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Intellectual Property Offices
Intellectual Property Organisations and Institutes
Designs
Patents
Trade Marks
Domain names
Plant Breeders' Rights
Intellectual Property Offices
- UK Intellectual Property Office
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- US Patent and Trade Mark Office
- Japanese Patent Office
- Global Listing of Patent and Trade Mark Offices (UKPO)
- Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM)
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
Intellectual Property Organisations and Institutes
- British Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys
- International Trade Mark Association
- Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
- European Patent Institute
- Association of Patent Law Firms (APLF)
- International Intellectual Property Institute (IIPI)
- AIPPI (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)
- International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI)
Designs
- Guide to the Community Design (OHIM)
- Basic Design Information (CIPA)
- UKPO Designs Information (FAQ, Forms, Fees, Publications)
- Online Registered Community Design Filing (OHIM)
- Community Designs Bulletin
- Searching: UK Design Database (UKPO)
- WIPO (Industrial Designs)
- International Classification for Industrial Designs According to the Locarno Agreement
- UK Design Council
- The Bureau of European Designers' Association (BEDA)
Patents
- Basic Patent Information (CIPA)
- Introduction to Patents (UKPO)
- Patents Guide (WIPO)
- Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
- Institute of Professional Representatives Before the European Patent Office
- Association of Patent Law Firms (APLF)
- PCT Resources (WIPO)
- Searching: US Patent Register (USPTO)
- Searching: EPO Esp@cenet
- Searching: Depatis
Trade Marks
- ITMA introduction to trade marks
- UK Patent Office introduction to trade marks
- The British Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (ITMA)
- International Trade Mark Association (INTA)
- European Communities Trade Mark Association (ECTA)
- UK Trade Marks Act 1994
- UK Patent Office Trade Mark Resources
- OHIM Guide to the Community Trade Mark
- OHIM Online Trade Mark Applications
- Marques (International Trade Mark Owners)
- Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks (WIPO)
- Nice Agreement and Contracting Parties
- Nice Classification of Goods and Services
- Searching: UK Patent Office Trade Mark Databases
- Searching: Community Trade Mark Database (OHIM)
- Searching: Madrid Express International Marks
- Searching: US Trade Mark Applications and Regsitrations Retrieval (TARR)
- Searching: US Trade Mark Electronic Search System (TESS)
Domain names
- Domain Names - Information and Resources (WIPO)
- Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
- InterNIC (information regarding Internet domain name registration services)
- Nominet (UK Domain Name Registry
- ccTLD Database (WIPO)
- UWhois.com (Search Multiple Generic and Country Top Level Domains)
