The Patent and Trademark collection is located on the first floor of the library. Please ask at the Information Desk for assistance in locating and using the materials. A computer workstation and printer are reserved solely for patent and trademark research. Available for use on this workstation are the CASSIS2 system and PubWEST, as well as internet access to the USPTO website. 

Patent document and trademark registration images are also available online at the USPTO website. A viewer must be downloaded before patent images can be accessed from this site. 

DVD and CD-ROM products available to use on the Cassis2 system:

• USAPat: facsimile images of U.S. patents 1790 to present. (DVD)
• USAApp: facsimile images of published U.S. patent applications 2001 to present. (DVD)
• USAMark: facsimile images of U.S. trademark registrations 1870 to present. (CD-ROM & DVD) (Note: USAMark contains all trademark registrations since 1870 while the TESS database on the USPTO website includes all live trademark registrations from 1884 to the present, live pending applications and all abandoned, cancelled or expired trademarks from 1984 to the present)
• Cassis2 Patents and Trademarks ASSIGN: U.S. patent, U.S. published patent application and U.S. trademark registration and U.S. trademark application assignments recorded at the USPTO from 1980-present.
• Cassis2 Patents BIB: selected bibliographic information from issued U.S. patents and published U.S. patent applications 1971 to present. (Note: The USPTO website has searchable bibliographic patent information only back to 1976)
• Cassis2 Patents CLASS: current classifications of U.S. patents and published U.S. patent applications 1790 to present.
• Cassis2 Patents ASSIST: full text of patent search tools
• Cassis2 Trademarks BIB: bibliographic information from abandoned, canceled, expired, pending and registered U.S. trademarks.
• Cassis2 Trademarks ASSIST: full text of trademark search tools
• eOG:P: Electronic Official Gazette: Patents: July 2, 2002 to present. (CD-ROM)
• Annual Index to Patents: 2001 - present  (DVD)

Microfilm/Microfiche/Paper Collections:

• Utility and design patents from 1963-1999 on microfilm
• Plant patents from 1931-1977 on color microfiche
• Plant patents on paper (color) from 1994-present
• Official Gazette: Patents from 1872 (vol. 1)-1893 (vol. 65) on microfilm
• Official Gazette: Patents from 1894 (vol. 66)-2002 (vol. 1262) in paper
• Index of Patents from 1906-1999 in paper (will be published through 2002 in paper), previous indexes are available in the U.S. Serial Set in the UI Government Documents collection.
• Official Gazette: Trademarks from 1971 (v. 883)-2005 (v.1291, issue 4) in paper
• Index of Trademarks from 1927-1997 in paper

Internet Collections via PubWEST:

• US Patents (USPT): full text of most patents issued from 1971 – present; patent number, publication date, and current classification information for all patents 1790 – present; titles of utility patents from 1920 – 1970 are also available in this file.
• US Optical Character Recognition (USOCR): Scanned, unedited copies of US patents issued between 1920-1970 and those from 1971-1976 missing from the USPT file.
• Pre Grant Publications (PGP): utility patent applications that have been pending for at least 18 months.
• European Patents (EPAB): published documents from the European Patent Office (EPO), selected EPO member countries (Switzerland, Germany, France, Great Britain), the US Patent Office, and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Starting dates for individual countries vary.
• Japanese Patents (JPAB): English language abstracts of unexamined Japanese patent applications, starting October, 1976
• Classification Reference Resources
• Classification Definitions
• Classifications Arranged Numerically
• Index to Classification
• International Patent Classification
• Locarno Classification
• Manual of Classification
• USPC to IPC Concordance

In addition, the library contains many other publications of interest to researchers and inventors. The core collection includes the Index to the U.S. Patent Classification, the Manual of Classification, the Official Gazette: Patents, the Official Gazette: Trademarks, Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Design Code Manual for Trademarks, annual indexes for both trademarks and patents, fee schedules, etc.

The resources in the Patent and Trademark collection do not circulate; however, there is a 2nd copy of many of the books not included in the core collection that can be checked out. Titles are included in the library catalog and include helpful resources such as:

• The Inventor's Notebook (T339.G75 2000)
• Nolo's Patents for Beginners (KF3114.6.P737 2001)
• Patent it Yourself (KF3114.6.P74 2002)
• Patent Searching Made Easy: How to do Patent Searches on the Internet and in the Library (T210.H58 2000)
• Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name (KF3180.Z9M28 2001)

More recent copies of many of these titles from Nolo Press are available as ebooks in the Ebrary collection available from the library website. UI personnel and students may access these ebooks both on-campus and remotely. Others may only access the ebooks from the library workstations.