U.S. Patent and Trademark Search Tool

Patents
State of the art computer workstations provide automated searching of patents issued from 1790 to the current week of issue using the Examiner Automated Search Tool (EAST), the USPTO website, and other related applications. Full document text may be searched on U.S. patents issued since 1971 and OCR text from 1920 to 1970. U. S. patent images from 1790 to the present may be retrieved for viewing or printing. Some foreign patent documents may be searched using EAST. Official Gazettes, Annual Indexes (of Inventors), the U.S. Patents Quarterly (USPQ), the Manual of Classification and its subject matter index, and other search aids are available in various formats. Patent assignment records of transactions affecting the ownership of patents, and microfilmed deeds are also available to search.

Trademarks
Online searching of pending, registered, and dead trademarks is available using the trademark examining automated search systems X-Search, Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), Trademark Status and Document Retrieval (TSDR), Trademark Image Capture System (TICRS), the Trademark Reporting and Monitoring System (TRAM) and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board VUE (TTABVUE). A complete trademark registration collection is available online. A collection of trademark registrations bound paper volumes in numerical order form the first registered trademark to ones registered on July 12, 2018, is also available. Official Gazettes, trademark assignment records and transactions affecting trademark ownership and microfilmed deeds are also available.