US Patent and Trademark Office USPTO

Most of the equivalent patents are incorporated in the discussion, to give a sense of the international coverage to the reader. A summary of the main claim is included as a definition of the property subject matter. As could be seen the property subject matter of a World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent generally, is identical to one of the corresponding US patent (from the US Patent and Trademark Office, USPTO). However, in some instances a WIPO patent has more than one US equivalent patent. The equivalence between WIPO and US patents will be discussed for each particular case wherever relevant. 

The legal community of internal legal counsel, third-party firms and the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is increasing its involvement in the issue. As the scientific community reacts to the availability of electronic laboratory notebook solutions, the pressure on internal counsel to form an opinion increases. Sometimes, the reaction of internal counsel is to seek external advice as well as look to the US PTO for possible rulings. ... 

According to this methodology, we extracted information on patent applications filed at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and at the European Patent Office (EPO) during the five-years period 1993-1997. Patent data were collected from the database available on the Web, in the case of USPTO patents, and from the Mimosa-Access database, in the case of EPO patents. In both databases, we considered only those environmental patents belonging to agents coming fi om the US, Japan and 16 European countries. ... 

Patent, utility A document issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that grants exclusive use of a process, product, or composition of material in the United States to the holder of the patent for a period of 20 years after the first filing date. 

Server (www.patent.womplex.ibm.com) which gives access to over 26 years of US patent specifications the UK Patent Office (www.patent.gov.nk) the US Patent and Trademark Office (www.uspto.gov) and Biotechnology and US patents (www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech-Patents). 

The US Patent and Trademark Office web patent database (http //www.uspto.gov/patft/) provides access to both the US Patent Bibliographic database, which includes bibliographic data from 1976 to the present and the AIDS Patent database, which includes the full text and images of AIDS-related patents issued by the US, European and... 

There are various general sites for patents, such as that from the US Patent and Trademarks Office about patents and patenting procedures (http //www.uspto.gov/web/ offices/pac/doc/general/). Another site is http //users. pandora.be/synthesis/wpatent.html, which contains general information on patents and a list of useful hypertext references. Various other useful bits of information about patent terms and procedures in other countries are available from Derwent (http //www.derwent.com/). A comparison table of web patent databases from Duke University is presented by the university library to help users compare the various resources available and assess which is best for each individual s needs (http //www.lib.duke.edu/chem/ patcomp.htm and at http //www.lib.duke.edu/reference/ subjects/patents.htm). 

Relevant portions of the US Patent Trademark Office s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) available at http //www.uspto.gov/web/ offices/pac/mpep/index.htm and of the European Patent Office Guidelines for Examination (EPO Guidelines) available at http //www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guiex/e/foreword.htm are also referenced. 

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