If you are new to the patent or trademark process, there is an excellent resource offered by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in the form of a website, at www.uspto.gov. Some of your basic questions can be answered by consulting that website.

If you have basic copyright questions, the Copyright Office has an excellent website that can be accessed at www.copyright.gov

If you have questions about lawsuits in federal court in the District of Minnesota, you should access the website of our local court, at www.mnd.uscourts.gov

If you would like a Record of Invention Form to use to record your innovative efforts, please contact us and we will be pleased to provide you with one.

The following listing also contains useful links and resources.

Biotechnology

• Biotechnology Industry Organization: www.bio.org
• Mass Biotech Council: www.massbio.org
• MNBIO: www.mnbio.org
• NY BioTech Org: www.nyba.org

Copyrights

• CCC: www.copyright.gov
• ASCAP: www.ascap.com
• BMI: www.bmi.com

Courts

• US Court of Appeals for Fed. Circuit: www.fedcir.gov
• USDC, MN: www.mnd.uscourts.gov

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Domain Names

• Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy: www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm
• www.icann.org
• www.whois.net

Entrepreneurs

• Netsuds: www.netsuds.com
• UCSD Connect: www.connect.org
• Medical Alley: www.medicalalley.org

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property Owners: www.ipo.org
• Licensing Executive Society: www.lesi.org
• U.S Patent and Trademark Office: www.uspto.gov

International

• VRN Patent Authority: www.vagn.dk/patent/patentauthority.html
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
• European Patent Office (EPO): www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php
• Japan Patent Office (JPO): www.jpo.go.jp/

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Libraries

• Edward Bennett Library: www.ll.georgetown.edu
• IP info Mall: www.ipmall.fplc.edu
• Library of Congress: www.loc.gov
• WWW Virtual Library: http://vlib.org

Patent Offices

• US: www.uspto.gov
• Europe: www.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php
• UK: www.patent.gov.uk/

Patents

• USPTO search Database for Patents: www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• Delphion: www.delphion.com
• IFI claims: www.ificlaims.com
• Micropatent: www.micropat.com
• PCT Gazette: www.wipo.int/pct/en/gazette/index.jsp
• ReedFax: www.reedfax.com

Professional Organizations

• AIPLA: www.aipla.org
• ABA IP: www.abanet.org/intelprop/home.html
• AIPP: www.aippi.org
• FICPI: www.ficpi.org
• MIPLA: www2.mnbar.org/mipla/
• Licensing Executive Society: www.usa-canada.les.org/

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Regulations

• FCC: www.fcc.gov
• FTC: www.ftc.gov
• FDA: www.fda.gov

Patent Searching

• USA Patent Search:www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• EP Patent Search: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=1caefk.1.1
• PCT Search: www.wipo.int/ipdl/en/search/pct/search-struct.jsp

Software and Internet

• Mass software and Internet council: www.masoftware.org/

Telecomm

• Telecomm: www.sdtelecom.org/

Trademarks

• US Trademark App. Status: http://tarr.uspto.gov/
• Thompson & Thompson: www.t-tlaw.com/
• Name Protect: www.nameprotect.com/
• WHOIS: www.whois.net
• US Trademark Search: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=sci8nn.1.1
• UK Trademark Search: www.patent.gov.uk/tm/dbase/goodsclass/

U.S. Federal Government

• Edgar Sec: www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
• FedWorld Info Network: www.fedworld.gov/
• Dept of Justice: www.usdoj.gov/
• Commerce Business Daily: http://cbdnet.gpo.gov/
• LII: www.lii.org

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