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Automate, Jan Comfort Feb 2018

Automate, Jan Comfort

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Lib 3010 Spring 2018: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2017

Lib 3010 Spring 2018: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to submit an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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A Piece Of The World, Jan Comfort Dec 2017

A Piece Of The World, Jan Comfort

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From Our Ip Bookshelves, Jan Comfort Dec 2016

From Our Ip Bookshelves, Jan Comfort

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It can be difficult to find good-quality books on patent topics that serve the needs of non-lawyers. The Nolo and For Dummies books are popular and accessible but do not include the recent changes in patent law and procedure. The wide-range of users served by Patent and Trademark Resource Centers also benefit from books that address the design thinking that is central to successful inventing and the range of IP protection and marketing needed for successful commercialization. These books may help you fill those needs.

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Lib 3010 Spring 2017: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2016

Lib 3010 Spring 2017: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to submit an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Adding Patent Records To Clemson's Ir--Highlighting The University's Output, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk Jan 2016

Adding Patent Records To Clemson's Ir--Highlighting The University's Output, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

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A mounting body of evidence suggests that works that are made openly available online are cited faster and more frequently. Clemson now supports this open sharing of research through its institutional repository, TigerPrints. This repository is highly optimized to attract Google and other search engine crawlers, so it makes your patents and other research highly visible on the open web. That said, nothing tops the intricate search capabilities of the library catalog. Lisa Bodenheimer, Jan Comfort, and Andy Wesolek have leveraged the benefits of both of these systems by incorporating patent records into each. Specifically, presenters outline this project from generating …

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Adding Patent Records To Your Institutional Repository, Jan Comfort Dec 2015

Adding Patent Records To Your Institutional Repository, Jan Comfort

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Lib 3010 Fall 2016: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2015

Lib 3010 Fall 2016: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to submit an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Collaborate To Innovate: Expanding Access To Faculty Patents Through The Institutional Repository And The Library Catalog, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer Nov 2015

Collaborate To Innovate: Expanding Access To Faculty Patents Through The Institutional Repository And The Library Catalog, Andrew Wesolek, Jan Comfort, Lisa Bodenheimer

Jan Comfort

Institutional repositories and library catalogs have long been used to promote and provide access to scholarly articles, monographs, and other “traditional” forms of scholarship. However, faculty at many institutions participate in “non-traditional” forms of research, such as patents. This work explores the use of Clemson University’s institutional repository and library catalog in promoting and providing access to the patents granted to its inventors. More specifically, the authors outline the project from generating metadata for patents, and cross-walking it into a form that can be batch uploaded to a bepress Digital Commons Repository. They then explore the process of harvesting the …

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Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk Oct 2015

Increasing Access To Clemson University Patents, Jan Comfort, Andy Wesolek, Lisa Bodenheimer, Brenda Burk

Jan Comfort

Clemson now supports open sharing of research through its institutional repository, TigerPrints. Learn to leverage the benefits of this open sharing complemented by your library's catalog, and learn more about the collaborative effort among four distinct library units.

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Lib 3010 Spring 2015: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2014

Lib 3010 Spring 2015: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

Jan Comfort

Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on Patent Searching) were asked to submit an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Lib 3010 Fall 2015: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2014

Lib 3010 Fall 2015: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to submit an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Patent Coverage In Scientific And Technical Research Databases, Jan Comfort, Leena Lalwani Nov 2013

Patent Coverage In Scientific And Technical Research Databases, Jan Comfort, Leena Lalwani

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Patents play an important role in the research process. Yet, most recent articles about patent searching and sources of patent information focus on tools and techniques used by information professionals, not researchers. This article will compare the features of a number of research databases that provide patent information. The analysis will include a chart listing cost, dates of coverage, search strategies, and the benefits and limitations of each.

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What Business Reference Librarians Need To Know About Intellectual Property: Presentations Sponsored By The Patent And Trademark Depository Library Association (Ptdla) At The American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 25, 2006, Nan Myers, Jan Comfort, Virginia A. Baldwin, Donna Hopkins Nov 2013

What Business Reference Librarians Need To Know About Intellectual Property: Presentations Sponsored By The Patent And Trademark Depository Library Association (Ptdla) At The American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 25, 2006, Nan Myers, Jan Comfort, Virginia A. Baldwin, Donna Hopkins

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Presentations sponsored by the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association (PTDLA) at the American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 25, 2006 Speaker #1: Nan Myers Associate Professor; Government Documents, Patents and Trademarks Librarian Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Title: Intellectual Property Roundup: Copyright, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, and Patents Abstract: This presentation provides a capsule overview of the distinctive coverage of the four types of intellectual property – What they are, why they are important, how to get them, what they cost, how long they last. Emphasis will be on what questions patrons ask most, along with the answers! …

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Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort Nov 2013

Finding Grandpa's Patent: Using Patent Information For Historical Or Genealogical Research, Jan Comfort

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Hardly a week goes by without a phone call, an e-mail message, or a visit from a patron who is looking for a patent issued to a family member. Often, the patron does not have complete information, and sometimes has nothing more than a name and a notion that Grandpa once invented something. This article describes some strategies that can be used by Librarians to assist patrons in historical patent research. It, additionally, includes a list of sources and highlights special materials that are available at Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries.

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Lib 3010 Spring 2012: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2011

Lib 3010 Spring 2012: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to supply an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Lib 3010 Spring 2011: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort Dec 2010

Lib 3010 Spring 2011: Students Choose An Image To Represent Patent Searching, Jan Comfort

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Students enrolled in LIB 3010 (a one hour credit-bearing class on patent searching) were asked to supply an image and write a few sentences describing how it represented their experience.

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Other Duties As Assigned: Emerging Roles For Librarians, Jan Comfort May 2009

Other Duties As Assigned: Emerging Roles For Librarians, Jan Comfort

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Outreach To Ptdls, Jan Comfort Apr 2009

Outreach To Ptdls, Jan Comfort

Jan Comfort

Ever since the USPTO began providing access to patents online, there has been a steady decrease in patent traffic in our library. I suspect that I am not the only one who has experienced this change. For some this may have resulted in staff reductions, and our time and attention being drawn to other subject areas. So how do we keep up to date on intellectual property matters and make the most of our encounters with inventors? And how do we stay relevant in this electronic environment? I'll share some coping strategies to help all of us - from the …

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Patents As A Source Of Competitive Intelligence Information.Pdf, Jan Comfort Jun 2006

Patents As A Source Of Competitive Intelligence Information.Pdf, Jan Comfort

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Beyond The Basics: Expanding The Results Of A Preliminary Patent Search, Jan Comfort May 2004

Beyond The Basics: Expanding The Results Of A Preliminary Patent Search, Jan Comfort

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