Today's Special

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Joke of The Week 
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Woman applies to patent herself ...

 
 
 

 
 

By popular demand we are back!  In the meantime some of the links have changed so please e-mail me with corections for any broken links:

Patent Databases 1
Esp@cenet, USPTO, 
Taiwan, Depatis

Patent Databases 2  

Australia, Bulgaria, Brazil, Canada, China, France,  Hungary, Italy, Korea,  Japan 1, Japan 2, Russia 1, Russia 2, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, SPCs and Medicines.

Patent Databases on Specific Technologies
Agricultural Biotech, European Coatings, Fullerenes, US Dept.  of Energy, DNA.


Non-patent prior art Databases
Chemfinder, defence reports, computing, IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin, Molecular Biology, Xerox, Software Patent Institute, WIPO and more...

Trade Mark Databases  
About 32 at present, but growing...

Designs databases
UK image search, UK status, Australia, Hungary, USA and Switzerland.

IP Litigation
Find out who is on the warpath on the UK IP scene
and further afield

Status of Patents, Trade Marks and Designs
As the title says, plus file inspections via the Internet. Now includes free US File wrappers.

Software
IP related software, mainly for patents. 


Patent Laws  
Text of patent laws from 25+ countries. Also includes EPO links such as Decisions, Official Journal, Attorney listings etc. UK Patent and Designs Journal on-line

Trade Mark Laws
Text of Trade Mark laws from
around the world (under construction).

Other IP Laws
Full text of copyright, designs, semiconductor topography, trade secret and plant variety laws.

Government Patent offices
Links to 59 patent offices.

IP Discussion groups

Patent Information Users' Group (PIUG), alt.inventors, misc.int-property.

Free Translations
Guaranteed better than sticking a fish in your ear.

Miscellaneous Treaties
 Paris convention, copyright and trade mark treaties.

EQE 2009 
Practical tips on passing the European Qualifying Examination of the EPO. 

What's New ?
Shortcut to check the main additions to this site over the past 6 months or so..

None of the Above?
Vacancies in the IP profession, libel on the Internet, Patent Litigation around the world.


General UK Law Resources
Government,  Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments, University Law Departments,  Legal profession etc.

HUMOUR
 Weird and Wacky Patents, Dumb Laws and Inventors' Hall of Fame.

Friends of This Site 
A thank you to some of our linkers, based in exotic locations such as Moscow, Tokyo and Nuneaton.

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