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Virginia Commonwealth University Patent Services
http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/govdocs/patents.html Designated a Patent and Trademark Depository Library in 1985, the only such collection in the state of Virginia, VCU's Patent Depository contains copies of every utility patent issued since 1790 and every design patent issued since January 1973. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov/ Contains information on the patent and trademark process, and some online patent searching.
http://www.epo.org/index.html Contains over 30 million patent documents. World International Property Organization http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en Contains information about WIPO and its 182 member states and the administration of 23 international treaties dealing with various aspects of intellectual property protection. Page Coordinator: Nancy Schafer nschafer@odu.edu This URL: http://www.lib.odu.edu/subjectguides/page.phtml?page_id=42  http://www.lib.odu.edu/subjectguides/page_rss.phtml?page_id=42 |