Patents and Trademarks

"Meeting the needs of the future" Excellent resource for anyone interested in the invention process. .

These links provide access to other patent offices, innovation resources, patent information user groups, etc.

TTU Office provides a wide variety of services for Texas Tech faculty and staff and selected off-campus customers for developing their intellectual property.

Provides U.S. and international patent searching

"Google Patents includes over 120 million patent publications from 100+ patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books, and documents from the Prior Art Archive."

" A free public resource for patent system navigation worldwide".

Links to patent searching including 7 Step Strategy and self-paced patent searching tutorial

Links to information about what trademarks are; searching marks online; checking trademark application status; etc.

Links to searching trademarks, including Basic Word Mark and Design Mark, browsing Trademark dictionary, etc.