Databases

Below are links to organizations and content related to intellectual property (IP).

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Canada

• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
  • Canadian Patents Database
  • Canadian Trade-marks Database
  • Canadian Copyrights Database
  • Canadian Industrial Designs Database
  • Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents

Japan

• Japanese Patent Office - Intellectual Property Digital Library
  Free online access to JPO's IP records.

USA

• US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property Database
  This database describes and provides information on U.S. utility patents on inventions in biological processes that are used in food and agriculture.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  Patent search

International

• European Patent Office
  • Esp@cenet
    European patent database.
• Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market
  This office registers Community Trade Marks and Community Designs, which grant their proprietors a uniform right valid in all Member States of the European Union by means of one procedural system.
  Databases
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  International Patent Applications
  Madrid Express Database for Trademarks

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