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Finding a Patent by Patent Number

JoanShear | 22 September, 2006 09:18

Question:

I need to collect a US Patent cited in a law review article I am editing. The author has cited it as: US Patent # 6.446.061, Taxonomy Generation for Document Collections (2002). The student who was responsible for collecting my sources informed me that her searches gave her a message that this patent number does not exist. How do I go about finding this patent?

Answer:

Go to the United States Patent and Trademark Office "Patent Full-text and Image Database" at http://patft1.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm and type in the patent number without the periods. This will take you to the patent in html without the drawings. To see the patent itself including all the drawings, click on the "Images" link.


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