Patents for Business Research: Specialized USPTO Databases

Published each Tuesday in electronic form only, and contains bibliographic text and a representative drawing from each patent issued that week.

Provides USPTO patent examiners, applicants, attorneys, agents, and representatives of applicants with a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to the prosecution of patent applications before the USPTO.

This listing consists of patent numbers that do not correspond to issued patents, which are referred to as "withdrawn patent numbers."

This listing consists of Pre-Grant Publication (PGPub) numbers that have been withdrawn. Numbers that have been withdrawn subsequent to publication are followed by an asterisk (*)

Notices are published in the Official Gazette

Information regarding status for issued patents or published patent applications. The easiest way to access a published application is to input the patent application number in the Publication number field, being sure to include the suffix A1.