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Patent Search Tools
IP Laws And Regulations
Court Information and Decisions
IP Professional Organizations
IP Government Offices

Patent Search Tools

IBM Intellectual Property Network (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/)
USPTO U.S. Patent Full-Text Database - Boolean Search (http://164.195.100.11/netahtml/search-bool.html)
USPTO U.S. Patent and Applications Search (http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html)
USPTO U.S. Patent Application Information Retrieval (http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair)

IP Laws and Regulations

U.S. Statutes Search Page (http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml)
U.S. Patent Statute (35 U.S.C.) (http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title35/title35.html)
U.S. Trademark Statute (15 U.S.C. §§ 1051-1127) (http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title15/chapter22_.html)
U.S. Copyright Statute (http://www.copyright.gov/title17/)
Intellectual Property Regulations (37 C.F.R.) (http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html)
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), Version 7 (http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep.htm)

Court Information and Decisions

U.S. Federal Courts (http://www.uscourts.gov/districtcourts.html)
U.S. District Court: Northern District of Illinois (http://www.ilnd.uscourts.gov/)
U.S. District Court: Eastern District of Michigan (http://www.mied.uscourts.gov/index.html)
United States Supreme Court Decisions (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/)
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Official) (http://www.fedcir.gov/)
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (Cases) (http://fedcir.gov/dailylog.html)
Federal Circuit Case Search by Keyword (http://www.fedcir.gov/htdig/search.html)
Automated Federal Court Access Information (http://pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov/)

IP Professional Organizations

American Intellectual Property Law Association (http://www.aipla.org/)
Intellectual Property Owners (http://www.ipo.org/)
Licensing Executive Society (http://www.lesi.org/)
International Trademark Association (http://www.inta.org/)
Association of University Technology Managers, Inc. (http://www.autm.net/index.cfm)

IP Government Offices

Algeria - L'Institut National Algérien de la Propriété Industrielle (http://www.inapi.org/accueil/)
Andorra - Oficina De Marques Del Principat D'Andorra (http://www.ompa.ad/)
Argentina - Instituto Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial (http://www.inpi.gov.ar/)
Armenia - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Australia - Intellectual Property Australia (http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/)
Austria - Österreichischen Patentamt (http://www.european-patent-office.org/20th/poster_at.htm)
Azerbaijan - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Belarus - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Belgium - Ministry of Economic Affairs (http://www.european-patent-office.org/patlib/country/belgium/)
Belize - Belize Intellectual Property Office (http://www.belipo.bz/)
Benelux - The Benelux Trade Marks Office (http://www.bmb-bbm.org/)
Brazil - Brazilian Industrial Property Office (http://www.inpi.gov.br/)
Canada - Canadian Intellectual Property Office (http://opic.gc.ca/)
Chile - Chilean Intellectual Property Office (http://www.dpi.cl/tapa.asp?cuerpo=486)
China - State Intellectual Property Office of China (http://www.sipo.gov.cn/sipo_English/default.htm)
Croatia - Republic of Croatia - State Intellectual Property Office (http://www.dziv.hr/)
Czech Republic - Czech Industrial Property Office (http://isdvapl.upv.cz/servlet/page?_pageid=82,110
&_dad=portal30&_schema=PORTAL30)
Denmark - Danish Patent and Trade Mark Office (http://www.dkpto.dk/)
Estonia - The Estonian Patent Office (http://www.epa.ee/)
Eurasia - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Finland - Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus (http://www.prh.fi/)
France - Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (http://www.inpi.fr/front/)
Germany - German Patent and Trade Mark Office (http://www.dpma.de/index.htm)
Greece - Industrial Property Organisation (http://www.obi.gr/online/)
Hong Kong - Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Intellectual Property Department (http://info.gov.hk/ipd/)
Hungary - Hungarian Patent Office (http://www.hpo.hu/)
Iceland - Einkaleyfastofan (http://www.einkaleyfastofan.is/focal/webguard.nsf/key2/indexeng.html)
Ireland - Irish Patents Office (http://www.patentsoffice.ie/)
Italy - Italian Patent and Trademark Office (http://www.minindustria.it/organigramma/index.php?sezione=organigramma&tema_dir=tema2&nodo=149)
Japan - Japanese Patent Office (http://www.jpo.go.jp/)
Jordan - Ministry of Industry & Trade Jordan0 (http://www.mit.gov.jo/default.asp)
Korea - Korean Industrial Property Office (http://www.kipo.go.kr/kpo/user.tdf?a=user.eng.main.BoardApp)
Kyrgyzstan - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Liechtenstein - PATLIB centres in Liechtenstein (http://www.european-patent-office.org/patlib/patlb411.htm)
Macedonia - Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia (http://www.ippo.gov.mk/)
Mexico - Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial (http://www.impi.gob.mx/impi/jsp/indice.jsp)
Moldova - State Agency of Industrial Property Protection (http://www.agepi.md/)
Monaco - Direction de l'Expansion Économique - Division de la Propriété Intellectuelle (http://www.european-patent-office.org/patlib/country/monaco/)
Morocco - Moroccan Office for Industrial and Commercial Property (http://www.ompic.org.ma/english/centre.html)
Netherlands - Netherlands Industrial Property Office (NIPO) (http://www.octrooicentrum.nl/)
New Zealand - The Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (http://www.iponz.govt.nz/pls/web/dbssiten.main)
Philippines - Intellectual Property Office - Philippines (http://www.ipophil.gov.ph/)
Portugal - Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (http://www.inpi.pt/)
Russia - Russian Agency for Patents and Trademarks (ROSPATENT) (http://www.fips.ru/rospatent/index.htm)
Singapore - Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (http://www.ipos.gov.sg/main/index.html)
Slovak Republic - Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (http://www.indprop.gov.sk/ie.htm)
Slovenia - Slovenian Intellectual Property Office (http://www.uil-sipo.si/)
Spain - Oficina Espanola de Patentes y Marcas (http://www.oepm.es/)
Sweden - PRV - the Swedish Patent and Registration Office (http://www.prv.se/)
Switzerland - Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (http://www.ige.ch/)
Taiwan - Chinese Taipei Intellectual Property Office (http://www.tipo.gov.tw/eng/)
Tajikistan - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
Thailand - Department of Intellectual Property (http://www.ipthailand.org)
Turkey - Turkish Patent Institute (http://www.turkpatent.gov.tr/)
Turkmenistan - The Eurasian Patent Organization (http://www.eapo.org/)
United States of America - United States Patent and Trademark Office (http://www.uspto.gov/)