Patents & Trademarks

The Boley Law Library is no longer a United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library (now called Patent and Trademark Resource Centers).

Visit the USPTO Contact Center site for help with Patent and Trademark research and for related information. There you'll find the USPTO Customer Support Center phone number, email addresses and other resources.

Patent and Trademark research may be completed online at the web site of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

If you are new to Patent searching, a good starting point is the PTDL 7-Step Strategy. The seven listed steps include links to search tools that help you with your search.

If you are new to Trademark searching, a good starting point is the Introduction to the Trademark Electronic Search System.