Western Illinois University Libraries is a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. PTRC staff can assist you with basic patent and trademark information - as well as show you how to do preliminary patent searches to determine if there are already patents on your ideas.
Feel free to email (al-francis@wiu.edu) or call (309-298-2722) me with questions about patents. Or if you are in, or going to be in the Macomb, IL area, you can also make an appointment to meet with me. Or check below to see if there is another PTRC closer to you.
Andrea Francis
This guide was created by former PTRC Representative and Professor Emeritus, Chuck Malone.
Chuck has left the building, as it were, and we wish him the most wonderful retirement he can imagine!
