-Patent Searching

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.

Medical Device Manufacturers Association – Patent Issues

How do I find International patents?

The Intellectual Property Digital Library Web site provides access to intellectual property data collections hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization. These collections include PCT (Patents), Madrid (Trademarks), Hague (Industrial Designs), Article 6ter (State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, and Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) and others.

See Technology Commercialization at Drexel and See Patent Policy (Re: Intellectual Property) from the Office of the Provost at Drexel University.

Patent Protection Strategies: Maximizing market exclusivity (Note: Search in ‘Business Insights’ database and use keyword ‘patent’ to locate this and other reports on patents)

Nanotechnology related initiatives

FDA’s Nanotechnology Task Force
National Nanotechnology Initiative
Nanomedicine from NIH

Nanotechnology to revolutionise drug delivery
Cancer nanotechnology: opportunities and challenges

Dr. Papazoglou’s Electronic Book – Bionanotechnology – available from the Synthesis Digital Library

Important Key words in Drug Delivery and Nanotechnology:

Nasal and transdermal drug delivery, Injectable drugs, Implantable delivery systems, Nanocapsules, Nanoparticles, Nanovehicles, Nanomedicine, Oral drug delivery system, Controlled drug delivery, Cancer nanotechnology

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Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Bioinstrumentation

Bioinstrumentation
Biomedical Engineering Instrumentation
Medical and Instrumentation
Sensors and Handbook
Biomedical and Devices
Medical and Sensors
Pressure and Flow and Measurements
Cardiovascular and Devices

To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching and using the term ‘Biomedical Engineering’

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

AccessMedicine
Books@OVID
ebrary
Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
ENGnetBASE
Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
MATERIALSnetBASE
NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE

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BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies. The information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.

Access: BuildingGreen Suite or go to Databases by Title page an click on BuildingGreen  Suite.

Building Green also provides access to High Performance Building database that provides access to case studies of projects ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods. See ‘Using High Performance Building Database’ for more information on how to search this database.

The BuildingGreen.com LIVE blog is the place for real-time event coverage, reviews,and latest news from atest news from all over the green building world. You can find entries such as Putting wind turbines on buildings doesn’t make sense

BiologicalInformatics.info is a Subject Tracer Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for biological informatics (health informatics, neuroinformatics, biodiversity informatics and biomolecular informatics.

Examples include: DNA From the Beginning
Genome Gateway, Institute of Neuroinformatics, and Patent Lens – Patent Informatics and Analysis Component of the BIOS Initiative among many others.

The Drexel University Libraries, with support from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), will present The 5th Annual Scholarly Communication Symposium titled: Scholar2Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication. Join us to discuss how Web2.0 is changing scholarship. Dr. Jean-Claude Bradley will give a presentation, followed by a panel discussion featuring: Andre Brown, Nicole Engard, James Mitchell, Banu Onaral, Beth Ritter-Guth, and Scott Warnock. Small round-table discussions will follow. An optional Dutch-treat lunch concludes the day.

Date: Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Time: 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Bossone

For more information:
Drexel University Libraries’ Scholarly Communication Symposium: Scholar 2 Scholar: How Web 2.0 is Changing Scholarly Communication

To register:
Registration Form

Our Wiki:
Scholar2scholar

You will need to create your account in Wikispaces (if you do not have one) by clicking on ‘Join’ in the top right corner. Use your username and password you created to join our scholar2scholar wikispace.
(Note: Please try to use something resembling your real names as usernames)

Do not forget to explore our evolving section – Further reading on Web 2.0

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories.

As well as providing a simple repository list, OpenDOAR lets you search for repositories or search repository contents. Additionally, we provide tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure. Further explanation of these features is given in a project document Beyond the list.

Browse through Nanotechnology related papers archived: OpenDOAR Nanotechnology

Drexel’ E-Repository and Archives - iDEA is also indexed in the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories.

ScienceDirect RSS feeds allow you to see when new articles, new cited references, citations or search results are available on ScienceDirect.

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based syndication format for distributing content on the Web. ScienceDirect offers XML-based feeds so you can receive updates on your desktop of all newly loaded content matching your RSS criteria. Each feed contains links to articles on ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect content is refreshed every day. ScienceDirect feeds are in RSS 2.0 format.

For more information, please see: About RSS and refer to the section on ‘Subscribing to an RSS Feed’.

For more detailed information on RSS feeds, see ‘Blogging as a tool: innovative approaches to information access’ and ‘Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries’ . Please refer to the section ‘What is RSS? How does it work? What is a feedreader?’ to help understand what RSS feeds are and how they can help you in keeping uptodate with new research information available from a variety of electronic databases available from the Drexel University Libraries.

NIST Data Gateway-provides easy access to many (currently over 80) of the NIST scientific and technical databases. These databases cover a broad range of substances and properties from many different scientific disciplines.

See NIST Scientific and Technical Databases

Some useful data sites include:

Biometrics
Biotechnology
Chemical Kinetics
Construction
Environmental Data
Fire
Industrial Fluids and Chemical Engineering
Materials Properties
Physical Reference Data
Thermophysical and Thermochemical

NIST also provide access to NIST Chemistry webBook and NIST Ceramics webbook. Updates on NIST databases are also available with RSS feeds.

With the new Google Patent Search tool, one can search across more than 7 million patents. Each Google Patent Search result represents an individual patent. Click on the patent image to access full patent. It displays results based on their relevance to the specific search terms entered. One can also see number of details about each patent in the list of results. These include: patent title, U.S. patent number, filing date, assignee name, patent snippet, patent summary, claims, and drawings. ‘Search within this patent’ option is available to search the text of an individual patent for specific keywords and phrases. it also lists other patents that were cited by the patent described on the page and lists other patents that reference the patent described on the page.

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO – from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. It does not currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but we look forward to expanding our coverage in the future

See About Google Patents for more information.

See Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching for comparison between the USPTO search and the Google search of the number of documents that show up for each year in a ten year period for the use of the word. See also Resourceshelf site to learn more about what Google Patents does not cover.

The Computing Reviews blog lets you know about the latest Computing Reviews news. Here, you can find out about new features on the site, featured reviewers, the latest Hot Topics essay (and sneak peeks of those to come), conferences, and more. Computing Reviews helps you identify the best new books and articles across all areas of computer science.

Computing Reviews can be accessed from the ACM Digital Library or the ACM Guide to Computing Literature from the Electronic Databases by Title page. Click on ‘Computing Review’. See ‘Computing Reviews Search Tips’ for more assistance on various features available in this database.