If you don't know the number of the patent you want to check, you can search for patents by keywords, application number, or title. Check the date when the patent was first filed, using the ...

A patent search required hiring a lawyer or professional patent searcher at a cost of $500 or more--sometimes much more.

If you don't already know the patent number or application number, do an Internet search for the information; the Google Patents Advanced Search option is a useful tool.

It is, however, possible to obtain an image version of the first design patent by going to the Patent Search engine provided by the USPTO, searching D1 in a patent number search, and then clicking ...

After a patent number search demonstration on the USPTO website, it was the students’ turn to research. Students identified the patent title, inventor name (s) and the year the patent was issued and ...

This patent model demonstrates an invention for a plate printing press which was granted patent number 193097. The press bed was pulled by a continuous chain along a four-sided track, with stations ...

This model was filed with the application to the U.S. Patent Office for Patent Number 2,013 issued to John Ireland Howe on March 24, 1841. Howe’s invention was a design for an automated common pin ...

It is, however, possible to obtain an image version of the first design patent by going to the Patent Search engine provided by the USPTO, searching D1 in a patent number search, and then clicking ...