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Patent & Trademark Offices

Patent & Trademark Government Offices

United States Government

United States Copyright Office (English)
Library of Congress - Copyright Office

Circular 22
How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work

Circular 23
Copyright Card Catalog and the Online Files

        Library of Congress Information System (LOCIS)
          Copyright Office records dating from 1978 to the present including registration
          information and recorded documents are available via LOCIS (Library of Congress
          Information System)

        SEARCHING NIE
          A Notice of Intent to Enforce (NIE) a Restored Copyright is a document filed with
          the Copyright Office for the purpose of providing constructive notice to reliance
          parties that the owner of the restored copyright plans to enforce those rights.
          Notices of Intent to Enforce (NIE) are available for searching in the Copyright Office
          online records through LOCIS. They are included as part of the "Copyright History
          Documents File" (COHD). A search of these records may result in numerous
          documents relating to the same title or name. NIEs may be searched by title,
          alternative title, English translation of the title, name of author and name of copyright
          owner.

        Search LOCIS OnLine via Telnet (VT100) Access
        Search LOCIS OnLine via TN3270 (IBM3270) Access
         Search Copyright Online Files at the Library of Congress

    United States Patent & Trademark Office (English)
    US Patent Biographic Database (Abstract searches), USPTO news, downloadable forms and other
     information.

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Regional Organizations

European Patent Office (English)
European patent information. During mid 1998 first front pages then full patents will be accessable.

EPI (English/French/German)
Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office

OHIM (English/French/German/Italian/Spanish)
Office for Harmonization in the International Market

World Intellectual Property Organization (English/French/Spanish)
PCT information including full PCT user's guide, PCT newsletter and other information.

        PCT Gazette
          The electronic form of the PCT Gazette is a patent information database containing
          the first page data (bibliographic data, abstract and drawing) of published PCT
          applications supporting fully searchable information retrieval and display by users
          on demand. From April 2, 1998, the first page data of applications published each
          week in Section I of the Gazette will be added to the database allowing search and
          display of the current week or all or any subset of the database as required.

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National Government Organizations

Australian Industrial Property Organization (English)
Australian Patent database and Australian Trademark database should be accessable
by late January 1998.

Austrian Patent & Trademark Office

National Institute of Industrial Property (Brazil) (Some English)

Canadian Intellectual Property Office (English/French)

        Canadian Patent Database
          Searchable database of Canadian Patent Biographical data since October 1, 1989.
          Updated monthly, with patent abstracts and earlier data to be added in the future.

        Canadian Trademark Database
          Test version of searchable Canadian Trademark Database of all pending and
          registered trademarks in Canada.

Chinese Patent Office (English)

Croatian Intellectual Property Office

Danish Patent Office (English)

Finland National Board of Patents & Registration

France Industrial Property Institute

German Patent Office

Greek Industrial Property Organization (English)

Intellectual Property Department - Hong Kong Government (English)

Hungarian Patent Office (English)

Italian Patent Office (English)

Japanese Patent Office (English)

Korean Industrial Property Office (English)