US Applications - from Alain Miville -Reply

Roy Zimmermann (roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com)
Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:07:54 -0500

US patent applications, under current law, are not published with the
limited exception of inventions in which the US government has rights or
interest, such as inventions by government employees or research done
under government contract. In some cases, the government makes public
its inventions prior to grant for the purposes of promoting interest in
licensing of those inventions. I believe Chemical Abstracts indexes
chemically oriented US government published patent applications, but
the most complete source is the NTIS database. Section heading 90
covers Government Inventions for Licensing. The descriptor phrase
Patent Applications is also used for some but not all of those records,
as is the identifier: NTISGPN. On DIALOG, the following search
retrieves approximately 40,200 references:

S SH=90? or NTISGPN or patent applications

Some government agencies, e.g., NASA, also publish periodic
bibliographies of their patent applications & patents. Here's an
example for your consideration:

NTIS Accession Number: N19990009746
NASA Patent Abstracts: A Continuing Bibliography, Supplement 54
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Hampton, VA.
Langley Research Center.
Corp. Source Codes: 019041001; ND210491
Report No.: NAS 1.21:7039/SUPPL54; NASA/SP-1999-7039/SUPPL54
Jan 99 47p
Languages: English Document Type: Bibliography; Patent

Roy Zimmermann
Patent Information Specialist
612-514-3304
roy.zimmermann@medtronic.com

>>> Bill Murray <billmurray2@hotmail.com> 06/15/99 05:48am >>>
Non-member submission from [Alain Miville de Chjne
<Infodev@compuserve.com>]

Are US patent applications publically published before the patent is
issued? If so, when and where to search these?

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