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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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and Other States
Federal Laws and Regs | Federal Agencies | Executive Branch | Legislative Branch
International Law Links | Journals on the Net | IP Links | Technology Searching
Copyright | Trademark | Other Law | Internet, Computers | Standards | Other Searching
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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
- 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
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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:
SurfIP - from the Singapore Intellectual Property Office - search patents from US, PCT, EPO, Canada, Singapore, others
UK Patent Office - with link to EPO Espacenet - search many different countries, PCT
Canadian Patent Office Patents Database
- 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)
- 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?
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.
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
- 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.
Other searching sites:
Sites which require paid subscriptions (B&M Staff - see MFB for account
information):
Defensive Publications and Registrations
- The IP.com Prior Art Database
"provides innovative companies with a fast and effective way to publish their innovation into a single, publicly searchable, library indexed, collection of prior art."
- IP.com’s Legal Safeguarding Agent
"ensures that you can irrefutably prove the content of your work and the date that you created that work at any point in the future."
- IP.com's Creative Registry
"is a web-based registry that allows you to upload your documents and creative work for legal safeguarding. IP.com digitally fingerprints and date-stamps your work while placing it into a private archive for your personal access. IP.com then publishes the fingerprint and date into the public domain as a testament to the existence of your work. Your actual document is NEVER exposed to anyone else, yet you have irrefutable proof of it's content at the precise time it was safeguarded!"
- Delphion Patent Server has
IBM Technical Bulletins, an in-house system of defensive publications (subscription
required)
Copyright
See the Copyright Office's listings in "Federal
Agencies", above
- The Copyright Website
- SUL: Copyright & Fair Use
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- Mark Twain's speech
on copyright.
- Copyright Renewal Databases at Rutgers
and Stanford.
- Public Domain Music listing (PDinfo.com)
- Musical Copyright Licensing Organizations:
- USA:
ASCAP: (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) [U.S. performing rights society]
BMI: (Broadcast Music, Inc) [U.S. performing rights society]
National Music Publishers Association
SESAC: [U.S. performing rights society]
Harry Fox Agency: [U.S. mechanical rights agency]
- Australia:
AMCOS The Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners' Society
APRA The Australian Performing Rights Association
- Belgium: SABAM The Belgian Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers
- Canada:
SOCAN: (Society of Authors, Composers, and Music Publishers of Canada) [Canadian performing rights society]
- Germany: GEMA The German Society For Musical Performing Rights And Mechanical Reproduction Rights
- Ireland: IMRO The Irish Music Rights Organization
- Spain: SGAE Spain's General Society of Composers and Publishers
- UK:
ALCS Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
MCPS The British Mechanical Copyright Protection Society Limited
PRS The U.K. Performing Right Society
Trademark
For US trademark databases, see the USPTO listings in Federal Agencies,
above.
Thomson and Thomson: originators of the Trademarkscan(r) databases, and a premier trademark and copyright searching firm.
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
- Franklin Pierce Law Center a law school specializing in Intellectual Property, among other things. They have a very useful On Line Resources Page
- 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
- Innovation Institute (formerly WIN) - a
service which evaluates ideas and products.
- 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.
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