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US Patent Database

by  mloew  Posted    (Edited  )
To search for US patents and patent applications, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has the following database:

www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

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To view the tiff images on the USPTO website, it is recommended that you use the one of the viewers referenced on this page:


I copy the individual images to a Word document and save the entire patent electronically in either Word or as a PDF file.
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