Useful Links for Inventors

Useful IP Links for Inventors

This section aims to provide Inventors with quick access to selected parts of the major Patent Office sites. These sites have been sifted through so that you can arrive more quickly at relevant locations that we think will be most useful to you as inventors.

All of the major sites contain information and helpful hints that have been specifically designed to encourage and demystify the patenting process for Inventors. These pages will not answer all of your questions, but they will enable you to form opinions and make reasonably informed decisions about the next step in your quest and will help you in your quest from having a great idea to the commercialization of that great idea.

You can also find Links to even more information by clicking on the icons labelled “Virtual IP Library”, “Information for SME” to “IP Management”.

The major Patent Office websites are extremely well-stocked with information on just about every aspect of Intellectual Property and, many have points of contact listed on them. All of the Patent Office sites store their information differently so they can take quite a while to get familiar with the way that they work. Sometimes the sites contain so much information that they can be difficult and time consuming to troll through.

If your time is limited though, or you are unsure about what to do next please feel free to e-mail us at webeditor@piperpat.com or contact one of PIPERS IP professionals directly at patents@piperpat.com.

PIPERS has Offices in New Zealand & Australia. We pride ourselves in offering our clients a 24 hour 7 day a week internet reception service for IP enquiries. To learn more about PIPERS and our services please click on the “About PIPERS” link at the left of this Page.

Websites Links

http://www.ip-europe.org/	The IP Europe Project
http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/about_patents.html#protection	WIPO and Inventors help
http://www.european-patent-office.org/_new_patinfo_centers/index.en.php	PatLib
http://patentinfo.european-patent-office.org/index.en.php	European Patent Office (EPO)
http://www.uspto.gov/	United States Patent Office (USPTO)
http://www.copyright.gov/	U.S. Govt. copyright office website
http://www.ipos.gov.sg/main/index.html	Singapore Patent Office (IPOS)
http://www.patent.gov.uk/	UK Patent Office
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/strategies/importance.shtml	IP Australia
http://www.iponz.govt.nz	New Zealand Patent Office (IPONZ)

Patent Filing

http://www.pctfiler.com

International Patent Filings

Patent & Trademark Searching

http://www.patmark.co.nz

Advanced IP Searching & licensing

Learn about patents

http://www.patents.com

http://learnaboutpatents.net

For full listings of all of the Patent Offices please click on to the “Virtual IP Library” icon.