Patents

Internet Guides on Patents, Inventions and Technology Transfer

Patents

Kuester Law (http://www.kuesterlaw.com/)

Award-winning compendium of Internet legal sites, with a special focus on technology law and intellectual property.

Franklin Pierce Law Center (http://www.piercelaw.edu/)

Leading independent law school focusing on intellectual property. Runs summer IP courses, publishes journals, etc. Maintains a good variety of links at the:

FPLC Intellectual Property Mall (http://ipmall.info/)

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/)

Broad collection of resources from UC-Berkeley.

Inventions

The Lemelson-MIT Awards Program’s Invention Dimension (http://web.mit.edu/invent/): In 1994, one of America’s most prolific inventors of all-time, the late Jerome H. Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy, established the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This site includes information about the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program, many famous inventors in the “Inventor of the Week and archives” section, as well as Invention related links and resources covering areas such as hot research and development across the U.S., sites for kids and the kid in all of us, invention and innovation at MIT, resources for the inventor, and invention extensions.
About.com: Inventors (http://inventors.about.com/): Includes wide variety of popular information on three broad areas: computer science, science, and inventors.

Technology Transfer

Stanford University. Office of Technology Licensing (http://otl.stanford.edu/)

OTL — For Inventors (http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/inventors.html): Introduces OTLs processes and policies for inventors and their inventions. Includes information about patents, links to resources, and printable and online forms.

Patent Databases

Thomson Scientific’s Information About Patents (http://scientific.thomson.com/support/patents/patinf/)

Answers to frequently-asked questions about patents and the patenting process, reference information on patent terminology and patent searching, plus Derwent publications which will help you understand and use patent information.

Patent Pointer (http://library.dialog.com/bluesheets/html/bl0351.html): Full-text index of patent sites provides fast access to other patent information resources on the web. Developed by Derwent, a major database producer of patent information.

Guide to STN Patent Databases (http://www.stn-international.com/fileadmin/be_user/STN/pdf/search_materials/patents/GuideFull_en_2008.pdf)

Includes descriptions of all patent databases available through STN. Also includes main search strategies used to search patent files.