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Intellectual Property Resource Library

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Links and the Law (by Tim Berners-Lee)

   US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

• A History of the US Patent Office
• A History of the US Patent Office
• US Patent & Trademark Office
• USPTO - Patents
• US Structured Search of Patents
• Recent Patent Related Notices
• USPTO Announcements and Press Releases
• Official Gazette for Patents - Browze Recent Weeks' Patents
• Official Gazette
• USPTO Forms
• US and PCT Patent Fees
• USPTO Patent Information
• General Information Concerning Patents
• Filing Requirements
• USPTO Guide to Filing a Utility Patent
• USPTO Guide to Filing a Design Patent
• USPTO Independent Inventor Resource
• USPTO Products and Services Catalogue
• U.S. Gov. On-Line Bookstore Page
• Certificates of Correction File
• Federal Holidays
• USPTO General Information by Subject
• Alphabetical list of USPTO Organizations
• Useful USPTO Information on Payment of Patent Maintenance Fees

   Patent Laws, Regulations, Rules, and Practices

• Federal Laws
• FirstGov's Resource Center
• FindLaw's Patent Resources
• Rominger Legal - Links to Legal Research Resources
• IPToolBar
• U.S. Code, Title 35 - US Patent and Trademark Office
• Title 37--Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
• (MPEP) Manual of Patent Examining Procedures
• Federal Register
• Retrieve a Federal Register Page
• National Archives and Records Administration Office of the Federal Register
• About the LSA (List of CFR Sections Affected)
• American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 - What's New
• WTO Member Countries and Their Entry Dates

   Patents in the Courts

• Find Law
• FindLaw's Patent Resources
• US District Court for the District of Columbia
  
• US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
• US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (opinions)

   Some Other Patent Offices

• WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization
• (WIPO) Patent Cooperation Treaty Information
• (USPTO) Patent Cooperation Treaty Information
• WIPO's PatentScope (web portal for all patent and PCT-related services and activities)
• WIPO's Help for PCT Applicants
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• European Patent Office (EPO)
• EPO's Network of Databases with Search Fields
• EPO's List of Databases
• Japan Patent Office (JPO)
• (in English) Japan Patent Office (JPO)
• IP Australia (EPO)
• INPADOC Manuals and Databases

   Help for Inventors and How to Obtain a Patent

• Find Laws's Answers to Questions About Patents
• Patent Information Users Group
• Patent Resources (Patent Resources Group, Inc.)
• Slide Presentation on What are Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
• Patent It Yourself by Pressman (Nolo Press)
• Updates to Patent It Yourself by Pressman (Nolo Press)
• Sunnyvale Center of Innovation, Invention, and Ideas SCI(3)
• Patent Cafe
• Patent Links - From Patent to Profit
• Inventor's Express Services, Inc.
• Search for Registered Patent Agents/Attorneys

   Patent and Intellectual Property Associations

• National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP)
• Silicon Valley IP Law Association (SVIPLA)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
• Intellectual Property Owners (IPO)
• Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Society
• United Inventors Association (UIA)
• Inventors' Alliance of Northern California
• Inventors' Alliance of SF Bay Area
• Meetings of the Inventors' Alliance of SF Bay Area
• Inventor's Network of the Capital Area
• Licensing Executives Society (LES)
• Licensing Executives Society (LES)- Silicon Valley Chapter

   Patent Searching

• Patent Classification Definitions and Manual Lookup
• US Classes by Number and Title
• WIPO IPC Classifications
• Patent Searches - From Patent to Profit
• WIPO Intellectual Property Digital Library
• WIPO PCT Search Help
• WIPO PCT Structured Search (as guest)
• European Patent Searching (espacenet)
• German Patent and Trademark Office (DEPATISnet)
• Delphion's IP Search Site
• Delphion's new IP Search Site
• MicroPatents
• FreePatentsOnline.com (includes ability to download PDF files)
• GetIPDL - Patent Downloader from IPDL Libraries (shareware software by Kazuya Ujihara)
• Patent Fetcher (download free PDF files)
• Google's Directory of Intellectual Property Resources
• Search Prior Art (IP.com)
• Software Patent Institute and its Database of Software Technologies
• Thomson-Dialog’s searching of Business, Intellectual Property, Science and Technology, News & Trade Journals, Market Research

   How to License a Patent

• Intellectual Property Magazine
• Tax Consequences of Patents
• Patent Cafe - Licensing for Profit
• Idea to Market Network - Resources
• Find Law (Example license agreement - Gameboy http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/agreements/ bam/gameboy.license)
• Find Law (Other License Examples http://contracts.corporate.findlaw.com/agreements/ bam/gameboy.license)
• Stanford's Top 10 Royalty Cases
• Stanford's Policy on Inventions, Patents, and Licensing
• Inventors Publishing (Invention Promotion)
• Neustel & Zimmer Approach to Successful Inventing
• The USPTO lists invention promotion companies it has received commplaints about
• The Fedral Trade Commission archives press releases about companies it has investigated (search for "invention")
• National Inventor Fraud Center Inc. lists "good guy" invention promotion companies
• InventorEd Inc. provides cautions regarding invention promotion companies
• United Inventors Association supplies "red flags" to look for when evaluating an invention promotion company

   Patent Practitioners and The Patent Bar Exam

• Patent Cafe - IP Events Calendar
  
• USPTO - Office of Enrollment and Discipline (has Exam schedules and Q&A of previous exams)
• Patent Exam Test Tips
• Patent Bar Review (PLI)
• Date Calculator (to add or subtract years, days, and months to/from a date)
• Calendar Showing a Whole Year at a Time
• Year-selection columns and Month-selection rows Identify one of the Month Displays labeled A-G

   Trademarks

• PTDL Program Home Page
• Basic Facts about Trademarks
• TESS Trademark Information from the USPTO
• Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS)
• Trademark Law (by ipwatchdog.com)

   Copyrights

• U.S. Copyright Office Home Page
• Federal Copyright Statute
• Copyright Law (by ipwatchdog.com)

   Miscellaneous Links

• WikiPatents has an extensive database of patents open for public comment on the internet, free patent translation into multiple languages, and allows PDF downloading of patents in addition to other free resources.
• IP NewsFlash provides up-to-date news on IP
• Patent and Trademark Comprehensive Resources
• IPWatchDog.com
• Patent of the Week
• Obscure Patents (IPWatchDog)
• Obscure Patents (Delphion Gallery)
• BountyQuest: Rewards For Knowledge
• BustPatents.com (Surviving Bad Patents)
• Lemelson MIT Program
• MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
• Links on Intellectual Property, Patents, and Trademarks
• Patent Internet Sites
• Patent Databases on the Internet
• Yahoo: Patents
• The Pierce Law Center's Intellectual Property Mall
• PIPERS Virtual Intellectual Property Library
• Invent Now - Museum
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure
• Newsgroup: misc.int-property
• Inc Magazine article on Best Companies Practices for Creating IP
• The Technology Transfer Process