Patents¶
Searching Patents¶
United States Patent and Trademark Office Full-Text Databases: http://patft.uspto.gov/
Google Patents: https://www.google.com/?tbm=pts&hl=en
If you are not familiar with searching patents, read the following web pages:
- Follow the Avoiding Intellectual Property Problems link to Franklin Pierce Law Center that provide introduction to intellectual property, including patents: http://www.rpi.edu/web/comec/patent.html
- The following page prepared by the library contains many useful information/links for searching patents: http://library.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=398
Reading Patents¶
Article 7 in the following book is a good tutorial for reading patents:
Title Successful patents and patenting for engineers and scientists / edited by Michael A. Lechter ... (et al.)
Published New York : IEEE Press, c1995.
Library Call # KF3114.8.E54 S83 1995
Prior Arts¶
Prior Art and Its Uses: A Primer by Theodore C. McCullough, Copyright © 2006 Theodore C. McCullough
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License
Patents awarded for Design Lab work¶
- 7,241,105 - Watercraft with vertically collapsible vertical axis wind turbine and propeller flexible drive shaft
- 7,669,863 - Walker with lift-assisting seat assembly
- 8,696,478 - Dasher board assembly
- 8,845,556 - Method and apparatus for body balance and alignment correction and measurement
- 9,308,065 - Tooth cleaning mechanism
- 9,271,858 - Variable modulus body brace and body brace system
- 10,029,168 - Enhanced Safety Dasher Board Assembly
- 10,507,356 - Portable and stowable vertical knee raise exercise apparatus and system
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