Full Record 

Vendor:

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Brief Description:

This freely accessible government database consists of the full text of U.S. patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant and SIR patents) from 1790 to the present.

Full Description:

The full text of a patent includes all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name, as well as the abstract, images, the full description of the invention, the claims, and cited references.

Update Frequency:

Weekly

Coverage:

1790 to present

Number & Type of Contents:

The database contains nearly 10,000,000 utility, design, and plant patents.

Simultaneous Users:

Database available without restriction.

Other IPFW Formats:

IPFW library owns the printed Index to the U.S. Patent Classification (Government Publications Reference and also CD-ROM C 21.12/2:, latest edition only); Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents (Government Publications and also CD-ROM C 21.5/6: 2002-present); Patents & Trademarks ASSIGN (CD-ROM C 21.31/13:, latest edition only); Patents BIB (CD-ROM C 21.31/2:, latest edition only); Patents ASSIST (CD-ROM C 21.31/5:, latest edition only); USAPAT (CD-ROM C 21.31:US 1996-1999); Patents CLASS (CD-ROM C 21.31/3:, latest edition only); Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the Consolidated Listing of Official Gazette Notices (Government Publications C 21.5/7:2001-2005); and U.S. Patent Classification Definitions (Microfiche C 21.3/2:, latest edition only).

Call Number:

Service Desk CD-ROM C 21.5/6:

Geographic Focus:

United States

Tools Available:

Full-Text Database Help
Tools to Help in Searching by Patent Classification
Inventor Resources
Patent Guides and Manuals

Type:

Patents & Trademarks

Subjects:

Architectural Engineering Technology, Arts & Humanities, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Civil Engineering & Civil Engineering Technology, Computer Engineering & Computer Engineering Technology, Computer Science, Construction Engineering Technology, Education, Electrical Engineering & Electrical Engineering Technology, Engineering, Technology, & Computer Science, General & Multidisciplinary, Government, Health Sciences & Medicine, Industrial Engineering Technology, Informatics, Information Systems, & Information Technology, Interior Design, Marketing, Mechanical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering Technology, Sciences & Mathematics, Social Sciences, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Visual Communication & Design

Liaison:

P. Sandstrom

URL:

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/