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Internet Resources on Patents
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
- Since 1790, the Patent and Trademark Office has existed to
bring to the public the ideas of creators who have been able to
think the previously unthinkable.
- General Information Concerning
Patents (Patent & Trademark Office)
- This publication contains a vast amount of general information
concerning the application for and granting of patents provided
in non-technical language. Intended especially for inventors,
prospective applicants for patents, and students. It is available
in printed form from the Superintendent of Documents (Stock Ordering
Number: 003-004-00661-7) and is reproduced in full here.
- Patent Regulatory Proceedings (USPTO)
- This directory contains the public hearings announcements
from the Federal Register and papers concerning patents.
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- African Intellectual Property Organization (Primarily nations of Francophone Africa; French and English)
- African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (Primarily nations of Anglophone Africa; English)
- Andorra (Catalan)
- IP Australia
- Austrian Patent Office (in German)
- Belgium
- Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (Brazilian Patent Office) (Portuguese)
- Bulgarian Patent Office (Bulgarian and English)
- Canadian Intellectual Property Office (English and French)
- Intellectual Property Department of Chile (Spanish)
- State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China
- Croatia State Intellectual Property Office (Croatian and English)
- Czech Intellectual Property Office (Czech)
- Danish Patent Office (mostly in Danish, some English)
- Estonian Patent Office (Estonian and English)
- Eurasian Patent Organization (Some nations of the former Soviet Union; Russian and English)
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- This link includes information about the European Patent Office and its services and has ordering information for European patents. For full-text European patents, see ESP@CE below.
- National Board of Patents and Registrations of Finland (in Finnish, English and Swedish)
- Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle de France (French only)
- Georgian Intellectual Property Organisation (English)
- German Patent and Trademark Office (in German)
- Industrial Property Organization of Greece (Greek and English)
- Hungarian Patent Office
- Icelandic Patent Office (Icelandic; English and Norwegian sections are under development.)
- Irish Patents Office
- Japan Patent Office Home Page (Japanese and English)
- Korean Intellectual Property Office (Korean and English)
- Luxembourg Intellectual Property Office (French)
- Lithuanian Patent Office (Lithuanian and English)
- State Agency on Industrial Property Protection of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI) (Romanian and English)
- Monaco (French)
- Netherlands Intellectual Property Office (Dutch and English)
- Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
- Norwegian Patent Office (Norwegian and English)
- Intellectual Property Institute of Peru (INDECOPI) (Spanish)
- Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (English)
- Patent Office of Poland (Polish; some info in English.)
- Portuguese National Institute of Industrial Property (Portuguese)
- Romanian State Ofice for Inventions and Trademarks (Romanian and English)
- Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (Russian and English)
- Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (English)
- Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (Slovak and English)
- Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (Slovenian and English)
- South African Patents and Trademarks Office (English)
- Spanish Patent and Trademark Office (Spanish)
- Swedish Patent and Registration Office (Swedish and English)
- Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (in English, French, German and Italian)
- Turkish Patent Institute (Turkish)
- The Patent Office (United Kingdom)
- World Intellectual Property
Organization
- The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental
organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It is one of the 16
"specialized agencies" of the United Nations system of organizations. WIPO is
responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout
the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of dealing
with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property.
- For web sites and/or contact information for countries not listed here, see the WIPO
Directory of National and Regional Industrial Property Offices
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General Information About Patents
- Can You Really Get a
Patent Without a Lawyer? (Nolo Press)
- This article originally appeared in the Spring 1994 issue
of the Nolo News. Steve Elias is one of the designers of a new
Nolo software program based on Patent It Yourself, by David Pressman
(Nolo Press). Read review of Patent It Yourself.
- Derwent Patent Reference Center
- Derwent Co. is a leading worldwide indexer and supplier of patent information. This page contains a variety
of information about patents in general.
- General Information Concerning
Patents (Patent & Trademark Office)
- This publication contains a vast amount of general information
concerning the application for and granting of patents provided
in non-technical language. Intended especially for inventors,
prospective applicants for patents, and students. It is available
in printed form from the Superintendent of Documents (Stock Ordering
Number: 003-004-00661-7) and is reproduced in full here.
- Intellectual Property Law Short-Cut
Hotlinks
- A good collection of resources on patents, trademarks, and copyright.
- Intellectual Property Web Page
- Contains information about patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
- Los Angeles Public Library, Science Technology and Patents Department
- Newsgroup: alt.inventors
- Newsgroup: misc.int-property
- Oppedahl and Larson Patent Law Web
Server
- Frequently asked questions and other information about patents, copyrights,
trademarks, and other forms of intellectual property.
- Patent Documents from
ftp.std.com
- Miscellaneous information about patents.
- Patent FAQ
- Developed by a patent attorney, this site answers questions about protecting inventions,
why patents are necessary, the patent process, and more.
- Patent Information from Kuesterlaw
(Jeff Kuester's Technology Law Resource)
- Includes a variety of resources on intellectual property law.
- Patent Information from
UCSD
- The Science Library at UCSD has compiled information on patent-retrieval databases,
information about the patenting process, and obtaining patents in hard copy.
- Patent Searching Tutorial
- Tutorial developed by the McKinney Engineering Library, University of Texas.
- Questel/Orbit Patent
Essays/Journals/Laws/Correspondence
- Questel/Orbit is an international online information company
specializing in patent, trademark, scientific, chemical, business
and news information. These readings include a selection of essays,
laws and treaties, newsgroups and mailing lists, and electronic
journals.
- State-by-State Inventor Organizations (metalab.unc.edu)
- Many states have local inventor's organization where you can
get good advice on many aspects of the patenting process, meet
with fellow inventors, and attend lectures on inventions.
- U.S. Patent Act,of 1952 (Cornell Law School)
- Core Course Documents in Disk Based Hypertext from Cornell
- This site includes the Patent Act, updated through 1997 and selected case documents, among other items. Page down to the section on
Intellectual Property. The Folio software used has multiple levels of table of contents, and can require some practice to find what you want.
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Patents (Abstracts and Full Text)
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- Canadian Patents Database
- Provided by the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, this database allows searching of Canadian patents
from 1920 to the present, with displayable and downloadable page images.
- Espa@cenet
- Provided by the European Patent Office, esp@cenet allows searching of European, WIPO, Japanese, and worldwide
patents in general. Fulltext of patents is available free online for the last ten years. Earlier years are stored offline and
may be ordered.
- US Patent and Trademark Office Web Patent Databases
- The USPTO provides fulltext and bibliographic searching of US patents from Jan. 1976 to the present. Full text of patents, including images is available free of charge.
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In compiling this page we tried to provide a comprehensive collection of web and resources on patents. We deliberately did not include commercial sites that were merely advertisements for products or services. We did include commercial sites when there was substantive information content. If you know of sites that should be added to this page, please contact Chuck Huber.
Author: Chuck Huber
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