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Searching for Patent Info on the Internet

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> Article reproduced from May 1997 issue of ISB News Report
> (http://www.nbiap.vt.edu)
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> SEARCHING PATENT INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET
> Ever since the U. S. Supreme Court upheld an award of a patent to
> Ananda Chakrabarty for a genetically engineered organism in 1980,
> patents have become an integral fuel driving the commercial
> biotechnology boom. Biotechnology researchers are actively patenting
> many new products and processes arising from their inventions. Patent
> application documents contain a wealth of descriptive information and
> are very useful to researchers and students wishing to keep up with the
> cutting-edge advances in biotechnology. While patent searches yield
> valuable information on technological breakthroughs, they are also
> necessary if you want to file a new patent application, avoid patent
> infringement and lawsuits, and explore licensing opportunities. Thanks
> to the Internet, now you can obtain patent information right at your
> desktop. You can conduct patent searches at no cost and retrieve full
> patent texts as email or downloadable documents. You can also have them
> faxed or mailed to you for a small fee. There are many patent-related
> Web sites with varying complexities and pricing and we list here few
> such sites.
> 
> - The National Agricultural Library of USDA has a Web page
>   (http://www.nal.usda. gov/bic/Biotech_Patents/) on U.S.
>   agricultural biotechnology patent issues with some excellent links
>   to patent resources. Full text of patents issued in agricultural
>   biotechnology during 1995 and 1996 is available.
> 
> - The Yahoo site (http://www.yahoo.com/ Law/Intellectual_Property/)
>   provides links to many resources such as companies, institutions,
>   magazines and newsgroups related to patenting.
> 
> - The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office's Web site
>   (http://www.uspto.gov/) lets you conduct no-cost searches using
>   key words, assignee, inventor, subject or patent number. The
>   database covers patents issued since 1976 and includes information
>   in the patent abstract, related patents and references.  Complete
>   documents can be ordered for a small price ($3 by mail).
> 
> 
> - The IBM Patent Server (http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/) holds two
>   million patents dating from 1971 and allows a free search. The
>   resulting displays contain abstracts, names of inventors, related
>   patent numbers, claims and references.  You can also view at no
>   cost the actual image of the first and last pages of patent
>   documents issued since 1980.  Printed full text copies can be
>   obtained through mail for $2.50 or through fax ($9 and up).
> 
> - Possibly the most useful site for patent searches is MicroPatent's
>   PatentWeb site (http://www.micropat.com/) which has many freebies
>   such as the ability to search and retrieve full text documents of
>   any U.S. patent issued during the past two weeks.  Another useful
>   feature is being able to obtain instantly, by email, any complete
>   patent document for $1.50. You can also download (for $3) original
>   patent documents with images which could be viewed immediately
>   using free software. Such documents may include figures such as
>   drawings of plasmid or equipment, and thus often provide
>   additional detailed information. MicroPatent site also delivers
>   International (EP and PCT) patent documents.
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Duncan McAlpine, Federal Way, WA   m*@eskimo.com
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