IP Resources

	U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
	U.S. Copyright Office
	European Patent Office
	European Community Trademark Office
	World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO)
	U.K. Patent Office
	IP Australia
	Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO)– English
	New Zealand Intellectual Property Office
	German Patent Office (in German only)
	French Office of Industrial Property (in French only)
	Japanese Patent Office
	(South) Korean Patent Office
	State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) of the P.R.C.
	Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO)
	Government of India, NIC Patent Division
	Brazilian Patent Office

 

	Patent Reader (free copies of U.S.Patents in PDF format)
	Pat2PDF (free copies of U.S. patents in PDF format)
	U.S. Patents at the USPTO
	Extended Patents through the USPTO (medical & pharmaceutical patents)
	U.S. Trademarks at the USPTO
	Agricultural Biotechnology Patents & Technology
	European Patents through the EPO
	European Community Trademarks through OAPI
	International Patent Applications through WIPO
	U.K. Patents through the U.K. Patent Office
	U.K. Trademarks through the U.K. Patent Office
	Canadian Patents through CIPO
	Canadian Trademarks through CIPO
	Australian Patents through IP Australia
	Australian Trademarks through IP Australia
	New Zealand Patents through the New Zealand IP Office
	New Zealand Trademarks through the New Zealand IP Office
	German Patent Office — Worldwide Patent Search — Excellent Resource
	Russian Patents through the Russian Patent Office
	Chinese (P.R.C.) Patents through SIPO
	Taiwanese Patents through TIPO
	Indian Patents through NIC, Patent Division

 

	Software Patent Institute
	WIPO Journal of Patent Associated Literature (JOPAL)
	Chemfinder
	The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
	HP Labs Technical Reports
	PubMed
	U.S. FDA Electronic Orange Book
	IBM Technical Publication Disclosures (payservice)
	Thomsen Scientific Databases (payservice)

 

General IP Information

	General Information About Patents — USPTO
	Basic Facts about Trademarks — USPTO
	Copyright Basics — U.S. Copyright Office
	All About Trademarks
	Diifferences between U.S. and European Patent Laws
	Patents
	Trademarks
	Trade Dress
	Copyright
	Trade Secrets
	Sui Generis Rights
	Intellectual Property

 

IP Legal Resouces

	USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
	USPTO Patent Notices
	USPTO Official Gazette for Patents
	USPTO Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP)
	USPTO Trademark Official Gazette
	Mailing and Hand Carry Addresses for USPTO Mail
	USPTO Fee Schedule
	USPTO Forms
	USPTO Patent Attorney/Agent Search
	Check Maintenance Fee Status of a U.S. Patent
	Check Chain of Title of a U.S. Patent
	Check Chain of Title for a U.S. Trademark
	U.S. Trademark File Wrapper Histories
	U.S. Patent File Wrapper Histories
	Important Patent Practice Notes (NAPP)
	Title 35 of the U.S. Patent Statute
	U.S. Code of Federal Regulations — Title 37
	Title 15, Chapter 22of the U.S. Trademark Statute
	Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Statute
	U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
	Federal Circuit Decisions
	Search Federal Circuit Cases
	U.S. Supreme Court Patent Decisions
	Recent Developments in U.S. Patent Law
	Services for Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Applicants
	Documents & Information Related to WIPO/PCT Applications
	Overview of Foreign (outside the U.S.) Patent Litigation

 

IP Blogs — Be forewarned — many patent blogs are self-serving advertisements for services

	Patently O Blog
	Patent Pending Blog — Patents and the History of Technology
	IP Counsel Blog
	Patent Prosecution Blog
	IP Litigation Blog
	Promote the Progresss Patent Blog
	A Patent Blog
	Anything under the Sun Patent Blog
	Canada Patent Blog
	European Patent Blog of Axel Horns

 

IP Community

	American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
	Intellectual Property Owners Associaiton
	National Association of Patent Practitioners (NAPP)
	Copyright Society of the USA
	Patent Information Users Group (PIUG)
	Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
	http://ip.nationalacademies.org/
	Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)
	Licensing Executives Society (U.S. and Canada)
	World Trade Organization (WTO)
	International Trademark Association (INTA)
	International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)
	Licensing Executives Society (International)
	Insitute of Professional Representatives before the EPO
	Insitute of Patentees and Inventors (U.K.)
	Institute of TradeMark Attorneys (U.K.)
	Klaas, Law, O’Meara & Malkin — Excellent patent law firm in Denver,CO
	Dennemeyer Law Firm (Luxembourg)
	Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association (MIPLA)
	Minnesota Patent and IPLaw Firms
	Robert E. Woods, Professional Association
	Campbell, Nelson & Whipps — Top Drawer Chemical Patent Practitioners
	Bit Law — IP Resources
	Beck & Tysver
	Shumaker & Sieffert
	Silicon Valley IP Law Association
	Mayall’s IP Links (U.K.)
	Lus Mentis (The Netherlands)

 

Interesting Inventors and Inventions

	The Hedy Lamar Patent Story
	Abraham Lincoln’s Patent
	Earl Bakken — One Man’s Full Life
	Nikola Tesla — Master of Lightning
	James Clerk Maxwell Foundation
	Charles Babbage and the “DifferenceEngine”
	ENIAC — The World’s First Electronic Computer (1945)
	The History of Computing Project
	Alexander Bain — Inventor of the Faxin 1843
	George Washngton Carver
	Ralph Samuelson and the Invention of Waterskiing
	Patsy Sherman and the Invention of Scotchguard
	William Lear — Inventor of the 8-Track Tape Player
	Craven Walker and the Lava Lite
	The History of Snowmobile Development
	Richard Drew and the Invention of Scotch Tape
	Sir Frank Whittle and Hansvon Ohain — Inventors of the Jet Aircraft
	First U.S. Jet: The Bell XP-59A (1942)
	The Lockheed Orion P-80Jet (1944)
	Forty Years On — Officially Still the World’s Fastest Plane
	History of the Zipper
	History of the Paper Clip
	Inventor of the Frisbee
	Edwin Herbert Land
	The Discovery of Rubber Vulcanization by Goodyear
	Beer — “Proof that God Loves Man” (quoting Benjamin Franklin)
	Mark Twain’s Patents
	The Long Refrigerator Patent Collaboration between Szilard and Einstein
	The Howard Hughes Drill Bit Patent
	Raymond Loewy — The Father of Industrial Design
	Museum of Ancient Inventions
	Museum of Questionable Medical Devices
	Ancient Chinese Seismometer
	The Viking Sunstone — Navigating in the Cloudy North Atlantic without a Compass
	John Holland — American Inventor of the Submarine
	Chester F. Carlson — Inventor of Xerography
	Who Invented the Jeep?
	The Evolution of Shaped Skis
	Charles Darrow and the Monopoly Game in 1932
	History of the Venerable Fiat 500 Microcar
	Unusual Microcars
	Human-Powered Vehicles
	Gallery of Obscure Patents

 

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