CSHL
Library Links |
National Patent Sites
/ National Site Lists of Links / Other Patent Sites
/ Intellectual Property Dictionaries and Glossaries
Intellectual Property / Sites for
Investors / Humorous Patent Related Sites
Please Note: CSHL
has a Technology Licensing Office
to help
with all your technology transfer activities.
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 |
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 |
| 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 |
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
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 |
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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)
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/