Elizabeth Stephan Librarian for the College of Business and Economics
CBE Reference hours:
CBE Office PH45/45B
Oct 13 - Dec 2
Tuesday 1:30-3:30
Wednesday 9:30-11:30
Library Office:
Haggard Hall 226
Phone: 360-650-2061
Email: Elizabeth Stephan
AOL IM: buslibrarian
Facebook: Elizabeth Stephan
Find Books and more in our Library Use the Library Catalog to locate materials within our collection. The Library Catalog provides location, call number and bibliographic information for the books, journals, newspapers, selected government documents, microforms and other media, as well as online or electronic resources owned or accessed by the Western Libraries.
Books and other resources can be found in the Western Library catalog or the Summit catalog by searching by subject. Please use the following Library of Congress subject headings:
Google patent search The google patent search enables one to find out if there are existent patents for any particular subject. It doesn't cover patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months.
Reference Works: Dictionaries
Glossary of Patent terms / Thomson Scientific This glossary provides a definition for patent and for scientific terms or concepts used by Thomson Scientific in their products and literature.
Reference Works: Guides
How to Search by Patent Number / University of California, San Diego Learn how to select an appropriate patent web site for searching. Find out how to locate patent numbers. Get hands-on, interactive practice searching by patent number at the Delphion (formerly IBM) Patent Server.
IP menu / IP menu Claims to be a "global guide to intellectual property resources on the Internet."
US Patent and Intellectual Property Resources
European Patent Organization / European Patent Organization This is a free-of-charge patent search facility provided by the European Patent Organization. It provides access to European (EP) patents, PCT (WO) patents, US patents (1859+), Japanese patents and many other worldwide patents. It also provides access by country. This database is useful for searching older US patents as it allows searching by keyword and author. All US patents from 1859 are in pdf format.
US Patent Office Patent Database / United States Patent and Trademark Office This is searchable full text database in five-year blocks back to 1976, and in one additional block covering the years 1790-1975. However, the 1790-1975 block can only be searched using patent numbers and current U.S. Classifications. All patents are available in tiff images which requires you to download free software.
International Patent and Intellectual Property Resources
European Patent Organization / European Patent Organization This is a free-of-charge patent search facility provided by the European Patent Organization. It provides access to European (EP) patents, PCT (WO) patents, US patents (1859+), Japanese patents and many other worldwide patents. It also provides access by country. This database is useful for searching older US patents as it allows searching by keyword and author. All US patents from 1859 are in pdf format.
Intellectual Property / Beier, Ralph Lists Intellectual Property Offices, Organizations, Database Providers, Official Registers and Databases, Official Gazettes
Official Examination Guidelines and Publications, Classifications,
Courts, Legal Regulations, Case Law Databases
International classifications / World Intellectual Property Organization This site contains basic information concerning four international classifications, their use worldwide, principles of their application and revision and explanatory material. It also includes a latest edition of each classification in the English and French languages.
