Useful IP/IT Websites
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www.patents.gov.uk
This is the website of the UK Patent Office. It contains lots of useful
information about UK intellectual property, including a facility to
search their design right, patents and trade marks databases for free.
www.uspto.gov
This is the website of the United States Patent and Trade Mark Office.
It contains lots of useful information about US intellectual property,
including a facility to search for free pending and registered US trade
marks, and granted US patents (full text since 1976) and applications
(published since 15 March 2001).
www.wipo.int
This is the website of the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
It contains lots of useful information about intellectual property,
including intellectual property legislation world-wide.
The UK Patents Court Diary
This is a link to the Patents Court Diary where you can see what intellectual
property cases are to be heard before the specialist Patents Court
in the UK and the outcomes of past hearings.
www.oami.eu.int
This is the website for the Office of Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(OHIM) and is the body to whom Community Trade Mark and Community Design
applications are made. This website contains information about how
to apply for Community rights and the procedures for doing so.
www.nic.uk
This has lots of useful information about domain names and, in particular,
about Nominet’s dispute resolution policy.
www.copyright.gov
This is the website of the United States Copyright Office. It contains
lots of useful information about US copyright and, in particular, how
you can go about applying to register your copyright in the US.
www.companieshouse.gov.uk
This is the website of UK Companies House. It contains practical information
regarding compliance with UK company law and includes a facility to
search for UK companies, and obtain information about them.
www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
This is the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office (formerly
the Data Protection Agency). It contains practical information about
your legal obligations in relation to data protection and enables you
to register online the Information Commissioner’s Office online.
www.nccglobal.com/escrow/
This is the website of the NCC Group – a leading UK based organisation
offering escrow services to the IT industry.
www.dsiescrow.com
This is the website of DSI Technology Escrow Services – a leading
US based organisation offering escrow services to the IT industry.
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