Patent Office and Country Databases

Patent and Trademark Office. URL http //www.uspto. gov. Information about U.S. patents and patent law. Free searchable databases U.S. patents and published appfications, fiill text from 1996 and images from 1836 browsable Official Gazette U.S. patent assignment records Patent Application 

Information Retrieval (PAIR) status of pending U.S. published applications and granted U.S. patents and U.S. trademarks. 

European Patent Register. URL http //www.epoline.org/. Patent status records for European patents and PUT applications designating the EPO. Also includes online patent application hling and inspection capabilities. 

World Intellectual Property Office. URL http //www.wipo.int/. Information about WIPO, international treaties, and the PUT, with links to the following WIPO databases at http // www.wipo.int/ipdl/en  

Japan Patent Office. URL http //www.jpo.go.jp/. Information in English and Japanese about Japanese patent, design, and trademark law and searchable databases in Japanese and English. The Patent and Utility Model Gazette, Patent Abstracts of Japan, and Trademark databases are in English. Status information and document copies are displayable and machine translations can be generated for Japanese patent applications published since 1993. 

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