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how can one search US patent number corresponding to the event name such as MON810?

Submitted by: Amu.dudi


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Expert response from Professor Drew Kershen

Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law (Emeritus), University of Oklahoma, College of Law

Monday, 06/07/2015 21:46

I suggest that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) website is the best place to search for free for information generally and specifically about patents.  The USPTO home page is http://www.uspto.gov

 

However, more precisely, your question indicates a desire to access specific patents.  The USPTO has a full-text patent database that you can find at http://patft.uspto.gov.

 

If you click on this full-text patent database URL, you will see several options.  I suggest you choose the Advance Search option (a boolean search approach).

 

When you get to the page seeking your query, enter “MON810" and click search.  When I did this “MON810" search, the search returned 145 patents that have a reference in the full-text to MON810.

 

The search results come back to the person making the query in lists of 50. The lists are arranged so that “1" is the most recent patent in which MON810 appears and “145" would be the most distant in time in which MON810 appears.

 

When you click on search result “145,” you will see that full-text patent and its patent number.  But you will also see “References” cited in that patent.  If you click on the oldest reference, you should find the first patent relevant to the full-text patent of search result “145” – i.e. the patent that likely gave rise ultimately to MON810.

 

With the patent number(s), you can then return to the “advance search” query and use the patent number(s) to locate citations to whatever patent number particularly interests you.

 

The USPTO website also has an option to search the purported present ownership of a patent (i.e. assignments of patents from the original patent holder to a later purchaser of that patent).  Choose the “Assignment Database” on the full-text patent page.  The USPTO cautions that its assignment database simply records information submitted and, therefore, the assignment database is not a legal opinion about who owns the patent.

Answer

Expert response from Professor Drew Kershen

Earl Sneed Centennial Professor of Law (Emeritus), University of Oklahoma, College of Law

Monday, 06/07/2015 21:46

I suggest that the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) website is the best place to search for free for information generally and specifically about patents.  The USPTO home page is http://www.uspto.gov

 

However, more precisely, your question indicates a desire to access specific patents.  The USPTO has a full-text patent database that you can find at http://patft.uspto.gov.

 

If you click on this full-text patent database URL, you will see several options.  I suggest you choose the Advance Search option (a boolean search approach).

 

When you get to the page seeking your query, enter “MON810" and click search.  When I did this “MON810" search, the search returned 145 patents that have a reference in the full-text to MON810.

 

The search results come back to the person making the query in lists of 50. The lists are arranged so that “1" is the most recent patent in which MON810 appears and “145" would be the most distant in time in which MON810 appears.

 

When you click on search result “145,” you will see that full-text patent and its patent number.  But you will also see “References” cited in that patent.  If you click on the oldest reference, you should find the first patent relevant to the full-text patent of search result “145” – i.e. the patent that likely gave rise ultimately to MON810.

 

With the patent number(s), you can then return to the “advance search” query and use the patent number(s) to locate citations to whatever patent number particularly interests you.

 

The USPTO website also has an option to search the purported present ownership of a patent (i.e. assignments of patents from the original patent holder to a later purchaser of that patent).  Choose the “Assignment Database” on the full-text patent page.  The USPTO cautions that its assignment database simply records information submitted and, therefore, the assignment database is not a legal opinion about who owns the patent.