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• Ancestry.com - U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patents, 1790-1909 $

  Original source: United States Patent and Trademark Office. USPTO Patent Full-Text and Image Database. < http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html > accessed January 2008. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office - Canadian Patents Database

  This database lets you access 92 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 2,100,000 patent documents.

• European Patent Office - Espacenet

  Search over eighty countries by number, classification, or key words.

• Google - Patent Search

  Search the full text of US Patents

  • Google - Advanced Patent Search

    Allows you to search by patent number, title, inventor, original assignee, current U.S. classification, international classification, patents with type/status, and by date.

• GOV.UK - Intellectual property - Patents

  For the United Kingdom.

• Government of Canada - CIPO's Canadian Patent Database

• History of the Patent Systen: hearings before the Committee on Patents ... - United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents - Google Books

  A free ebook.

• History of the United States Patent Office, Introduction

  The Patent Office Pony, A History of the Early Patent Office. By Kenneth W. Dobyns.

• Patently Historical

  This blog has posts related to historical patents, genealogy, history, and researcher-related product reviews.

• Patents of Invention as Genealogical Resources

  By Dawn Rohan, Patent and Trademark Depository Library, Wyoming State Library, Cheyenne, WY

• Records of the Patent and Trademark Office

  From The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

• The Legal Genealogist - 222 years of patent law

  By Judy G. Russell

• United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Patent and Trademark Resource Centers | USPTO

  • USPTO - Patent Full-Text Databases

    The full-text database contains all the 6.5 million US patents issued since 1790. In the form of searchable patent numbers and current US classifications hyperlinked to full-page images of each page of each patent.

• Using Patents as a Genealogy Resource

  By Amanda, the Social Media Coordinator at Geni.

• Wyoming Inventors

  The Wyoming Inventors database which indexes U.S. patents with Wyoming roots. Records date from 1867 to present.