March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent Information Part I – Patent overview & US Patents Part II – International & Trademarks

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Intellectual Property Copyright (LC) Trademarks (USPTO) Patents (USPTO) Trade Secrets

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patents What is a patent? Why search for patents? How are searches performed?

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 What is a patent? Roots in Constitution of United States –-Article 1, Section 8, clause 8 “…to promote the progress of science and the useful arts…”

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Granted US Patent “-…grants to the person having title to this patent the right to exclude others from making, using or selling the invention throughout the United States…” Claims define the patent Duration –20 years from date of application Fees

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent Application Invention must be: –Useful –Novel –Unobvious Defined in law 35 USC and court cases

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent Application Must contain: –Name of inventor –Enablement/Best Mode –Drawing –A Claim

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Priority Date patent application is received by 1 st patent office. For US – provisional application

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Types of Patents Utility Design Plants

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Basic Parts of a Patent Title Abstract Background Summary of invention Brief description of the drawing Detailed description Claims

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patenting process Have idea Reduce to practice Submit application to USPTO Wait

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Why search the patent literature? Technical information Legal Status Competitive Intelligence Patent family

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Technical Information State of the art Patentability Information

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Legal Status Infringement Validity, reexamination, fees

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Competitive Intelligence In what areas are companies researching? Who is inventing what?

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Searching for Information Subject Bibliographic Cited

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 USPTO Classification scheme

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Subject Oriented databases Chemical Abstracts –(STN – structure, Dialog, Questel-Orbit) DerWent World Patents Index –(STN, Dialog, Questel-Orbit USPatents Full Text (Dialog, STN) Claims

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Searching: Chemical – chemical structures –Chemical Abstracts –DerWent chemical code –Markush Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical –Can use words, International Patent Codes

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Bibliographic oriented databases Chemical Abstracts DerWent World Index Inpadoc

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent citation index Not like Web of Science Database of patents cited by applicant and examiner to justify application

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent help Patent tutorial Patent Information User Group (PIUG)

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Patent information via Internet Micropatent QPAT Chempats plus USPTO Delphion

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March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Some Patents In case you think patents are dry: –USD – boardgame –US – fireworks –Guardian Home Page, Feb 29, 2000 – Poet and casino waitress – attempting to become first person to patent herself!

March 2001SLIS/L624 – Spring 2001 Assignment Search SciFinder and find a US patent Access the USPTO website and look at the patent. –Find the claims –Find the description To access the image, you will need to download a plugin called AlternaTIFF