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Intellectual Property: Web Resources

Last Updated: Nov 8, 2023 1:35 PM

USPTO

United States Patent and Trademark Office

PATENTS

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    • Patent basics
    • Process overview
    • Legal assistance and resources
    • Inventor resources
    • International cooperation
    • Patent FAQs
  • Application process
    • Search for patents
    • Learn about patent classification
    • Filing online
    • Checking application status
    • Responding to Office actions
    • Patent Trial and Appeal Board
    • Petitions
  • Maintaining a patent
    • Maintenance fees
    • Correcting your patent
    • Transferring ownership
    • Ordering certified documents

Trademarks

Getting started
Trademark basics
Process overview
Trademark FAQs
Using private legal services
Caution: misleading offers and notices
Madrid Protocol & international protection
Application process
Searching trademarks
Apply online
Disclosure of public information
Checking application status & viewing documents
Responding to Office actions
Abandoned applications
Ordering certified documents
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Maintaining a trademark registration
Keeping your registration alive
Forms to file
Checking registration status & viewing documents
Enforcing your trademark rights/trademark litigation
Transferring ownership


IP Policy

  • IP policy
    • Patent
    • Trademark
    • Copyright
    • Trade secret
    • Enforcement
    • Governmental affairs
    • Economic research
  • International affairs
    • IP Attaché Program
    • IP in China
  • IP rights training & research
    • Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA)
    • eLearning modules
    • IP programs at GIPA
    • Economic research publications

Learning & Resources

  • Resources by audience
    • Attorneys, agents & paralegals
    • Inventors & entrepreneurs
    • Kids & educators
    • Media
    • Researchers & librarians
    • Patent & trademark practitioners
  • Help by topic
    • Fees and payment
    • General FAQs
    • Patents FAQs
    • Trademark FAQs
    • Transferring ownership / Assignments help
  • Services & publications
    • Open data & mobility
    • Federal Register Notices
    • Official Gazette
    • Support centers
    • XML resources
    • Classification
    • Statistics

Tools & Links

  • Operational status
  • Events
  • Newsletter archives
  • Glossary of terms
  • Subscriptions
  • How-to videos
  • IP programs and awards
  • Executive actions
  • More tools & links

Web Resources

Associations


Law Portals


Comprehensive Sites


General How-To


Journals


Law School IP Sites


Copyright


​Cybercrime


Legislation: US & Foreign


Patents & Trademarks