United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL)
1301 Olive Street, Central Library, Business, Science & Technology Department, First Floor West
Saint Louis , MISSOURI 63103-2334
Tel: 314-539-0390
Fax: 314-241-4305
Contact: Carol Giles-Straight
E-mail Address: cgiles@slpl.lib.mo.us
Web Page: www.slpl.lib.mo.us/using/bst.htm
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A Depository of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for independent patent and trademark research.
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Services Offered:
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See information on services
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Resource Description:
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-- --> Right here in St. Louis as well as in Springfield, Illinois, are Patent Libraries licensed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to allow inventors, innovators, and idea people to keep current and have a direct link to the USPTO, United States Patent and Trademark Office, for their patent and trademark research. -- Carol Giles-Straight, formerly spent 15-months at the USPTO and can aid you in researching the over 7.2-million patents now on file. She will explain to you the process but will not do the work for you or provide legal advice.-- Knowing this "Prior Art" will extend your knowledge. The knowledge of who you will be competing against; their product secrets, their "Claims," their weaknesses, where they are located, and maybe finding out that what you thought was "your greatest invention of this age" has already been invented? If that is the case, contact those inventors and buy or license the invention from them. -- They are protected by their Issued, United States Utility Patent for a possible term of 17 or more years. -- Do the Research @ --> USPTO -- click-on the locater "Site Overview - New Users" to the "Inventor Resources." -- Or more directly by using: --> Inventor Resources -- Also go to an introduction to patent searching for the novice researcher; McKinney Engineering Library Patent Researching Guide @ --> Patent Tutorial
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Open Hours:
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-- Monday 10-9 * Tuesday - Friday 10-6 * Saturday 9-5 * Closed Sundays and Holidays -- Call 314-539-0390 for personal assistance -- ask for Carol Giles-Straight. -- "Generation Y biggest user of U.S. libraries - survey | Reuters" --
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Population Served:
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-- All Missouri and Illinois Patent Attorneys, inventors, innovators and "idea people." -- "On Line for Independent Inventors" --
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PRESS RELEASE:
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-- The first Sunday of every month the S. W. Missouri Inventors Network meets at the Library Center, 4653 South Campbell, Springfield, Missouri, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. The public is welcome. --
-- Take advantage and come out to listen to the month's featured speaker, and, of course, be sure to come for Free patent information. Those who arrive by 2:00 p.m. will be entered into a drawing for a Free Product. Also, along with serious aspects of Inventing, there will be lots of laughs and good fellowship.
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EDITORIAL CONTACT:
Jan Healzer
417-725-9274
The Invention Lady
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Child Care Description:
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Mommy says that when I get old enough she will take me to the library and I can read real neat books about birds n' rabbits n' flowers and playing games - and playing like big grown-ups do and.... but for now, I can't go 'cause I'm not old enough :-(
- Ya-know what? I can think of all those things I can't have..I can 'Invent' 'em. I can fly like Peter Pan and Wendy. I can daydream.
- You grown-ups really have it good. You can make somethin' from your dreams. Go see the Inventors Association of St. Louis :-))
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Accessibility Limitations:
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YES
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Accessibility Limitation Description:
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-- No problem, if somebody drives you to the Main Library, or you come by bus and get dropped off. -- However, city parking has been very difficult. Be sure to bring sufficient change for the parking meters. -- There's a 2-hour parking-meter limit, with a Dime = 4-minutes, a Quarter = 10-minutes and $3.00 in change for 2 hours.
-- Plan to stay a while. -- Across the street is a parking-garage that charges $3.00 for parking! -- -- The 'Cutting Edge'Information -- -- A. "Individual Patent & Trademark Assistance" B. "PTDL Search Room Services" C. "Invention..Truth or Consequence" D. "Revision of Patent Fees, Fiscal 2005-2007" E. "Mumbo Jumbo Gumbo" F. "Quiddity - Inventors/Inventions" G. "Success, You Will Have Earned It" H. "To the Victor Go the Spoils" I. "*Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sexx" J. "You're A Big Boy Now - Yes You Are"
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Patent Myths
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-- Patent Search Tutorial and Information -- University of Texas --
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Volunteer Opportunities:
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-- -- Spend some of your valuable time
in the Business, Science and Technology Department. Expand your learning ability. Consider that you are earning $150.00 an hour or more by doing your own research, over what you would pay a researcher to do it for you. Your unprofessionable and short research is only done preliminary and should be preceded by a thorough research by later legal experts.
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Volunteer Description:
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-- "And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." - John F. Kennedy,
Inaugural Address (Jan 20, 1961) -- "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
-- Sir Winston Churchill - quoted by
Former President, Ronald Reagan -- "If you don't strive for the best, you will never make it." -- Gerald R. Ford, President -- "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -- where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do." -- Phillips Brooks
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Certificates/Licenses:
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-- -- The United States Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL)
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Funding Sources:
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-- United States Department of Commerce, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Additional Notes: IASL Meets the 3rd Tuesdays of Each Month in 2008
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-- Don't give up your day-job yet. Contact the Inventors Association of St. Louis (IASL) at 314-432-1291 & e-mail inquiries to: -- Director@inventorsconnection.org. -- The IASL will help you with your Intellectual Property (IP) research and development. -- The Public is invited to attend their open to the public meeting: 6:00 pm on TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2008 - the EAST Meeting Room @ St. Louis County's Library Headquarters, 1640 South Lindbergh Blvd; across from Plaza Frontenac - one-quarter mile south of the intersection of U.S. Hiway 64-40 and U.S. Hiway 61-67. -- Go, you are welcomed. You will network and brainstorm with fellow "Idea People." Membership is $55.00 for the first full year and renewable at $35.00 each additional twelve months. -- -- If you are thinking of joining; but..?? -- then please donate $5.00 before leaving.-- In the beginning, heaven and earth were created--followed by a lot of other things. - Inventors showed-up to take credit for it all... and now we are up to the Inventors Association of St. Louis to try and explain it to you. -- Their second order of business will be the listening to a public speaker for an hour who will address the inventors' needs. -- The third portion will start near 8:00 pm and will, under a binding letter of confidentiality that all will sign, assist the participants with their ideas.. ultimately to protect them with a one year provisional application for patent (PAP), leading to a Non-provisional Patent Application - to the further need for fuller protection of a Trade Name, Trademark/Service Mark, Trade Secrete and(or) Copyright.
-- For further infomation please log-on: IASL -- the Inventors Association of St. Louis, your major source of inventive information.
- Robert Scheinkman, President
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Driving Directions:
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-- When in Downtown Saint Louis, Olive Street is a main thoroughfare; runs east and west, a few blocks north of Highway 64-40, the Daniel Boone Expressway. Get to 1301 Olive Street. The "Central Library" takes-up a city block with on-street-parking-meter parking all around it. -- -- Walk to the imposing steps in front of the Library and enter around these steps to the entrance leading to the first floor entrance. Go left, down the hallway to the Business, Science and Technology Department. Inside is located the U.S. Patent and Trademark Depository Library (PTDL). Patent information is updated every Tuesday. -- YOU ARE #1 -- YOU ARE UNIQUE - -- YOU ARE UNIQUE, JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE IS:
IT WILL BE YOUR EFFORT THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THIS WORLD OF INVENTION -- -- -- -- -- Services Offered -- -- -- --
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