Who Needs Patent Info at Your Library? They’re Not Just for Engineers!

Enhance your public, academic, and school library reference services with the wealth of information found in patent records for:

• Genealogy and local history
• Antiquing
• Business planning & policy
• Investing
• Primary source historiography
• STEM education
• Inventors, entrepreneurs, & manufacturers
• Visual designers
• Professional growers
• Community & institutional reputation

This training session will focus on open-access online resources for U.S. patent research. We will cover tips and tricks for getting more relevant, useful, and interesting search results. We will also identify selected international patent resources available in English. 

The workshop will be divided into three parts; participants are welcome to attend one or more part.

1. Teaching & learning with patents. Kid-ventors, patenting process, invention in national & local history and culture (1:00 – 1:50)
2. Finding specific patents for local and family history; tracking “mystery” inventions; identifying power inventors and company patent portfolios; supporting inventors and entrepreneurs in your community or university (2:00 – 2:50)
3. Finding “prior art”; using patent classification systems to get focused results (a natural for librarians!); connecting with the inventor community; non-patent IP strategies (3:00 – 3:50)

At the conclusion of the training, you will be able to:

• Locate, parse, and download any U.S. Patent on record from 1790 to this week
• Use field-searching tools to narrow results
• Support the inventors and innovators your library serves
• Offer high-quality free, open-access patent resources to your users
• Market library services to your community, institution, and supporters

This is a free, in person, hands on session taking place on Wednesday, March 29 from 1 pm to 4 pm in the computer lab at the Middletown Library Service Center, 786 South Main Street, Middletown, CT.

To register for this free workshop, visit https://cslib.libcal.com/event/3192257

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Regards,

Steve

Stephen Cauffman | requestIT CT Coordinator, Division of Library Development

stephen.cauffman@ct.gov | Office: (860) 704-2223

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