Patent searching for librarians and inventors / Timothy Lee Wherry.
1995
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Author
Title
Patent searching for librarians and inventors / Timothy Lee Wherry.
Published
Chicago : American Library Association, 1995.
Call Number
T210 .W44 1995
ISBN
0838906419 (acid-free paper)
Description
viii, 89 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)31411593
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 73) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Ch. 1
The World of Patents
1
Successful Patents
3
Patent Terms and Concepts
12
Patent Types
12
Copyright
13
Trademark
13
Requirements for Patenting
14
Patent Examiners
15
Patent Pending
15
Patent Expiration
15
Patentee and Assignee
16
Reissued Patents
17
Ch. 2
Misconceptions and Myths about Patents
18
Risks and Rewards
18
Assigning and Licensing Patents
20
Withholding Manufacture
21
International Patents
22
Models
23
Closing the PTO
24
Patenting by Amateurs
24
Frivolous and Unusual Patents
25
Ch. 3
Search Procedure: Discovering the Field of Search
32
Step One: Identifying the Parts of an Invention
33
Step Two: Searching the Index to the U.S. Patent Classification
34
Step Three: Using the Manual of Classification
38
Step Four: Defining Classifications
42
Ch. 4
Search Procedure Continued: Discovering the Prior Art
46
Step Five: Reviewing the Subclass List
46
Step Six: Locating Patents by Number
50
Step Seven: Examining Patent Claims
54
Summary of the Process
56
Ch. 5
Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, and Trade Secrets
59
Applying the Concepts of Intellectual Property
60
Copyright
60
Design Patents
61
Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
62
Trademarks and Trade Secrets
63
Ch. 6
Patents as an Information Source
65
Pointing Out New Directions in Research
66
Knowing What Needs to Be Invented, But Not How to Do It
67
New Uses for Existing Technologies
68
Waiting for Devices to Be Invented
68
Finding What Is Patentable
69
Predicting Growth Industries
70
Examples of Delays in Technology Transfer
71
Advantages of Patents as a Research Tool
72
Bibliography
73
Appendix I: Thirty Often Asked Questions and Their Answers for the Amateur Inventor
75
Appendix II: Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries in the United States
79
Appendix III: Patent Documents in Federal Depository Libraries
85
Index
87