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PLANT PATENTS

BACKGROUND

As part of the University Libraries' patent and trademark depository library status, there is a complete file of plant patents issued in the Science and Engineering Library.

CATALOGING AND ACCESSIBILITY

All plant patents issued are either print or microfiche, and are in file cabinets on the SEL 3rd Floor East. (Note: there is no offical electronic version issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office because the image reproduction of the detailed photographs is not sufficient.

Plant Patents 1-10,000 are in microfiche, in acid free folders in the very front of the first file cabinet. Plant Patents 10,001+ are paper, and are filed after the microfiche in several file cabinets.

There are catalog records for the plant patents in WorldCat and Aleph. Look for the following:

United States Plant patent (SCI REF QK46.U54) United States Plant patent (SCI REF MICROFICHE 101)

FILING OF NEW PLANT PATENTS (waiting for Paulina)

maintained by Cynthia Spell [spell@library.umass.edu]