So I have a question for anyone who is willing to help me with some free information on patents. I was looking up different types of patents and depending on the website you look on there are different types. For instance a majority of the website that I looked at said that there are only 3 different types. Then when I went to the government website they have a list of at least 5 that I can remember. At least the list was similar but the government site did offer a lot more types but also a lot more dry information about them that I could not understand.