Re: Re: patent pending/patents us & international
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Posted by M. Arthur Auslander on September 07, 1999 at 04:55:26:
In Reply to: Re: patent pending/patents us & international posted by Kevin Allen on September 06, 1999 at 17:17:00:
: We have a patent pending at this time and
: I was trying to search the internet to
: follow up on the patent and make sure there
: is a patent out there for our invention, I
: a have not had any luck finding it. Can you
: help? Thank you, Kevin Allen
If there is a patent "out there" it may preclude your patent, or its validity. I am not aware of any world data base on patents. There are two US datebases on the net that I know of. There is a US database and an IBM dateabase. These don't go back beyond 1971 or so. They give a good idea about the state of the art but without the whole view there minght be older patents which impinge on the are. The USPTO has about 50 public libraries about the country with fully acess to the pattent database. Using the library is still not quite as good as a professional search at the Patent Office where there is also more not patent data available for searching. Physically the USPTO is better set up for patent searching. I frankly use as professional searcher going into the USPTO to do my searching. As a start to what you are looking for, click on the "Patent Page" of this forum.
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