Teaching Chemical Information:
Tips and Techniques
— August 1998 —
Internet Guides on Patents, Inventions and Technology Transfer
Patents
- Kuester Law
http://www.kuesterlaw.com/
- Award-winning compendium of Internet legal sites, with a special focus on
technology law and intellectual property.
- Franklin Pierce Law Center
http://www.fplc.edu/
- Leading independent law school focusing on intellectual property. Runs summer IP
courses, publishes journals, etc. Maintains a good variety of links at the:
- FPLC Intellectual Property Mall
http://www.fplc.edu/IPMall/
- Patent Portal
http://www.law.vill.edu/~rgruner/patport.htm
- Developed by Richard S. Gruner, Professor of Law, Villanova, this site aims
to identify the growing number of patent-related resources available on the
Internet, to index and organize links to these resources in order to give
this portal rapid access to the Internet's patent resources, and to present
new materials on patent issues (such as the patentability of software and
biotechnology discoveries) that are currently shaping patent law.
- The Intellectual Property Reference Library
http://www.servtech.com/~mbobb/
- Broad collection of resources for inventors as well as for IP professionals.
- Intellectual Property Center
http://www.ipcenter.com/
- Includes information on the marketplace, news, employment, practice areas, resources,
tech law, and law firms. Provider: The New York Law Publishing Company.
Inventions
- The Lemelson-MIT Awards Program's INVENTION DIMENSION
http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/invention_dimension.html
- In 1994, one of America's most prolific inventors of all-time, the late Jerome H.
Lemelson and his wife, Dorothy, established the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This site includes information about
the Lemelson-MIT Awards Program, many famous inventors in the “Inventor of the
Week and archives” section, as well as Invention related links and resources
covering areas such as hot research and development across the U.S., sites
for kids and the kid in all of us, invention and innovation at MIT, resources
for the inventor, and invention extensions.
- The Mining Company
http://inventors.miningco.com/
- Includes wide variety of popular information on three broad areas: computer
science, science, and inventors.
Technology Transfer
- Stanford University. Office of Technology Licensing
http://otl.stanford.edu/
- Entrepreneurial Information: Internet Tech Transfer Resources
http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/resources.html
- Includes information on companies (finding, creating, funding, managing access),
commercial evaluation/market research, technology transfer organizations, and
legal resources.
Patent Databases
- Derwent's Patent Resource Center
http://www.derwent.com/resource/resource.html
- Includes an overview of the history and development of patents, patent showcase —
patents which have changed our lives, patent glossary, patent news, patent discovery,
patent pointers, and document delivery. Derwent is a major database producer of patent
information.
- Patent Pointer
http://www.derwent.co.uk/patpointer/infoanalyser.html
- Full-text index of patent sites provides fast access to other patent information
resources on the web. Developed by Derwent, a major database producer of patent
information.
- Questel-Orbit Guide to Patent Resources on the Internet
http://www.questel.orbit.com/readings/patguide.html
- Includes Associations and Membership Organizations, Educational Institutions, Information
Producer/Distributor, Patent Offices, and Other Intellectual Property Sites. Orbit Questel
is a database producer and supplier of patent databases.
- Guide to STN Patent Databases
http://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/stn/documentation/patents/index.html
- Includes descriptions of all patent databases available through STN. Also includes main
search strategies used to search patent files.