U. S. Patent and Trade Office

The need to defend paper examples arises rarely because few patents interfere with other grants. According to the U.S. Patent and Trade Office, about... 

To establish that your prospective supervisor and coworkers do publish their research, ask for copies of their publication lists, which should cite articles they wrote and the patents granted them. These lists demonstrate how often those scientists publish, while their articles and patents show that the results they report were obtained at the company where they work. The Author Indices of Chemical Abstracts also furnish this information. If you visit the Web site of the U.S. Patent and Trade Office (www.uspto.gov), you can search the Bibliographic Database by an inventor s surname to find the patents granted her. 

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The U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office (USPTO) database (http //patft.uspto.gov/) provides access to granted U.S. patents from 1976 and patent applications from March 2001. Patents can be viewed as text documents (without structures or diagrams) or as single-page images of the original document in TIFF format. Patents prior to 1976 and back to 1790 are available as TIFF images only. 

There is a considerable amount of literature dealing with hexaarylbiimidazoles (HABIs). References to these compounds were found in over 130 journal articles as shown in Chemical Abstracts (CA) there were about 1050 patents abstracted in Chemical Abstracts. Most significantly, a very large database exists in the issued (over 1200) and applied patents (over 500) that can be examined on the U.S. Patent and Trade Mark Office website. Several chapters in survey books describe various aspects of HABI Chemistry. 

Information concerning these names and the approval and acceptability of their use as coined common names for these specific chemicals has been filed by the society with the Trade-Mark Division of the U. S. Patent Office to pre-empt the use of the names as trademarks. 

U. S. Patents Quarterly, Decisions of the Patent Office and Courts in patent, trade-mark,... 

Pending issuance of the patent, an applicant may maintain the information in the application as a trade secret. Until the patent issues, the Patent and Trademark Office keeps all information about the patent application secret. 35 U.S.C. 122. Applications are not available to the public or to other inventors. However, once the patent issues, the application and supporting documents, as well as Patent and Trademark Office action on the application, are filed in the Patent and Trademark Office search room. Such disclosure ends trade secret protection over the disclosed information. 

US Patent and Trade Marks Office. U.S. patent activity calendar years 1790 to the present. http //www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/h counts.pdf. 2012. 

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