Useful Links
Official Registers
These sites enable the status (namely whether or not patent applications / patents / designs / trade marks are in force) to be determined.
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For status and prosecution history of European patent applications |
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For status of UK patents, EP(UK) patents, UK trade marks and UK designs including renewal fee payment records |
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For status of Community Trade Mark applications or registrations |
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For status of specific US trade marks |
Searching
These sites enable patents and trade marks to be identified, by searching using key words or bibliographic data, and also enable the countries in which protection exists to be identified.
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A fee-charging search provider for world-wide patent specifications and family member information |
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User-friendly interface for searching the fee-charging dialogue databases (Pharmaceutical, R&D, IP, Financial and other areas) |
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Command line searching of the fee-charging dialogue databases (Pharmaceutical, R&D, IP, Financial and other areas) |
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Full text and drawings of US patents available free of charge, with advanced searching capabilities |
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Full text and drawings of PCT, European and national patents/applications available free of charge, although currently only covering publications in recent years |
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for status of Community Trade Mark applications or registrations |
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US Trade Mark database searchable to ascertain whether an identically-spelled trade mark has been applied for/registered |
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Searchable database of abstracts of Japanese patents and applications, which displays the complete document. Machine translation into English is available by selecting "Detail" on output documents |
Legal decisions
Searchable texts of Intellectual Property decisions.
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EPO Technical Board of Appeal and Enlarged Board of Appeal decisions |
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Selected legal decisions from the UK Courts |
Professional Institutes
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The Chartered Institute of Patent Agents |
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The Institute of registered Trade Mark Agents |
Other Bodies
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Computer Patent Annuities Limited Liability Partnership, an organisation handling payment of renewal fees worldwide. Renewal fee payments for clients of Elkington and Fife are normally handled by CPA |
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This site enables on-line searching of UK Limited Company names |
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This site enables UK web domain ownership to be checked |
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A domain name search site which may be used for ".com", ".org" and ".gov" website names |
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The UK's Intellectual Property Office site |
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The EPO site |
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The OHIM site |
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The WIPO site |