1. Locating Chemical Patents (for free)

2. Three Types of Patents 4 utility 4 design 4 plant

3. What is patentable? 4 compound 4 method

4. What is not patentable? 4 nuclear weapons, atomic energy 4 laws of nature

5. Uses of Patent Literature 4 build upon technical foundations 4 commercial inventions often not published elsewhere 4 lay literature

6. What’s free? 4 www.uspto.gov 4 espacenet.com

7. Classification of Patents 4 USPC 4 IPC

8. Organic Compounds USPC 4 Carbon compounds, class 260 soon to be abandoned 4 Use Class 532-570 series

9. Inorganic Compounds 4 Class 423

10. Manual of Classification 4 Hormone replacement therapy –Hormones..sex 552/502+ http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classificati on/

11. Classification of Chemicals International (IPC) C = Chemistry/Metallurgy C01F5/30 Organic compounds of Magnesium Chloride

12. Patent Technology Centers http://www.uspto.gov/web/info/pat-tech.htm –1600 Biotechnology and Organic Chemistry –1700 Chemical and Materials Engineering

13. Patent Families 4 espacenet 4 match on inventor’s name

14. Trademarks 4 Can go from the trademark database to the patent database by noting the assignee and approximate year.

15. Chemical Formulae 4 Espacenet “Mg(OH)2” –use caps and quotes 4 USPTO Mg(OH)2 –caps

16. Fee-based services 4 Derwent 4 CAS 4 Dialog 4 STN 4 Questel