

The Electronic Official Gazette allows users to browse through the issued patents for the current week. Your nearest Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) maintains local search resources and may offer training in patent search techniques.

Patent and Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs) Trained staff are available to assist public users. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Public Search Facility located in Alexandria, VA provides the public access to patent and trademark information in a variety of formats including on-line, microfilm, and print. The Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system provides IP customers a safe, simple, and secure way to retrieve and download information regarding patent application status.

Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) This service also provides Office Action Indicators to help users identify applications that contain office actions, a Collections View for saving documents and applications for review later on in the session, and the ability to download the documents in an application. Through this secure service, users have access to the file histories of related applications from participating IP Offices, which currently include the IP5 Offices.īy using this service, users can see the patent family for a specific application, containing all related applications filed at participating IP Offices, along with the dossier, classification, and citation data for these applications. Global Dossier is a set of business services aimed at modernizing the global patent system and delivering benefits to all stakeholders through a single portal/user interface. The new, powerful, and flexible capabilities of the application will improve the overall patent searching process. Patent Public Search has two user selectable modern interfaces that provide enhanced access to prior art. The Patent Public Search tool is a new web-based patent search application that will replace internal legacy search tools PubEast and PubWest and external legacy search tools PatFT and AppFT.

