A collection of handouts and guides to patent and trademark resources created by members of the Patent and Trademark Library Association.

If you have a handout or web tutorial that you would like to share, please send an email with a link to your handout on the Internet, or send an attachment with a text file of your document to Martin Wallace, Martin_Wallace@umit.maine.edu

USPTO Website Guide (Tom Melvin, University of Delaware, 2007)

Black Inventors by State or Country of Residence, 1834-2008, Index (Margaret J. Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008). Also available as an MS Excel Spreadsheet.

Canadian Patent Number Guide (Mike White, Queen's University, 2008)

ECLA - European Patent Classification Guide (Mike White, Queen's University, 2008)

Early U.S. Patent Data in the United States Serial Set (Dave Morrison, University of Utah, 2002)

Elephant Patents (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2006)

Finding U.S. Patents (Peter Kirlew, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006)

Illinois African American Women Inventors 1885-2004 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Index to Inventors from Hardin County (Illinois): 1863-1900 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Index to Inventors from Pope County (Illinois): 1869-1900 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Index to Inventors from Vermillion County (Illinois): 1835-1900 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2009)

New York African American Inventors From 1867-2008, Index (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Patently Black: An Exhibit of Black Images Appearing on United States Patents 1864-1949 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, Rev. Aug. 2008)

Patents of Invention as Genealogical Resources (v.2) (PPT) (PDF) (Dawn Rohan, Wyoming State Library, Updated 2009)

Presidents' Day Design Patent (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

PTDL LIST: Patent Search Checklist (Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska, 2007)

Patented Turkeys: 1883-1961 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2007)

Santa Claus Patents - 1883-1975 (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2007)

Searching the Full-Text Database at http://www.uspto.gov (Jan Comfort, Clemson University, 2004)

Searching the USPTO Web Pages for Bioengineering and Medical Patents (PPT)  (PDF) (Dave Morrison, University of Utah, 2004)

Selected Early Asian Patentees From Illinois: An Index In Celebration of Asian Heritage Month (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Specialized Patent Databases Handout (Dawn Rohan, Wyoming State Library, 2009)

Taming the Waist: A Patent Exhibit At the Illinois State Library (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2007)

Ulysses S. Grant Related Patents (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2007)

U.S. Patent Classification Guide - Classes by Title (Mike White, Queen's University, 2006)

U.S. Patent Number Guide (Mike White, Queen's University, 2008)

Virginia African American Inventors From 1880-2006, Index (Margaret Collins, Illinois State Library, 2008)

Searching the Trademark Database (TESS) at http://www.uspto.gov (Jan Comfort, Clemson University, 2004)

1965-2007 Trademark Database (TESS) Coverage Chart (Mike White, Queen's University, 2008)

U.S. Trademark Number Guide (Mike White, Queen's University, 2008)

Copyright, Domain Names, Patents, and Trademarks:Intellectual Property Websites and Resources (Rae Shepherd-Shlechter, Louisville Free Public Library, 2005)

Business Information Resources from Kentucky and the Federal Government (Rae Shepherd-Shlechter, Louisville Free Public Library, 2005)

From Dreams to Dollars Outline (John Schlipp, Northern Kentucky University, Steely Library, 2005)

From Dreams to Dollars Bibliography (John Schlipp, Northern Kentucky University, Steely Library, 2005)