ECON 393 : Practicum in Entrepreneurship

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Finding Patents

Trademark Navigator
A comprehensive trademark prosecution tool that provides legal professionals with analysis, forms, charts, news, information about foreign jurisdictional requirements, TTAB cases, and other legal reference material.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. 1993 - present

The USPTO Patent Databases
Search the full text of patents 1976 - present; patents issued 1790 - 1975 are searchable by patent number or issue date. The Patent Application Database contains all patent applications published since 2001.
Espacenet
A free patent search tool, including 80 million patent documents from the European Patent Office, the USPTO, and other countries worldwide, searchable by full text.
WIPO PatentScope
World Intellectual Property Organization: PatentScope for Searching International and National Patent Collections
DOE Patents
From the 1940's to today... A central collection of US Department of Energy patent information

Bringing Your Invention to Market
How to Read a Patent (from Harvard University)
How to Read a Patent Specification
WIPO PCT FAQs
World Intellectual Property Organization: Protecting your Inventions Abroad: Frequently Asked Questions About the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)

For more resources, visit the guide on patents.