Electronic Resources

• Basic Guide and Index for Patent, Trademark and Copyright Information and Search

  This web site contains a collection of basic reference information on Patent, Copyright and Trademark.
  pw1.netcom.com/~patents2/thefirm.html

• Code of Federal Regulations Title 37
  

  The site is the latest edition of Federal Regulation Code on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights.
  www.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/cfrassemble.cgi?title=200237

• Patents and Trademarks -- Selected Internet Resources

  This website contains selected online resources about patents and trademarks.
  www.chipublib.org/008subject/009scitech/patents.html

• Patents Application

  This web site provides information for filing a patent application.
  pw1.netcom.com/~patents2/Further%20Patent%20Information.htm

• Patent Law

  www.law.cornell.edu/topics/patent.html

• Patent Searching
  

  This site has been created, in order to determine whether your idea can be patented. pw1.netcom.com/~patents2/Patent%20Searching%20Made%20Easy%20for%20the%20NonLawyer.htm

• Provisional Application for Patent

  Since June 8, 1995, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has offered inventors the option of filing a provisional application for patent which was designed to provide a lower-cost first patent filing in the United States and ... . To access a copy of this application visit this site.
  www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/provapp.htm

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Library

  This site was produced by the Illinois State Library, in order to provide technical information that frequently cannot be found elsewhere concerning U.S. patents and trademarks as well as to provide general information concerning U.S patents and trademarks.
  www.cyberdriveillinois.com/library/isl/ref/ptdlp.html

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  

  This webpage was created by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to provide general information about Patents and trademarks. www.uspto.gov

Print Materials on Patents:

Gordon, Thomas T. and Cookfair, Arthur S. Patent Fundamentals for Scientists and Engineers. 2nd ed. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 2000.

Hitchcock, David.Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo.com, 2000.

Insight Information Inc. Patent Protection for Business Processes: Developing Effective Strategies. Toronto: Insight Press, 1999.

Nolff, Markus. Trips, PCT and Global Patent Procurement. Boston: Kluwer Law International, 2001.

Pfeffer, Martin. Fundamentals of Patent Prosecution: A Boot Camp for Claim Drafting & Amendment Writing. New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 2001.

Pressman, David. Patent It Yourself. 9th ed. Berkeley: Nolo Press, 1997.

Westerlund, Li. Biotech Patents: Equivalence and Exclusions Under European and U.S. Patent Law. New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002.

White, Jesse. Secretary of State and State Librarian. The United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program at the Illinois State Library, 2001.