PATENTS

• Up-to-date U.S. Patent & Trademark Office News and Notices
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• The 21st Century Strategic Plan and Fee Legislation - Updated Feb. 3, 2003
• The 21st Century Strategic Plan - Revised (PDF version)
• The United States Patent and Trademark Office Fee Modernization Act of 2003
  • Purpose and Need for Proposed Statutory Changes to 35 U.S.C. 41 – Fees
  • Section-by-Section Analysis
  • Comparison of Fee Proposals
• U.S. PTO's Annual Report for 2002

• The MegaLaw.com Copyright Page
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• Recent Supreme Court Patent Decisions - at the Legal Information Institute ("LII")
• Historic Supreme Court Patent Decions - at the LII
• Recent Appellate Court Patent Decisions - at the LII
• Summaries of Important Patent Decisions - at the LII

• U.S. Patent & Trademark Office
• U.S. Constitution:Article I, Section 8 - at the LII
• U.S. Code:U.S. Code Title 35 - Patents
• Code of Federal Regulations:Code of Federal Regulations Title 37 - Patents
• Patent Laws, Consolidated (PDF format)
• Patent Rules, Consolidated (PDF format)



• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
• Patents Guidance, Tools & Manuals
• USPTO Forms
• How to Get a Patent
• Types of Patent Applications/Proceedings
• Index to Manual of Classification of Patents
• Examiner Handbook to the U.S. Patent Classification System
• Patent Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice before the PTO
• USPTO Patent Bibliographic Database - allowing boolean searches of the U.S. Patent Database.

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• Budapest Treaty - on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure.
• Directory of National and Regional Industrial Property Office Websites
• Directory of National and Regional Industrial Property Offices
• EPC Convention - on the Grant of European Patents.
• GATT 1994 - with the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property.
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Patent Cooperation Treaty Special Programs Office Home Page - with free forms and Application information.
• Paris Convention - for the Protection of Industrial Property.
• Strasbourg Agreement - Concerning the International Patent Classification
• Treaty on Intellectual Property - in Respect of Integrated Circuits.
• World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO home page.
• World Intellectual Property Organization - extensive links to Treaties.

• ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
• ABA Section of Science and Technology
• BustPatents.com - A site geared toward the limitation and elimination of bad or overreaching patents, with plenty of original content.
• Derwent Patent and Scientific Information
• Express Search
• Houston Inventors Association
• IBM - Intellectual Property Network - Provides access to a wide variety of patent data, IP resources and related information.
• Inventor World
• Internet Patent Newservice - Suscribe to daily patent news around the world.
• Kuesterlaw - Technology Law Resource
• Lemelson Patents Online
• MicroPlanet
• Patent Cafe
• The Patent Crib Sheet
• Patentdata.com
• Patents.com Intellectual Property Law Web Server
• Patent Law Basics
- at Nolo Press.
• The Patent & License Exchange
• Questel/Orbit - from France Telecom Group.
• Software Patent Institute
• STO's Internet Patent Search System
• Synthalogic IP tools
• The VRN Patent Entry
• Yahoo Patents

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