Volume 10 Number 1, Winter 1999

In This Issue: MCI WorldCom Hometown Help Program The Director's Journal Library featured on phone book cover Library on the airwaves and in print Treasures of the Library Library Celebrates African-American History Month African-American History Month Celebration Calendar The Second Century begins 10th year Patents and Trademarks on the Internet Rutgers students again offer free tax return help "Art of Writing" luncheon Trustee President: A Community Leader Library plans two fundraisers Friends Schedule Dana Lecture Friends set dates for 1999 Book Sale; need volunteers

Patents and Trademarks on the Internet In addition to finding information about U.S. Patents and Trademarks in the weekly Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on file at the Main Library, you now can "surf the net" to see if your invention is new, or if a business/product name you want to use already is in use. Patents from January 1, 1976, to "today" can be searched on the Internet at www.uspto.gov/ web/menu/pats.html. IBM also offers a free Web site that has the full text of patents for the last 23 years: www.patents.ibm.com/ibm.html. Trademarks are on the Web at www.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html.

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