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Patents


Patents are a vital source of information for the business community. You can check what research is being done in an area, solve problems by identifying solutions via patents, look at trends, find marketplace gaps, avoid legal infringement or find a process you need for a business. 80% of information within patents is never published elsewhere.
For more patents links, follow up our pages on Intellectual Property to find more on patents, trademarks, etc ...

UK Patent Office
Valuable information how to register a patent, trademark etc and guides covering the whole topic.

UK Intellectual Property
Valuable information how to protect your intellectual capital and exploit it within your firm.

European Patent Office
Top site for accessing 4 pages of information on any Patent worldwide - ideal for UK, Europe, and US and Japan. Search engine lets you pick out patents you need.

Japanese Patents
Patents from Japan. These are in English.

US Patents
US patents, searchable, indexed and in depth text.

Delphion (IBM) Global Patents
Patents worldwide but only US free on this easy to use system, 4 pages plus drawings, You may have to pay a fee to access reports outside US - just use European Patents site.

WIPO
World Patents Body.

Trademarks
Check out trademark registrations within UK via this site.

Domain Names
Register and check web Domain names via this site.



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