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National Patent Sites / National Site Lists of Links / Other Patent Sites / Intellectual Property Dictionaries and Glossaries
Intellectual Property / Sites for InvestorsHumorous Patent Related Sites

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The following list is for reference only.

National Patent Offices

Canadian Patent Database
http://Patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html
Introduction search and view patents
esp@cenet
http://gb.espacenet.com/
From the UK Patent Office. "Europe's network of patent
databases". Search and view European patents
European Patent Office
http://www.european-patent-office.org/
Information about the EPO. Links to Esp@cenet
for patent searching
IP Australia
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/
Search and display patents since 1979
Japan Patent Office
http://www.jpo.go.jp/
(English language version). Information about the patent office, links to PAJ, which is where patents can be searched
The UK Patent Office
http://www.patent.gov.uk/
Information about the Patent Office. Links to
esp@cenet for searching
US Patent and Trademark Office Home Page
http://www.uspto.gov/
find issued US patents, with drawings, back to 1976, and efforts are underway to bring the rest of the records, back to 1790, online as soon as possible

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Link Lists to National Patent Offices

Ignatz: Patents & Intellectual Property
http://www.ignatz.net/patents.htm
Links to many patent information sites, especially foreign Patent Offices.
National Patent Offices on the WWW http://www.piperpat.co.nz/resource/patoff.html
VERY complete! Put up by Pipers Patent & Trademark Attorneys, New Zealand
Simon Saunders & Daniel Donovan's Resourceshttp://members.tripod.com/
patentNZ/s_Patent_Links.HTML

Patent Links from New Zealand Link list, especially for foreign Patent Offices

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Patents

http://www.bl.uk/services/stb/etalmenu.html
Links to patent and other intellectual property information resources put up by the Patents Information service of STB, the science,
technology and business wing of the British Library
PatentLawLinks.http://www.patentlawlinks.com/
Com Links For Patent Professionals recommended by
Research Buzz
The Patent Information Users Group, Inc.http://www.piug.org/
"PIUG is a not-for-profit organization for individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest in patent information"
- from the site. Recommended in Free Pint as a Favourite Tipple
U.S. Patent Lawhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/
topics/patent.html

Put up by Cornell University
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
USPTO Patent Databases Patent Bibliographic and AIDS Databases

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Intellectual Property dictionaries and glossaries

These two are complementary - each site has terms that the other one
doesn't have:

http://www.derwent.co.uk/resource/glossary.html
Derwent Glossary of Patent Terms

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9609.html
A Patent Glossary put up by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

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Intellectual Property

Community Plant Variety Rights
http://www.cpvo.fr/
Design, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Information
http://www.uspatentinfo.com/
by Da Vinci Design Resource "This site is monitored by John Moetteli, an international
patent and trademark attorney." - from the site
Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets
http://www.patents-tm.com/
by Long & Long (law firm)
US Patent And Trademark Kids' Pages
http://www.uspto.gov/go/kids/
World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org/
http://Yet2.com/

Technology Market site for connecting buyers and sellers of
intellectual property Mentioned in Edupage


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Sites for inventors

Patent Cafe
http://patentcafe.com/
by inventor Andy Gibb
The Patent Crib Sheet
http://www.patentcribsheet.com/
for attorneys and inventors about how to "do" patents, put up by the Law Offices of Ernest Schaal
United Inventors Association
http://www.uiausa.com/
USA Inventor Resource Internet Pages. Information about inventing, inventors, obtaining a patent, evaluation, marketing and avoiding invention fraud.
USPTO Independent Inventor Resources
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/iip/index.htm

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Humorous patent related sites

http://www.patents.ibm.com/gallery.html
Gallery of Obscure Patents on the IBM Delphion site

http://www.patentplace.com/
Patent Place. The world's First User Generated Cartoon Soap Opera

http://www.patent.freeserve.co.uk/
Patently Absurd! Weird & wacky patents put up by the UK Patent Office

http://soundreach.simplenet.com/psp/
Pretty Strange Patents. A tribute to strange, wacky and unusual
patents from around the world. Recommended by Netsurfer Digest

http://totallyabsurd.com/
"Totally Absurd Inventions explores the funnier side of our inventive
spirit by featuring actual USA patented products!" - from the site

http://colitz.com/site/wackyf.htm
Wacky Patent of the Month

http://www.leeds.gov.uk/funstuff/patent/pat_main.html
Wacky Patents put up by Leeds City Council (UK)

http://www.lightlink.com/bbm/weird.html
Weird and Wonderful Patents put up by Brown, Pinnisi & Michaels, PC
(law firm)

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listing from:
"Influence of the Internet on the Patent Process"
By Caryn Wesner-Early
from
Free Pint 5th October 2000 No.72 (ISSN 1460-7239) the free
email newsletter with tips and articles on using the Web for your work. More
details available at http://www.freepint.co.uk/

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