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►Patents

United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Patent search page - search patents and applications.
• Assignments search - patent and trademark assignment search.
• MPEP - Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (current version).
• Patent Forms - patent related forms.
• Classes - classes by number.

Electronic Filing

• PAIR - Patent Application Information Retrieval.
• EPAS - Electronic Patent Assignment System to file patent assignments electronically.
• Login - EFS and PAIR login.
• EFS/PAIR Registration - register for EFS and private PAIR.

International

• UKIPO Patents Status Enquiry - UK application status.
• EPO - EPO patents and applications search.
• WIPO PATENTSCOPE - search patent prosecution documents for PCT cases.
• WIPO Electronic Filing - electronic filing for PCT.

Tools

• Peer to Patent - opens up the patent examination process to third party input.
• Patent Tools - tools for making claim charts, and a patent information table generator.
• ToolPat - US patent prosecution tools for patent attorneys and agents.
• Patent Calendar - calculates patent term.
• Google Patent search - user-friendly text search of all US patents, but OCR for older patents is not perfect.

Patent PDF Downloads

• FreePatentsOnline - can do USPTO style searching.
• PatentMatic - European, Japanese, PCT and US patents.
• Patent Fetcher - US and EPO patents.
• PAT2PDF - US patents.

►Copyrights

• US Copyright Office - main page

►Trademarks

• USPTO main trademarks page
• TESS - Trademark Electronic Search System.
• TMEP - Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure.

►General Tools

• Google Alerts - Automatically emails updated search results for news, blog entries, and website changes (e.g. keep up with news on clients).
• Internet Archive: Wayback Machine - an archive of most websites. Provides a cached version of websites spanning several years. Useful for trademark research, as well as in litigation. For example, it can be used to determine when prior art was first published on a website.
• OneLook Dictionary Search - searches 937 dictionaries.
• Biographical Directory of Federal Judges - quick access to biographical data about federal judges.

►Blogs

• EDTexweblog.com - Eastern District of Texas Federal Court Practice: All Patent cases, by Michael C. Smith.
• Patent Troll Tracker - by "Just a lawyer."
• GovTrack.us - keep up with pending legislation (via email update).
• The Patent Librarian's Notebook.
• Anticipate This!.
• Filewrapper.com.
• Financial Aspects of Intellectual Property.
• The Invent Blog.
• The IPIP [Incredibly Practical Intellectual Property] Blog.
• Just a Patent Examiner.
• Patent Law Blog (Patently-O).
• Patent Prospector.
• patentablydefined.com.
• Patently Academic.
• PHOSITA :: an IP Blog!.
• Pierce Law IP News Blog.
• Promote the Progress.
• Rethink(IP).
• Russ Krajec's Anything Under The Sun Made By Man.

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