Intellectual Property Links
- Intellectual Property Offices
- Intellectual Property Organizations
- Database Providers
- Official Registers and Databases
- Official Gazettes
- Official Examination Guidelines and Publications
- Classifications
- Courts
- Legal Regulations
- Case Law Databases
Intellectual Property Offices:
- African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
- Albanian Patent Office
- Algerian Patent Office
- Andorranian Patent and Trademark Office
- Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
- Argentine Patent Office
- Austrian Patent Office
- Australian Patent Office
- Patent Office of Azerbaijan
- Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office of Barbados
- Patent Office of Belarus
- Belgian Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of Belize
- BENELUX Designs Office
- BENELUX Trademark Office
- Bolivian Patent Office
- Patent Office of Bosnia and Hercegovina
- British Patent Office
- Brazilian Patent Office
- Bulgarian Patent Office
- Canadian Patent Office
- Chilenian Patent Office
- Chinese Patent Office
- Colombian Patent Office
- Community Plant Variety Office
- Community Trademark Office
- Congolesian Patent Office
- Croatian Patent Office
- Cuban Patent Office
- Cyprus Patent Office
- Czech Patent Office
- Danish Patent Office
- Patent Office of the Dominican Republic
- Dutch Patent Office
- Egyptian Patent Office
- Egyptian Copyright Registration Office
- Estonian Patent Office
- Eurasian Patent Office
- European Patent Office
- Finnish Patent Office
- French Patent Office
- Georgian Patent Office
- German Anti Trust Office
- German Patent and Trademark Office
- Greek Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of the Province of Guangdong (Hong-Kong and Macao)
- Hong Kong Patent Office
- Hungarian Patent Office
- Icelandic Patent Office
- Indian Patent Office
- Indonesian Patent and Trademark Office
- Irish Patent Office
- Israeli Patent Office
- Italian Patent Office
- Jamaica Intellectual Property Office
- Japanese Patent Office
- Jordan Patent Office
- Patent Office of Kazakhstan
- Kenyan Patent Office
- Korean Patent Office
- Patent Office of the Kyrgyz Republic
- Intellectual Property Office of Laos
- Latvian Patent Office
- Lithuanian Patent Office
- Luxemburg Patent Office
- Macedonian Patent Office
- Malaysian Patent Office
- Patent- and Trademark Office of Malta
- Mexican Patent Office
- Patent Office of Monaco
- Moroccan Patent Office
- Moldova Patent Office
- Nepalese Patent and Trademark Office
- Netherlands Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
- Bureau for Intellectual Property of the Netherlands Antilles
- Patent Office of Nicaragua
- Intellectual Property Department of the Nigerian Ministry of Commerce
- Norwegian Patent Office
- Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trademarks, Designs, Models)
- Pakistani Patent Office
- Panama Patent Office
- Paraguayan Patent Office
- Patent Office of Papua New Guinea
- Peruvian Patent Office
- Philippine Patent Office
- Polish Patent Office
- Portuguese Patent Office
- Romanian Patent Office
- Russian Patent Office
- Intellectual Property Office of Serbia and Montenegro
- Singapore Patent Office
- Slovakian Patent Office
- Slovenian Patent Office
- Patent Office of Sri Lanka
- South African Patent Office
- Spanish Patent Office
- Swedish Patent Office
- Swiss Patent Office
- Syrian Patent Office
- Taiwanese Patent Office
- Patent Office of Tajikistan
- Thai Patent and Trademark Office
- Patent Office of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisian Patent Office
- Turkish Patent Office
- Patent Office of Turkmenistan
- Ukrainian Patent Office
- Uruguayan Patent Office
- US Patent and Trademark Office
- Uzbekistan Patent Office
- Vietnamese Patent Office
- World Industrial Property Organisation
- Yugoslavian Patent Office
Intellectual Property Organizations:
- ABAPI - Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents
- ACID - Anti Copying In Design
- ACG - Anti-Counterfeiting Group
- AFPA - Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys
- AICPI - Association of Italian Corporate Patent Professionals
- AIM - Association des Industries de Marque
- AIPLA - American Intellectual Property Law Association
- AIPLA - Austin Intellectual Property Law Association
- AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
- Anti Trust Commission of the European Union
- APAA - Asian Patent Attorneys Association
- APIPA - Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Association
- APLF - Association of Patent Law Firms
- APRAM - French Association of Legal Practitioners of Trademarks and Designs
- APTMA - Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys in Ireland
- ASIP - Arab Society for Intellectual Property
- ASIPI - Interamerican Association of Industrial Property
- Association of Bavarian Patent Attorneys
- AustLII - Australian Legal Information Institute
- BdP - Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys
- BEDA - Bureau of European Designers' Association
- BMM - Benelux Association of Trade Marks and Design Law
- BNEF - Brand Names Education Foundation
- BPLA - Boston Patent Law Association
- CEIPI - Center for International Industrial Property Studies
- CIPA - Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
- CIPR - The Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights
- CNCPI - French Institute of Industrial Property Attorneys
- COAPI - Association of Spanish Patent Attorneys
- Chamber of Czech Patent Attorneys
- DENIC - German Internet Authority
- DEV - German Association of Inventors
- DIP - Association of Danish Industrial Property Executives
- EC - European Commission
- EIPA - European Institute of Public Administration
- EIPLA - European Intellectual Property Association
- ECTA - European Communities Trademark Association
- EPI - Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
- EU - European Union
- FAST - Federation Against Software Theft
- FEMIPI - European Federation of Agents of Industry in Industrial Property
- FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
- GACG - Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group
- German Patent Bar Association
- HIPLA - Houston Intellectual Property Law Organization
- HKITMP - The Hong Kong Institute of Trademark Practitioners
- IACC - International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition
- ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
- ICC - International Chamber of Commerce
- IFIA - International Federation of Inventors' Associations
- IILP - The Institute of International Licensing Practitioners
- IIP - Institute of Intellectual Property Tokyo
- IIPA - International Intellectual Property Alliance
- IIPI - International Intellectual Property Institute
- INTA - International Trademark Association
- Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
- InterNIC - International Internet Authority
- IPBA - Intellectual Property Bar Association
- IPIC - Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
- IPLA - Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
- IPLAC - Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago
- IPO - Intellectual Property Owners Association
- IPSANZ - Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
- IPTA - Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys of Australia
- ITC - International Trade Commission of USA
- ITMA - British Institute of Trademark Attorneys
- JIII - Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
- JIPA - Japan Intellectual Property Association
- JPAA - Japan Patent Attorneys Association
- KPAA - Korean Patent Attorneys Association
- LESI - Licensing Executives Authority
- LIDC - International League of Competition Law
- MARQUES - Association of European Trademark Owners
- MIPLC - Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
- MINDS - Malaysian Invention & Design Society
- NAPP - National Association of Patent Practitioners
- NIPI - National Institute of Industrial Property in Brazil
- NIPO - National Intellectual Property Organization of India
- NOO - Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys
- NYIPLA - The New York Intellectual Property Association
- OPEV - Austrian Association of Patent Owners and Inventors
- ÖPAK - Austrian Patent Bar Association
- PAVIS - Service Organization for German Patent Attorneys
- PIPLA - Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
- PIRP - Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys
- PTDLA - Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association
- PTOS - Patent and Trademark Office Society
- RIPLA - Rochester Intellectual Property Association
- SAIIPL - South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law
- SFIPLA - San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association
- SIPF - Association of Patent Attorneys in Swedish Industry
- Chamber of Patent Agents of the Slovak Republic
- SPOF - Association of Swedish Patent Attorneys
- SUEPO - International Staff Union of the European Patent Office
- SVIPLA - Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Association
- UN - United Nations
- VESPA - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys registered before the EPO
- VIPS - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys in Industry
- VPP - Association of German Patent Engineers
- VSP - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys
- WCO - World Customs Organization
- WIPLA - World Intellectual Property Law Agency
- WTO - World Trade Organization
Database Providers:
- AvantiQ - Trademark Search
- B.V.S. - Database of German expert witnesses in all technical fields
- Compu-Mark - Global Provider of Trademark Information and Trademark Research Services
- DERWENT - Patent and scientific information
- Delphion - Information provider
- Dialog - Document delivery and databases
- DIMDI - Medical database
- Edital - Trade Mark Searching & Watching, IP Management and Online Information Tools
- EuCor - Trademark and company name searches
- FreePatentsOnline
- German gazette of protected titles
- GBI - German business information database
- PATONline - Online ordering of patent publications
- Rote Liste - German pharmaceutical database
- SEAGIS - Trademark database provider
- Questel - Commercial Data Provider
- SPI - Software Patent Institute (searchable database)
- STN - Technical Information Centre Karlsruhe
- Subito - Online Document Delivery Service
- Thomson & Thomson - Commercial Trademark Database Provider
- WPS - World Patent Service
Official Registers and Databases:
- Algerian Patent and Trademark Database
- Andorranian Register of Trademarks and Company Names
- Argentine Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Australian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Australian Plant Breeders Database
- Austrian Register of Patents, Utility Models, Trademarks and Designs
- Austrian Database of Publications of Patents
- Belgian Patent Database
- BENELUX Trademark Register
- Brazilian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- British Patent Register
- British Trademark Register
- British Design Register
- British Company Name Register
- Bulgarian Trademark and Design Database
- Canadian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Canadian Company Name Register
- Chilenian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Chinese Patent Database
- Chinese Trademark Database
- Colombian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Community Design Database
- Community Trademark Register
- Croatian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Cuban Patent Database
- Czech Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Danish Register of Trademarks, Patents and Utility Models
- DEPATISnet - Fulltext Patent Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office
- Register of Trademarks and Company Names of the Dominican Republic
- Dutch Company Name Register
- Dutch Patent Register
- Egyptian Patent Database
- EPO Calendar of Oral Proceedings
- EPO Publication Server
- Esp@cenet - Online Patent Searches
- Estonian Design Database
- Estonian Trademark Register
- Eurasian Patent Database
- EURid - Who-is-database of EU-domains
- EUROACE Database of Goods and Services of OHIM
- European Patent Register
- Finnish Design Register
- French Company Register
- French Official Register
- German Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- German Company Register
- Greek Patent Register
- Hong Kong Register of Designs, Trademarks and Patents
- Hong Kong Trademark Register
- Hungarian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Icelandic Trademark Register
- Indian Patent Database
- Indian Trademark Database
- Indonesian Database of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (deactivate Pop-Up-Blocker!)
- International Trademark Register of WIPO
- International Design Register of WIPO
- Irish Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Israeli Trademark Register
- Israeli Patent Database
- Italian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Japanese Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Design Model Register of Jersey Island
- Trademark Register of Jersey Island
- Patent Register of Jersey Island
- Jordan Register of Trademarks
- Korean Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Latvian Design Model Register
- Lebanese Trademark Database
- Lithuanian Trademark Register
- Trademark Register of Macao
- Mexican Official Register
- Mexican Trademark Register
- Moldovanian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Moroccan Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- New Zealand Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Norwegian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- PCT Database and Online File Inspection
- Peruvian Trademark Register
- Philippine Trademark Database
- Polish Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Portuguese Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Romanian Patent Register
- Romanian Trademark Register
- Russian Register of Patents and Trademarks
- Singapur Patent Database
- Singapur Trademark Database
- Slovakian Register of Patents, Design Models, Utility Models and Trademarks
- Slovenian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Spanish Trademark Register
- Spanish Database of Patents and Designs
- South African Patent Register (password required)
- Swedish Design Register
- Swedish Patent Database
- Swedish Trademark Register
- Swiss Company Name Register
- Swiss Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Taiwanese Patent Register
- Taiwanese Trademark Register
- Thai Patent Database
- Turkish Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- US-PAIR - Online-File Inspection of US Patent Files
- US Patent Assignment Database (searchable)
- US Patent Database (searchable)
- US Patent Register
- US Trademark Database (searchable)
- US Trademark Register
- US-TDR - Trademark Document Retrieval (Online File Inspection)
- Trademark Registers of several US States
- Venezuelan Patent and Trademark Register
- Vietnamese Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
- Who-Is-Database of German Internet Authority DENIC
- Who-Is-Database of International Internet Authority InterNIC
- WIPO Database of Appellations of Origins
- WIPO Database of protected State Emblems and Names, etc.
- WIPO Database of Health Heritage
Official Examination Guidelines and Publications:
- Patent Examination Guidelines of EPO
- Trademark Examination and Opposition Guidelines of OHIM
- Design Model Examination Guidelines of OHIM
- Official Guidelines for Cancellation Procedures against Community Design Model Registrations before OHIM
- National Law relating to the EPC
- Japanese Examination Guidelines for Trademark Applications
- Japanese Examination Guidelines for Patent Applications and Utility Model Applications
- PCT Applicant´s Guide
- MPEP - Manual of Patent Examining Procedure of the US Patent and Trademark Office
- TMEP - Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure of US Patent and Trademark Office
- Guide to the International Registration of Marks under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol
- Administrative Instructions for the Application of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
- WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide
Classifications:
- Argentine Journal of Patents and Trademarks
- Australian Journal of Trademarks, Patents and Designs
- Austrian Patent Gazette
- The Patents & Designs Journal of the British Patent Office
- Bulgarian Official Gazette of Patents and Utility Models
- Community Designs Bulletin
- Official Journal of the Community Trademark Office (OHIM)
- Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic
- Official Journal of the European Patent Office
- Finnish Patent and Utility Model Gazette
- Official Gazette of the German Patent and Trademark Office
- Indian Trademark Journal
- Official Gazettes of the Indonesian Patent and Trademark Office
- Irish Patent Office Journal
- Patent & Utility Model Gazette of Japan
- Official Gazette of the Lithuanian Patent Office
- Norwegian Patent, Trademark and Design Gazette
- Official Gazette of the Panama Patent Office
- PCT Gazette
- Spanish Intellectual Property Bulletin
- Swedish Patent Gazette
- Patent and Design Gazettes of the Swiss Patent Office
- Patent Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office
- Trademark Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office
Courts:
- International Court of Justice
- Internationaler Criminal Court
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Court of Justice
- German Constitutional Court
- German Supreme Court
- Germen Federal Labor Court
- German Federal Finance Court
- German Federal Patent Court
- German Federal Social Court
- German Federal Administrative Court
- German Appeal Court Bamberg
- German Appeal Court Berlin
- German Appeal Court Celle
- German Appeal Court Dresden
- German Appeal Court Düsseldorf
- German Appeal Court Frankfurt
- German Appeal Court Hamburg
- German Appeal Court Hamm
- German Appeal Court Karlsruhe
- German Appeal Court Koblenz
- German Appeal Court Köln
- German Appeal Court Nürnberg
- German Appeal Court München
- German Appeal Court Oldenburg
- German Appeal Court Jena
- German Appeal Court Saarbrücken
- German Appeal Court Stuttgart
- German District Court Aachen
- German District Court Aschaffenburg
- German District Court Bayreuth
- German District Court Bielefeld
- German District Court Bochum
- German District Court Bückeburg
- German District Court Braunschweig
- German District Court Düsseldorf
- German District Court Essen
- German District Court Frankfurt am Main
- German District Court Frankfurt an der Oder
- German District Court Hannover
- German District Court Itzehoe
- German District Court Kiel
- German District Court Köln
- German District Court München I
- German District Court Münster
- German District Court Potsdam
- German District Court Siegen
- German District Court Verden
- German Labor Court Baden-Württemberg
- German Labor Court Düsseldorf
- German Labor Court Köln
- German Labor Court München
- German Labor Court Nürnberg
- German Labor Court Schleswig-Holstein
- German Labor Court Thüringen
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) of the USA
- Mailing List of German Courts with address details
Texts of Legal Regulations:
- European Patent Convention and Implementing Regulation
- Community Trademark Regulation and Implementing Regulation
- Community Design Model Regulation and Implementing Regulation
- Paris Convention
- Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Regulations under the PCT
- Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and its Regulations
- Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) and its Regulations
- Madrid Agreement, its Protocol and Common Regulations
- The Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
- Intellectual Property Protection Treaties
- CLEA - Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (compiled by WIPO)
- US Patent Act (35 USC)
- US Patent Rules (37 CFR)
Case Law Databases:
- Decisions of the European Court of Justice
- Decisions of the German Constitutional Court
- Decisions of the German Federal Supreme Court
- Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the Community Trademark Office
- Decisions of the Opposition Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
- Decisions of the Cancellation Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
- Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
- Decisions of the US Supreme Court
- Decisions of the US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (CAFC)
- Decisions of the WIPO panel in domain name cases
- Trademark Decisions of Swiss Courts (e.g. absolute and relative Grounds for Refusal)
- PCT case law data base
Other Academic Centres for Intellectual Property
- Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture
- Berkeley Centre for Law and Technology
- Birkbeck College, University of London, AHRC Copyright Network
- Chicago-Kent College of Law Institute of Science, Law and Technology
- Chicago-Kent College of Law Center of Law and Computers
- Columbia University’s Kernochan Centre for Law, Media and the Arts
- Edinburgh University’s AHRC Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology
- Fordham University, Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy
- Franklin Pierce Law Center’s IP Mall
- George Mason National Center for Technology and the Law
- Harvard’s Berkman Centre for Internet and Society
- Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore
- Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia
- International Society for History and Theory of Intellectual Property
- McGill Center for Intellectual Property Policy
- Max Planck Institute, Munich
- New York University’s Information Law Institute
- New York University’s Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy
- Norweigian Research Centre for Computers and the Law
- Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre
- Oxford Internet Institute
- Queen Mary, University of London, Intellectual Property Research Institute
- Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics
- Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society
- Strasbourg, Centre D’Études International de la Propriété Industrielle
- UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
- University of Alicante, Magister Lucentinus
- University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law
- University of Melbourne, Centre for Media and Communications Law
- University of New South Wales, Baker McKenzie Cyberpace Law and Policy Centre
- University of Toronto, Center for Innovation Law and Policy
- Yale Information Society Project
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