Useful links

 

Recognised for its occasional vicious and cynical look at the technology sector, a useful gossip site is The Register

For business and technology news, we recommend Cnet. The Cnet site has a very good search feature, so if you need some background on a tech. story, it'll almost certainly be covered somewhere in the CNet archive.

Mandatory for monitoring up and coming flotations is the Red Herring site.

Intellectual Property news and fun for everyone is provided by the IPKat site.

For patent searching, the US Patent and Trademark Office site is good, since it allows full-text Boolean searches.

The UK Intellectual Property Office (formerly The Patent Office) has many good resources and links.

The Delphion site is also good and includes US, European and PCT files.

The Dialog pay as you go site is recommended for trade mark searches and for non-US patent searching.

The European Patent Office handles patent applications for the Contracting States of the European Patent Convention.

The Japan Patent Office receives more patent applications than any other Office.

The World Intellectual Property Organization handles international patent, trade mark and design applications.

The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market handles applications for trade marks and designs in the European Union.

Google Patent can provide a rewarding alternative search.

The European Court of Justice site has case law on European competition and trade mark law decisions.

Esp@cenet is very good for researching international patent families.

Prosecution histories of US patents and patent filings can be found here

The US Patent and Trademark Office's TESS site provides a good search facility for US federal trademarks.

British and Irish full text legal decisions are available online from bailii.org

US full text legal decisions are available online from the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University.

Patstats.org provides statistics on the outcomes of US patent litigation.

The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators site is a place to start if you are interested in arbitration, mediation or adjudication services.

Information about the London Court of International Arbitration is available here

The US Supreme Court and US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have sites.

PACER provides subscription services for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.

The website for the EU's Directorate General for Competition is here

EUR-Lex provides online access to European law.

The American Intellectual Property Law Association site is here

US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division Guidelines provide important information for US intellectual property transactions.

The Japan Fair Trade Commission site has important information for intellectual property transactions in Japan.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission provides the EDGAR searchable database.