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The following links provide useful
information about patent and patent-related matters:
General:
- The Patent Statutes (from
Cornell Law School)
- The United
States Patent and Trademark Office. A treasure trove of patent information including
General Information Concerning Patents; a Patent Database that
permits keyword searches for patent that have issued since 1976,
and classification searches for all patent since 1790; A
searchable database of the manual of patent classification (MPEP); the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, the patent attorney's bible; the Roster of Registered Patent Attorneys and
Agents (if the person preparing
your patent application isn't on this list, run! or perhaps
sue them for malpractice); The current Fee Schedule; and a
wealth of other information.
- Patent-related Court Decisions: The Supreme Court; and
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Intellectual Property Law
site. Lots of links and other intellectual property information.
- United
Inventors Association. Lots of links
and information about inventing and patenting
- http://www.inventorfraud.com/; http://www.inventnet.com/scam.html; http://www.inventored.org/caution/. Visit these sites to learn about unscrupulous
invention promotion companies. The inventor must be very
wary when deciding to patent his invention; there are plenty of
companies willing to take your money without providing an equal
value of services in return. Stick with bonafide patent
attorneys that are in good standing with the United States Patent
Office.
- Inventors Digest. As
far as I am aware, the only magazine devoted to inventors and
inventions.
- Rocky
Mountain Inventors Congress. If
you live along the front range of Colorado, you would be well
advised to join this organization and attend their round table
meetings: the whole process of capitalizing on your invention is
discussed from prototyping, manufacturing and licensing to
marketing, protecting and licensing. If you live elsewhere do a
Google search and see if there isn't a similar organization in
your area.
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Patent Databases (For do-it-yourself
searching):
- http://www.delphion.com.
Basic searching of United States patent files is provided for
free; however, for a fee, European and Japanese patents can be
searched.
- http://gb.espacenet.com/.
Search patents and patent applications for Great Britain, all of
the European Patent Office and PCT applications. Further search
English abstracts for Japanese patents.
- http://patents1.ic.gc.ca/intro-e.html. Search the patent database of the Canadian Patent
Office.
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Other links will be provided in
the future. The shear number of web sites devoted to inventing
and patenting is enormous. For you searching pleasure, I
recommend Google.com. I
have not found a more accurate and useful search engine. Use my
convenient Google search link below:
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