Patent & Trademark Teaching Tools
Presentations & Exercises
Effective Patent Searching Everywhere
- Presentation at the North Carolina Libraries Association meeting, 10/2007, to provide guidance for librarians about how to help patent seachers.
- 36 slides; detail on patent searching strategy begins on slide #10
Handouts
Patent Searching Strategy
- Excerpted slides from above presentation
 Spectrum of Product Development Resources
- Developed by staff of NCSU Libraries' Textiles Library
- Web site version of one-page handout (contact staff for hardcopies)
Researching trends in patent databases
- Strategies for researchers wanting to track trends in the development of a technology
- Provides specific tips on using the features of patents to trace advances
7-Step Patent Searching Strategy
- USPTO's handout
- One page
- Does NOT cover non-patent literature searching (see slide #30 in Effective Patent Searching presentation above)
Others from the PTDLA
- various handouts created by members of the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association
For Reference
USPTO's Glossary
Historical Patent and Trademark Databases
USPTO's Database of Sound Trademarks
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