Do-It-Yourself Patent Searching Using Free Web Resources

Inventors Learning Center is a cooperative effort between registered patent practitioners and professional researchers. Over the years, through our interactions with inventors, we've learned where inventors need the most help. Our goal is to help the independent inventor and small business person quickly get "up the curve" on those topics that are most important to a successful invention.

Registered Patent Agent Kevin Prince teaches courses having to do with patent application writing, patents in general, and patent drawings. Kevin has over 15 years of experience working with inventors to obtain patents, now numbering over 1,400 granted patents in the United States. He's the author of the book The Art of the Patent, featuring some of the best patent drawings created in the last 200 years of patent history in the US.

Professional patent researchers Stewart and Pat Walsh have conducted over 5,500 professional patent searches for attorneys and product developers. Together the two brothers have developed a patent research system that is used by multiple practitioners and an attorney docketing system that keeps track of thousands of patent applications working their way through the US Patent & Trademark Office.