RESOURCES

PATENT LINKS:

US Patent and Trademark Office

Free Patent Searching

• Search USPTO Patents and Publications

• Search USPTO Assignments

  • Classic Search Portal

  • New Search Portal

• Search Espacenet (European and a multitude of other national patent databases)

• World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) patent search

Free PDFs of Patents

• Google Patents

• Pat2PDF

• Espacenet

Patent Prosecution Resources

• USPTO Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) Search

• PatentlyO

• IPWatchDog

• All Things Pros

• IPKat (IP blog focused on EU issues)

TRADEMARK LINKS:

US Patent and Trademark Office

Free Trademark Searching

• Search USPTO Trademarks and Publications

• Search USPTO Trademark Assignments

• Search OHIM (EU Trademark Search)

• Search TMView (search many national trademark collections at once for free)

• World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO) trademark search

Trademark Prosecution Resources

• USPTO Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure