Patent Office Library

Patent Office. Library. Subject list of works on chemistry. London H.M.S.O., 1911. iv, 214 p. 

The obituary went on to note that she also spent four nights per week attending classes at Borough Polytechnic, Chelsea Polytechnic, and the Cass Institute. In her spare time, she read and searched specifications at the Patent Office library. 

If a scientific library does not provide an online patent and literature service, the patent office library may be approached directly. Patent attorneys may also offer a patent search service. Furthermore, contacts with companies which are interested in the field may be established in order to use their patent information network. 

I. Digressions acad miques ou Essais sur quelques sujets de Physique, de Chimie d Histoire naturelle, 12°, Dijon, M.DCC.LXII (sic the Approbation at the end by Macquer is dated A Paris, ce 19 Mars 1772 pp. 3 7, 417 (index 385-417), Patent Office Library). Contains ... 

The main national libraries in Great Britain are the Science Museum Library, the National Lending Library for Science and Technology, and the Patent Office Library. The British Museum Library while being primarily a reference library for the humanities also has a considerable amount of scientific material. In the United... 

Other material from government and other agencies both in the United States and abroad. The Patent Office Library not only has enormous collections of American and foreign patent material but has extensive stocks of books and journals in science and technology which provide excellent services to the examiners of the Patent Office and to the general public. These services include the provision of translators. 

Periodicals in the Chemical Society Library (London, 1960), Hand List of Short Titles of Current Periodicals in the Science Library (London, 8th edn., 1956) and Periodical Publications in the Patent Office Library (London, 1958, Supplement 19W)). 

Current patents are listed in the Official Journal Patents) published every Wednesday. The OfficialJountal records complete specifications accepted and states the date when they will be open to inspection. Patents which have been amended, abandoned or become void are also listed. An alphabetical subject index of complete specifications accepted is provided and also a group allotment index which shows the group to which patents have been assigned. The OfficialJournal also records additions of books, pamphlets and periodicals to the Patent Office library. 

As the patent system harmonizes and more countries recognize the importance of patenting intellectual property, the value of patents grows. This leads to more people and companies seeking patents for even the most abstruse and maybe bizarre inventions. Patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office can be viewed in some large libraries or on the Web at www.uspto.gov. The following patents indicate there are no limits to human imagination ... 

Any serious research effort directed towards achieving a commercial reward and patent protection needs assistance from adequate information services. Besides the scientific literature, related patents and patent applications must be available and can be traced through patent data bases and patent libraries. Computerized patent data bases (Table 10) usually contain all front page information of a patent or patent application, such as patent number, applicant, inventor, filing and priority date, title of the invention and the abstract, in some cases also the patent claims. Full copies of selected patents can be ordered from national patent libraries or from the patent office. 

The desk top computer, via the Internet and such US compilations as delphion.com, or the various national patent office compilations, notably www.patent.gov.uk/, esp cenet and www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html/, provides access to patents, greatly aided in the author s case by the British Library paper and electronic systems. Patents provide useful literature references and access to the inventors basic thinking, right or wrong Patents, the author has found, are full of mistakes, inconsistencies and contradictions, which enable the reader to learn by comparison, and to sort out the quintessential information. See Appendix C, for an elementary patent search technique via the US Patent Office. 

The Industrial Property Digital Library of the Japanese Patent Office (JPO s IPDL http //www. ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg e.ipdl) provides access to Japanese patent document in Japanese text. However, for non-Japanese readers, instantaneous machine translations from Japanese to English of the full documents are available over the Internet from 1974 onwards. English abstracts are also available for recent patents. 

All but a dozen or so of the publications mentioned have been seen by the. author. Among the libraries which have been used are those of the British Museum and Patent Office in London, of the Universities of Cambridge London, and Manchester, the Cambridge Philosophical Society, some Departs mental Libraries in Cambridge, the Chemical and Geological Societies in London, and in the case of Russian publications the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of the British Commonwealth and the U.S.S.R., in London. The staffs of all the libraries have, without exception, rendered the most willing, courteous, and expert assistance to the author, and he cannot adequately thank them for this. 

Lindenmeyer, H. F., /. Patent Office Soc. 36, 463-81 (1954). What does the Patent Office scientific library have to offer the chemist ... 

The extensive collections of source material available in the Patent Office Search Room and Scientific Library have been summarized superbly by Linden-meyer 11). 

Actually, there is no other library in this country where it is practical to attempt a thorough search of foreign patents. And no publication other than the manual is known to the writer which contains a concise, yet comprehensive, account of the patent publications of foreign countries, together with an indication of those obtainable at the Patent Office. 

As indicated by the name, the Scientific Library of the Patent Office comprises far more than its vast collection of foreign patents. It is also an excellent library of science, both for the examining divisions of the Patent Office and for the public. The start was made in 1836, when Congress appropriated 1500 for the purchase of a library of scientific works and periodicals. Its predecessor in earlier years is stated to have been Thomas Jefferson s own collection of books. Increased appropriations would enable the filling of gaps and expansion of this valuable collection, and would constitute a wise investment. 

The Patent Office has available at the Scientific Library typewritten copies of a manual of classification of the French Patent Office (191), In this manual. Class XIV, Chemical arts, has the following subclasses ... 

Lindenmeyer, H. F., What Does the Patent Office Scientific Library Have to Offer the Chemist , Division of Chemical Literature, 125th meeting, ACS, Kansas City, Mo., March 31, 1954. 

To search the United States patent art, therefore, the first step is to examine the "Manual of Classification, together with the definitions furnished in the Classification Bulletins in order to determine, if possible, which classes will contain the art to be examined. The only classified sets of patents available to the public in this country are in the Patent Office search room in Washington. Some companies, therefore, maintain partial sets in their own libraries. These may be readily maintained by subscribing to the classes of special interest. In this way, copies of the patents classified by the Patent Office into these classes are automatically received. 

After the United States patents have been examined, the foreign patent art still remains to be covered. Here again the only sets of classified foreign patents available to the public are to be found in the Scientific Library of the United States Patent Office, which maintains both numerical and classified sets of patents from... 

AAany of the patent publications in the Scientific Library of the Patent Office are to be found in no other library in the United States —so starts the preface to the invaluable Manual of Foreign Patents ... 

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