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Patent literature is a hidden resource not only for scientific and technical information but genealogical and historical information as well. The U.S. Patent Collection represents a huge body of primary source material spanning the history of the nation from 1790 to present. From dating an antique to finding an ancestor to studying the history of an invention, there are many ways to use the historical data found in U.S. patents.
U.S. PATENTS
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program. Name and Date Patents: July 31, 1790 - July 2, 1836. Washington, DC: PTDLP, 1999. Index to the X patents in chronological order
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, DC: GPO, 1837 - 1920. Indexed by patentee, assignee, and invention
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Index of Patents issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 3 vols. Washington, DC: GPO, 1920 to present (annual, print + CD). Indexed by patentee, assignee, and invention
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents. Washington, DC: GPO, 1872 to present (weekly, print + CD). Indexed by patentee, assignee, and invention
Subject-Matter Index of Patents for Inventions Issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790 to 1873, inclusive, 3 vols. 1874. Reprint, North Stratford, NH: Ayers Co. Publishers, 2000. Indexed by subject of invention, not patentee
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Database. http://www.uspto.gov
Scanned patent images 1790 - Present; pre-1976 patents searchable only by patent number or classification
BRITISH PATENTS
Woodcroft, Bennet. Alphabetical Index of Patentees of Inventions, 1617 - 1852. Reprint, London: Evelyn, Adams & MacKay, 1969. Index to British patents, includes Colonial America, alphabetical by patentee
U.S. PATENTS (BY REGION)
Alabama Inventors Database
http://bpldb.bplonline.org/db/inventors
Database of patents created by the Birmingham Public Library
Historical Idaho Patents Database
http://db.lib.uidaho.edu/patents/
Database of patents created by the University of Idaho Library
Iowa Inventions Database
http://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/cgi-bin/patents/
Database of patents created by the Iowa State Library, Coverage: 1843-2008
Index to Early Louisiana Patents, 1810 - 1890
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/shocker/LAPAT/
Database of patents created by Miami University Libraries
Miami Valley Inventors: A Historical Database, 1814-1875
http://www.libraries.wright.edu/find/gov/patent/inventors/
Database created by Wright State University of Ohio inventors
Nevada Inventors Database
http://www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/subjects/guides/government/nevada/nvinventors.html
Database of patents created by the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
Oklahoma Inventors Database, 1880 - 1907
http://okinventors.library.okstate.edu
Database of patents created by Oklahoma State University
South Carolina Inventors, 1796 - 1896
http://sys.lib.clemson.edu/scinventors/search.asp
Database of patents created by Clemson University Libraries
Wyoming Inventors Database
http://cowgirl.state.wy.us/inventors/
Database of patents created by the Wyoming State Library, Coverage: 1867 - present
From Air Brakes to Zinc Furnaces: Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Patentees 1790 - 1879
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/research/pittsburgh/patentees/
Database of patents created by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Cincinnati Inventors Database
http://www.cincinnatilibrary.org/resources/invent/
Database of patents issued to Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio Inventors from 1813 - 1873
SPECIALIZED DATABASES
U.S. Alien Property Custodian Documents Database
http://db.library.queensu.ca/apcdocuments/
Database of bibliographic data for WWII patent applications that were seized by the Alien Property Custodian in 1942 and published by the Patent Office in 1943
Confederate Patent Office
http://www.myoutbox.net/popchapx.htm
List of Patents issued by the Confederate Patent Office, 1861 - 1864
Directory of American Tool and Machinery Patents
http://www.datamp.org/
Searchable database of 40,000 antique tool and woodworking machine patents
Name Changes in Patents Database
http://will.state.wy.us/sis/ptdl/namechange/index.html
United States patents in which a personal name change is specifically identified
Women Inventors Index, 1790 - 1895
http://staff.lib.muohio.edu/~shocker/FemInv/
Database created by the Miami University Libraries
Patents Issued to Wyoming Women
http://will.state.wy.us/sis/ptdl/women.html
List compiled from the Wyoming Inventors Database
For assistance with any of these resources, contact Karen Kitchens.
Wyoming State Library
Patent and Trademark Depository Library
2800 Central Avenue
Cheyenne, WY 82002
ptdl@state.wy.us
307-777-7281
2/2009
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