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Entrepreneurship

This guide includes resources for those studying and conducting research in the field of entrepreneurship

Google Patents

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a great place to start a preliminary patent search

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Additional Patent Guides

This page is just the tip of the Patent Searching iceberg. Visit these other guides for additional information:

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USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office)

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Full text of all U.S. patents (keyword searchable) from 1976 to date, and published patent applications from March 2001 to date. Patents from 1790-1975 are image files, and searchable only by patent number, issue date, and current classification.

CPC Classifications
Browse or search the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) system

Espacenet - from the European Patent Office

Other Free Patent Databases

Patent Lens This link opens in a new window
Search and display results of nearly 95% of the world’s patent information.
Patentscope This link opens in a new window
Search 73 million patent documents including 3.5 million published international patent applications.

DOE Patents
a searchable database of patent information resulting from DOE-sponsored R&D.

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Subjects: Business, MBA, Patents & Trademarks

Tags: entrepreneurship, MBA, patents, trademarks