Patent

:This article relates to the intellectual property right. A land grant is also called a patent.

External links

• Patents in Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition
• IPFrontline? PatentCafe's Intellectual Property & Technology Magazine
• National Inventor Fraud Center - Information about the invention process and invention marketing companies.
• Patent Law Portal - Patent Law News, Articles and Resouces
• mp3board.com - News site which aggregates patent news (and other IP news).
• Paper: Exceptions to exclusive rights and compulsory licenses(incl. experimental and private use)
• Some thoughts on how the patent process may be improved
• Brown & Michaels, PC - General information about intellectual property, including a patent FAQ
• US and Foreign Patent practices (and law changes)
• Patent Information - Information on Patents and Copyrights
• IP Newsflash recent case law and developments regarding patents

Patent Office Web sites and other regional info

• IP Australia incorporates the Patent, Designs and Trade Marks offices
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• U.S. Patent Laws
• History of the United States Patent Office
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Canadian Patents Database
• Japan Patent Office
• Korean Intellectual Property Office
• European Patent Office
• European Network of Patent Databases
• Int. Patent & Trademark Attorneys The Netherlands
• UK Patent Office
• NKPAL's IPRs Division - IPRs information and Patent filing in India.
• World Intellectual Property Organisation
• Innovation and patent information in Italy

Patent organizations

• The Public Patent Foundation
• Intellectual Property Owners Association

Patent discussion

• Quotes from Fritz Machlup report 1958
• Netflix patent buys time - shumans.com article, June 29, 2003.
• IEEE spectrum: Patent Prescription - A radical cure for the ailing U.S. patent system
• Medical Patents: Developing Countries Suffer the Most

Patent searches and downloads

• pat2pdf.org - Free lookup and download of U.S. patents in PDF form
• FreePatentsOnline.com - Free US patent searching database and list of funny patents.
• The Guide to Downloading Copies of Patents from Internet
• Delphion IP Research
• Free US and Worldwide Patent PDFs - Download patents for free.
• IP-Discover - Search and retrieve patents from the public databases.
• search4ip - Free patent search.
• PatentMatic - Free patent downloads (US, European & others).
• PatentCafe's International Patent Database with Semantic / Natural Language Search Engine

Weird and historical patents

• Weird and Wonderful Patents
• Patently Absurd British Patents
• Information on Historical Patents
• Gallery of Historic Patents
• Patently Silly
• IP Funny Blog

Miscellaneous

• PatentCafe Patent Awareness & Competitive Intelligence