Helpful US Patent, Trademark and Copyright Resources

U.S. Patent Database Search
http://patft.uspto.gov/

U.S. Patent and Trademark Fees
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2008october02.htm

U.S. Patent and Trademark Forms
http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#patent

U.S. Trademark Information
http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm

U.S. Trademark ID Manual Search
http://tess2.uspto.gov/netahtml/tidm.html

U.S. Copyright Information
http://www.copyright.gov/

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Resources

PCT Help Desk
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pctlegaladminmain.html#helpdesk

PCT Applicant's Guide
http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/index.html

PCT Legal Texts - Rules and Articles
http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/

PCT Online Calculator
http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/calculator/pct-calculator.html

WIPO Help Desk
http://www.wipo.int/patentscope/en/contact.html

PCT Forms
http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/forms/

PCT National Entry Time Limits
http://www.wipo.int/pct/en/texts/pdf/time_limits.pdf

PCT Contracting States
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pctstate.pdf

International Patent Searches
Legal Internet Resources

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/

Federal Circuit Cases via Georgetown University
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/federal/judicial/cafed.cfm

Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html

Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

U.S. Code
http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

LEXIS-NEXIS
( Provides daily cite lists of recent case decisions for all Federal and State
appellate and high courts nationwide)
http://www.lexis.com/Xchange/Daily/Opinion/

ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/home.html

IPO-Intellectual Property Owners Association
http://www.ipo.org/

INTA - International Trademark Association
http://www.inta.org

International Patent Office Websites

Australia Patent Office
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/

Canada Patent Office
http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/

China Patent Office
http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/

Europe Patent Office
http://www.epo.org/index.html

India Patent Office
http://www.patentoffice.nic.in/

Israel Patent Office
http://www.justice.gov.il/MOJEng/RashamPatentim/default.htm

Japan Patent Office
http://www.jpo.go.jp/

Korea (South) Patent Office
http://www.kipo.go.kr/

Mexico Patent Office
http://www.impi.gob.mx/

New Zealand Patent Office
http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms

Russia Patent Office
http://www.fips.ru/ruptoen/index.htm

Singapore Patent Office
http://www.ipmenu.com/country/singapore.htm

South Africa Patent Office
http://www.cipro.co.za/2/home/

World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

International Patent Office Fees

Australia Patent Office Fees
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/patents/fees_index.shtml

Canada Patent Office Fees
http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/en/wr00142e.html?OpenDocument

Europe Patent Office Fees
http://www.european-patent-office.org/epo/new/supp_04_02_tab.pdf

India Patent Office Fees
http://ipindia.nic.in/ipr/patent/patents.htm

Israel Patent Office Fees
http://www.wipo.int/pct/guide/en/gdvol2/annexes/il.pdf

Japan Patent Office Fees
http://www.jpo.go.jp/quick_e/index_tokkyo.htm

Korea (South) Patent Office Fees
http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/eng/

New Zealand Patent Office Fees
http://www.iponz.govt.nz/cms/patents/forms-and-fees

Singapore Patent Office Fees
http://www.ipos.gov.sg/topNav/form/

Biotechnology Resources

GenBank
(NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/

ATCC
(A global nonprofit bioscience organization that provides biological products, technical services, and educational programs to private industry, government, and academic organizations around the world)
http://www.atcc.org/

PubMed
(NCBI's Database developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

BLAST
(NCBI's BLAST or Basic Local Alignment Search Tool is a sequence similarity search tool designed to support analysis of nucleotide and protein databases.)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/

BankIt
(NCBI - A convenient way to submit sequence data)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BankIt/

Index to Organism Names
http://www.organismnames.com/


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