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Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights


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If you're an inventor, student, IP attorney, or just interested in finding when an old gadget was invented, staff at the State Library can assist you in the effective use of patent and trademark information.

 

 

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The State Library has been a Patent and Trademark Depository Library since 1988. Currently, we hold U.S patents, trademarks, and material on intellectual property rights and make them freely available to the general public. However, we are in the process of transitioning Iowa's Patent and Trademark Library to another library. More information will be posted to this Web site as it is known.

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Patents
A patent is a property right granted by the United States to inventors for a limited time in exchange for public disclosure of their invention. Patents give inventors the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling their invention.
Trademarks
A trademark is a word, phrase, logo, or other mark registered to identify a product or service of a particular business.
Copyrights
A copyright protects published and unpublished writings, movies and their scripts, sculptures, paintings, and other “original works of authorship.”
Iowa Inventors Database
This 1843 - 2009 database of Iowa inventors and their inventions is searchable by name of inventor, their residence, title of invention, date a patent was granted, and patent number.
 

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