Links to Useful
Patent Resources
U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office. See in particular:
Questions and Answers About Patents at
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/faq.htm
General Information Concerning Patents at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/doc/general/index.html
Roster of Registered Attorneys and Agents at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/oed/roster/index.html
Search for U.S. patents and published U.S. patent applications
at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
World
Intellectual Property Organization
See in particular The Patent Cooperation Treaty
at http://www.wipo.org/pct/en/index.html,
and the shortcut link to Basic Facts about the PCT on that
page.
European
Patent Office
The EPO Web site provides a link to its very extensive patent
database Esp@cenet, which can be accessed directly at www.espacenet.com.
The full text of patent applications published by the EPO
and the full text of patents granted by the EPO can be searched
on this site. The full text of international patent applications
filed in the PCT system and published by the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO) (as “WO” patent documents)
can also be searched.
The Esp@acenet database also provides English abstracts and
titles for published Japanese patent applications and granted
Japanese patents, as well as for patent documents from other
countries.
Full-page images of published patent applications or granted
patents from the United States, the PCT system, the EPO, and
the Japanese Patent Office can also be viewed in the Esp@acenet
database.
Franklin
Pierce Law Center
A site hosted by a law school specializing
in intellectual property (IP) law.
University of Texas at
Austin—Engineering Library
See Patent Information at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent/uspat.html,
in particular the patent searching tutorial at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent-tutorial/index.htm
and the exploratory tutorial on international patent information
at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/instruction/foreignpatents/index.htm
American
Intellectual Property Law Association
See in particular the newly revised publication How to Protect
and Benefit from Your Ideas at http://www.aipla.org/html/publications/2002/howto.pdf
Association
of University Technology Managers
See in particular sample forms and other documents provided
by member institutions at http://www.autm.net/index_ie.html
(such as invention disclosure forms, intellectual property
policies of the institutions, agreements between the institutions
and researchers, licensing agreements, etc.)
Internet Sources Charging a Fee
Delphion
Delphion was spun off from IBM in 2000 to build an “online
marketplace for buyers and sellers of intellectual property”
and operates the database formerly known as the IBM Intellectual
Property Network. Free access to the database recently was
limited to a search of the bibliographic information for issued
U.S. patents, copies of which may be ordered for a fee for
online delivery. Otherwise, full access to the database and
other services offered by Delphion require a monthly subscription
fee. The database includes U.S. patents and U.S.-published
applications, European patent documents from the databases
of the European Patent Office, PCT-published patent applications
from the databases of the World Intellectual Property Organization,
and information from “Patent Abstracts of Japan.”
Nerac,
Inc.
Nerac provides customized information retrieval services to
subscribers, including monitoring for industrial customers
of patenting activities of companies worldwide. Customers
may obtain patent documents from Nerac’s patent databases,
which cover in essence the same U.S., European, PCT, and Japanese
patent documents as Delphion.
Lexis-Nexis
Lexis-Nexis, an information service provider for the legal
profession, offers research and delivery of U.S. or foreign
patent documents to subscribers.
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