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This is a compilation of useful off-site links found by various folks at Brown & Michaels. All of the links on this page will take you away from the Brown & Michaels site, and we are not responsible for any content on the linked sites, nor is listing here an endorsement of any of the services of the sites listed.
If you find a broken link, please let us know. If you have a link which belongs on this list, please email Mike Brown and if I think it will add to the usefulness of this page, it will be added. That said, however, we have a strict policy of only including links on this page if they are directly related to the subject matter of this website - see our linking policy web page for more info. We're sure your website on marital aids, real estate in Ibiza, or discount air fares is great, but please don't bother asking if we'll link to you - the answer is "no".
Please note: This page is an expansion of our "Intellectual Property Resources" page on the main web site. It was designed, and is maintained, for the internal use of attorneys and paralegals at Brown & Michaels. We've linked it to our website in the expectation that those outside the office may find these links useful. We hope you do. However, where a link notes "account required - see MFB" - you're on your own!
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Federal Statutory and Regulatory Laws (USC / CFR)
U.S Government Agencies
General Search Sites for Federal Agencies and Information:
Web Pages of Federal Government Agencies:
See Executive Branch list, below, for links to Cabinet Departments.
See Legislative Branch, below, for links to Houses of Congress.
International Law Links
- American Society of International Law (ASIL) International Law Springboard (Links Page)
- World Trade Organization (WTO) Homepage
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
WIPO PCT Page - PCT Applicants' Guide - National Phase (Vol. 2)
WIPO Collection of Laws for Electronic Access - CLEA
- OAMI - Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market - Source for EU Trademarks - database search
- Computerpackages, Inc (CPI) has a page with links to country laws and IP offices worldwide
- IP5 - Five IP Offices (EPO, Japan, China, Korea, US) - The five IP offices (IP5) is the name given to a forum of the five largest intellectual property offices in the world that was set up to improve the efficiency of the examination process for patents worldwide.
IP5 Material - links to various IP5 documents and files
Coordinated Citation Document (CCD) search - look up international families of applications with references cited by any of the Five Offices
- National and International Patent Offices
Algeria
Andorra
Argentina
Australia - special database for searching Innovation Patents
Austria
Belgium (Ministry of Economic Affairs) also another page
Benelux - Benelux Trademark Office (Belgium/Netherlands/Luxembourg)
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada - with Patent Search Database and Trademark Search Database
China
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Republic
Denmark -
Eurasian Patent Organization (covers some former Soviet Union republics)
European Patent Office or (alt URL)
Finland
France (in French)
Germany
- Georgia
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Israel - Intellectual Property Law (Adin-Liss law firm site)
Italy
Japan
Jordan (Ministry of Industry & Trade) - website of Patent Attorney Eyad al- Sukhon
Korea (South) (KIPO)
Lithuania
Luxembourg (in French)
Macedonia
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands (NIPO)
New Zealand
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia (ROSPATENT)
Singapore - alternate URL: http://www.epatents.gov.sg
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
United Kingdom
- UK Chartered Institute of Patent Agents
- UK Patents Act of 1977
Uzbekistan
- See also: PatentCafe list of international patent offices
- International Patent Searching: See below
- List of standard numeric codes for items on printed patents (INID codes)
- International Patent Link Pages:
EPO Links to Patent Resources
IPR Help Desk - for European Intellectual Property Law
IPmenu - Worldwide Intellectual Property from Phillips, Ormond & Fitzpatrick (Australia/NZ)
- Patent Attorneys in other countries: PiperPat in New Zealand has links to patent attorneys around the world
- International Trademark Searching:
Australian Trademarks (ATMOSS system)
Canadian Trademarks (Strategis system)
European Community Trademarks (Community Trade Mark Consultation Service Site)
Japanese Trademarks (JIPO)
ROMARIN - WIPO's search database for Madrid Protocol registrations
TMView - Madrid Protocol, European Community Trademarks, and national trademarks in most European countries.
- Northwestern University's Foreign Governments page.
and one from University of Minnesota.
- Virtual Law Library page from Indiana University.
- Chan Robles Virtual Law Library - comprehensive Philippine legal site containing full texts of the Philippine Constitution, US Constitution and other constitutional laws of nations, important laws, significant codes, Philippine Supreme Court decisions as well as thousands of links to worldwide legal resources
- A links page to International IP websites compiled by European Patent Attorney Ralph Beier.
- Embassies and Country Information:
Angola
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bulgaria
the People's Republic of China
China Law Homepage at U. Maryland School of Law
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Iceland
India
Israel
Italy
Madagascar
Norway
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uruguay
- EUR-Lex - The website of the European Union commission in Brussels:
Main index of EUR-Lex
The Official Journals (L series as well as C series) in *.pdf format
Text of nearly all relevant treaties
Consolidated texts of EU legislation
Case Law of EU courts:
- INTELSAT - International Satellite Organization
- The United Nations home page.
- WIPRO Estimator and IP Practices Worldwide. Software for estimating international patenting costs (we use it) and "a rapidly-expanding database listing IP law firms worldwide" from Computer Software Associates.
- Completely off topic, but very interesting: The proceedings of the Old Bailey (London Central Criminal Court) 1674-1834
New York State Agencies and Law Links
Need law from other states?
- Legal & Law Enforcement Office Locations, Hours, & Phone Numbers - Courtsystem.org - Find US courts, jails, prisons, police departments, sheriffs, and district attorneys, including addresses, hours, phone numbers, and services.
- Health Care Proxies for various states
- Public Records Search System
- Delaware Corporation search database
- The Connecticut Legal Branch's Law Library page.
- Findlaw Court Forms - Federal and State
- IACA - Commercial and Corporate forms from various states, as well as UCC forms.
- Justia.com - State and Federal Laws
- Courtsystem.org - links to court addresses in many states
- See Legal Links - from Rominger Legal, who also supplied the following links:
Electronic Journals on the Internet
Technology Searching
US Patents:
- USPTO Patent Databases
- searchable full-text and images from 1976 (images require TIFF plug-in for browser)
- images only from 1790-1975
- full-text and images of published patent applications from March 29, 2001
- See USPTO listings above for other patent databases and information
The USPTO database allows downloading of images only one page at a time in TIFF format (browser plug-in required).
- Patent Tools website offers a number of tools for analyzing patents, as well as generating PDF versions of full US patent listings.
- Google Patents is a search site for US patents and published applications - it's in beta test right now. Coverage for text search theoretically includes pre-1976 patents, although the OCR on such patents isn't 100% accurate by any means.
- Patent Fizz allows retrieval of any US patent after 3,555,944 or any published patent application, with the ability to file comments.
- A commercial website, Free Patents Online, permits free downloading of multi-page PDF images of US patents - as does esp@cenet - the European Patent Office database.
- Another search website - IP.com - allows searching US patents by International Class
International Search sites:
- Australian Patent Database - and special database for searching Australian Innovation Patents
- Canadian Patent Database (via Canadian Intellectual Property Office)
- Canadian Technology Center
- esp@cenet - the European Patent Office database - worldwide coverage
- European Patent Register - retrieve file histories from EPO (and some other IP5 offices)
- Japanese Intellectual Property Library (from Japanese Patent Office)
- SurfIP - from Singapore - databases include WIPO-PCT, European Patent Office, USPTO, IPO Singapore, UK Patent Office, Taipei Patents Index, Japan IPDL , IP Australia, Canada IPO, Derwent, China Patent Infonet, Korea EPA, Thailand IPIC
- UK Patent Office Search Page - search UK, EPO, Japanese, PCT, other European Countries.(through espacenet)
- Mayall's IP Link Page - UK page with links to many of the above patent pages, and others.
- UK Patent Office - with link to EPO Espacenet - search many different countries, PCT
Other searching sites:
Copyright
See the Copyright Office's listings in "Federal Agencies", above
Trademark
For US trademark databases, see the USPTO listings in Federal Agencies, above.
Other Intellectual Property Related Links
- The Central New York Technology Development Organization, Inc. - TDO is a Syracuse-based not-for-profit corporation, partially funded by the MEP and by Empire State Development through the New York State Science and Technology Foundation . Its mission is to accomplish economic development through the support of high tech and manufacturing entrepreneurs and businesses in Cayuga, Onondaga, Madison, Cortland, and Oswego counties.
- Cornell University Patent Policy
- Professor Tom Field at the University of New Hampshire School of Law on Copyright, Patent and Trademark Basics
- Intellectual Property Owners (IPO) - "An Association Serving Owners Of Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, And Trade Secrets. "
- JurisNotes.com - a for-pay subscription service for court decisions in IP cases (two months subscription free). Website has a good free collection of basic IP statutes and treaties, links to off-site news articles, and back issues of the newsletter.
- Kuesterlaw Technology Law Resource - one of the first IP sites on the web.
- Mayall's IP Links - a site in the UK, including links to "Patently Absurd" UK patents.
- Patent Portal: An entry point to patent resorces on the Internet
- Software Patent Institute
- Thomas Register Supplier Finder
- Trade Secret Home Page
- Russian Patent Translation services
Federal Courts
Opinions, Rules, etc.:
Other Federal Judicial Resources
New York State Courts
Other Law
Computers / Internet
Standards and Standards Organizations
ANSI - American National Standards Institute (formerly ASA)
ITU - International Telecommunications Union - sets various standards related to communications.
SIC - Standard Industrial Codes
UPC - Uniform Code Council - assigns UPC bar codes for products.
Other Searching
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