In addition to assisting individuals with patent and trademark searching, my job responsibilities as a Reference Librarian includes face to face and telephone reference service, collection development and library instruction. The individuals I usually assist with patent and trademark questions are community members and students. At UCF, there is a department called the Office of Research and Commercialization. If a professor has a patented idea, s/he will work with the Research side of the Office of Research and Commercialization.
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University of Central FloridaSubmitted by: Hal Mendelsohn
In addition to assisting individuals with patent and trademark searching, my job responsibilities as a Reference Librarian includes face to face and telephone reference service, collection development and library instruction. The individuals I usually assist with patent and trademark questions are community members and students. At UCF, there is a department called the Office of Research and Commercialization. If a professor has a patented idea, s/he will work with the Research side of the Office of Research and Commercialization.
2013-2014 has been a quiet year for the Orono PTRC. I spent the lion’s share of my PTRC time working on the PTRCA website, still trying to address the multitude of problems that arose with the migration to a new server before last year’s seminar. That has proven to be a major headache! I owe a tremendous amount of gratitude to the publications committee volunteers who’ve stepped up to help: Robert Berry, Hal Mendelsohn, 
The Oklahoma State University Library has been a Patent and Trademark Depository Library since 1956. We are housed in the main University Library and are part of the Government Documents Department, a regional depository for federal government documents.
John Meier is the PTRC librarian for the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. He is a Science Librarian in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences branch library on the main campus of Penn State. Nan Butkovich, who attended the our seminar in 2013, is the Head of the library; Megan Folmar, who attended our seminar in 2011, is the Information Resources and Services Support Specialist; and Ann Thompson, our library supervisor, hopes to attend in the future. 