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• ABOR Policy on Intellectual Property
• Appeals, Court Cases & Interferences
  • Appeals & Interferences (USPTO Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences)
  • For other sources see: Legal Information
• Applications Database
• Applying for a Patent 
  • All forms
  • How to Get a Patent
  • Patent forms
• Assignments
  • Information About
  • Assignments Database
• ASU Invention Disclosure Form
• Attorneys & Agents
• Arizona Technology Enterprises (AzTE)
  
  
• Biographies of Inventors
  
  
• Corrections
  • Description
  • Certificates of Correction file
  • Correction Procedures (MPEP Section 1400)
    
     
• Expired Utility Patents
  • Patent Maintenance Fees database
  • PAIR database 
• Extended Patents
  • Patents Extended under Private Law, 35 USC § 155, and 35 USC § 156
  • PAIR database
    
    
• Famous Inventors, Inventions & Discoveries
• Fees
• Forms
  • All Forms
  • Patent forms
• Frauds & Scams
  • USPTO: Independent Inventor Resources
    • Scam Prevention 
    • Complaint Forum
  • FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
    • Spotting Sweet-Sounding Promises of Fraudulent Invention Promotion Firms
    • "Invention" information search on FTC site
      
      
• Google Patents
• Government Patents Available for Licensing
  • NASA  patents

• Help
  • Help from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
    • Help home page
    • Independent Inventors Page 
    • Invention Assistance Center
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Frequently Asked Questions About Patents 
    • Additional FAQs on the USPTO Web Site
    • General Information Concerning Patents
    • Attorneys and Agents with Licenses to Practice Before the USPTO
  • Help from Nolo Press (publisher of self-help legal books)
    • Nolo Press home page
  • Help from Local Inventor Groups
    • The Inventors Association of Arizona (IAA) is a non-profit organization formed to educate, support and provide a centralized source of information for inventors at all levels
  • Help about Invention Promotion Firms
    To better determine whether or not invention promotions firms are legitimate, first consult the following sites:
    • USPTO: Independent Inventor Resources
      • Scam Prevention
      • Complaint Forum
    • FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
      • Spotting Sweet-Sounding Promises of Fraudulent Invention Promotion Firms
      • "Invention" information search on FTC site
  • Help from Miscellaneous Sources:
    • About.com: Inventors
    • Ask the Inventors 
    • Patenting Art and Entertainment
    • Patents and Property: Words, Words, Words (American Chemical Society)
    • What a Chemist Needs to Know About Patent Law (American Chemical Society) 
    • What Every Chemist Should Know About Patents 3rd edition 2002, and 2006 supplement. (American Chemical Society)
• History of Inventions
• How to Apply for a U.S. Patent
  
  
• Invention Assistance Center
• Inventor Resources
• Issued Patents database
  
  
• Kind Codes
  
   
• Maintenance Payments for Utility Patents
  • Patent Maintenance Fees database
  • PAIR database
• Manual of Patent Classification
• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
  
  
• Number Ranges
  What patent numbers were issued for each year.
  
   
• PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval) database (Public version)
• Patent Application database
• Patent Assignments database
• Patents Granted/Issued database
• Patent Numbers
  •  USPTO
    • Design Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
    • Patents Missing in IMAGE format
    • Plant Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
    • Reissue Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
    • SIRs Missing in FULL TEXT format
    • Utility Patents Missing in FULL TEXT format
    • Withdrawn Patent Numbers (Numbers which do not correspond to an issued patent)
  • Other
    • U.S. Patent Number Guide (Michael White, Queens University)
• PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty) Information 
• Provisional Patent Application
• Payment history for utility patents (PAIR database)
  
   
• Reexamination Certificates file
  
  
• Search for Patents ("Issued Patents" and "Patent Application" databases)
• Statistics
  • Statistics page from this guide
  • USPTO statistics home page
    
    
• TIFF image viewers for displaying USPTO patent images
• Tools for managing patent data
  • Patent Tools
    
             

• Country Codes
• Intellectual Property Offices (worldwide list)
• Inventing the Future - An Introduction to Patents for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
• Kind Codes
• Looking Good: An Introduction to Industrial Designs for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
• Patent Systems
  Explanation of different country's patent systems; helps when interpreting patent statistics from these different entities. 
• Search for International Patents (Espacenet)
• Statistics
  • Statistics (WIPO)
  • Statistics from individual Intellectual Property Offices