Prior Art and Research: Social Science Research Network
Another site to search prior art and scholarly articles:
Social Science Research Network SSRN Home Page.
Another site to search prior art and scholarly articles:
Social Science Research Network SSRN Home Page.
EFS-Web is the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) web-based patent application and document submission system. I have been filing all my documents electronically since the USPTO started beta testing electronic filing (and I am shocked to see that some law firms still do not use electronic filing). All documents filed via EFS-Web must be pdfs with embedded fonts, or image-based pdfs.
IBM Technical Journals
IBM Research
Drugs@FDA Glossary of Terms
Blawg.com
abajournal.com (IP Law, Top 100)
The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is an international agreement for filing patent applications having effect in many countries around the world. Although the PCT system does not provide for the grant of “an international patent”, the system simplifies the process of filing patent applications, delays the expenses associated with applying for patent protection in foreign [...]
There are four basic requirements for patentability under the European Patent Convention (EPC): 1) there must be an “invention”; 2) the invention must be “susceptible of industrial application”; 3) the invention must be “new”; and 4) the invention must involve an “inventive step” (Article 52).
Many people who have confidence in their knowledge of U.S. [...]
A list of two-letter codes accepted for use in indicating States, other entities, and intergovernmental organizations in documents relating to international applications under the PCT. The list is part of WIPO Standard ST.3.
Links: USPTO List of Country Codes, PCT Applicant’s Guide.
Delphion has a nice glossary of patent terms.
Link: Glossary of Patent Terms.
You can now search patents with Google. Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO, from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006.
Links: Google Patent Search (via lifehacker)
Senior officials of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as well as a representative from the Patent and Trademark Depository Library Program, will be available live on-line on Thursday, November 16 , from 2 to 3 pm (ET). They will be answering questions and offering tips for independent inventors. Instructions for taking part in [...]
Some sites to search non-patent prior art:
CiteSeer
IBM Research
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Scirus
Search for final decisions rendered by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) here. The USPTO Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) page can be found here.
Links: BPAI Search, USPTO FOIA page.
Web 2.0 + Patents = Patents 2.0? The Peer to Patent Project aims to design and pilot an online system for peer review of patents.
The CAFC has nationwide jurisdiction in a variety of subject areas, including patents. All oral arguments are now available in mp3 format.
The USPTO’s pdf based Electronic Filing System (EFS-Web) will go live on March 17.
Senior officials of the United States Patent and Trademark Office will be available live on-line on Wednesday, February 22, from 2 to 3 pm (ET).
The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) Eighth Edition, Revision 4 has been released. The Manual is published to provide U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent examiners, applicants, attorneys, agents, and representatives of applicants with a reference work on the practices and procedures relative to the prosecution of patent applications before the USPTO.
This [...]
Websites such as shouldexist.org enable users to publish their inventive ideas and collaborate with others to refine and develop their inventions. Users may donate their time and money to the website and to specific projects. Of particular interest is that all discussions and projects are documented, dated, published on-line, and publicly available; this, [...]
FreePatentsOnline.com is a free site for searching US Patents, US Published Applications, and European Patents. The search engine uses a syntax similar to the USPTO search site and adds powerful extensions such as word stemming, proximity searching, and search term weighting.