useful links

IP Resources:

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE:

U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Website
www.uspto.gov

Manual of Patent Examination and Procedures (MPEP)

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep.htm

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Applicant's Guide

http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/index.html

Electronic Patent Assignment System (EPAS)

http://epas.uspto.gov/

Patent Application Information Retrieval (Public PAIR)

http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair

USPTO Organizational Chart and Art Unit Directory

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/index.html

INTERNATIONAL PATENT OFFICES:

Australian Patent Office

http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/

Canadian Patent Office

http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html

European Patent Office
www.european-patent-office.org

Japanese Patent Office
www.jpo.go.jp

Japanese Patent Office Translation of Law and Regulation

http://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/hourei/data2.html

World Intellectual Property Organization
www.wipo.int

World Intellectual Property Member IP Offices

http://www.wipo.int/members/en/

World Intellectual Property PCT Applicant's Guide

http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/

PATENT SEARCH ENGINS:

US Patents Search

http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html

US Trademarks Search - Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess)

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=8ta4pk.1.1

Japanese IP Search

http://www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp/homepg_e.ipdl

European Patents Search

http://www.epo.org/patents/patent-information/european-patent-documents/publication-server.html

WIPO PCT Search

http://www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/

espcenet (list of European offices and search engins)

http://www.espacenet.com/access/index.en.htm

LEGAL ASSOCIATIONS/SOCIETIES:

American Bar Association
www.abanet.org

American Intellectual Property Association
www.aipla.org

Intellectual Property Owners Association
www.ipo.org

Licensing Executives Society
www.lesi.org

COURTS:

Supreme Court of the United States

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
www.fedcir.gov

Past Opinions of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

www.ll.georgetown.edu/federal/judicial/cafed.cfm

United States Courts Website

http://www.uscourts.gov/

US Court Links and Jurisdictional Charts

http://www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks/

NEWS:

WIPO News

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

PATENT RETRIEVAL:

Download and print FREE PDF patents

www.pat2pdf.org

Google FREE Patent Search

http://www.google.com/ptshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wt&q=

Patent Fetcher - Pay-As-You-Go

http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

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