Books/websites: 

The 4-Hour Workweek (has many useful tools, suggestions and gadgets for running a business)

Competitive Intelligence :

 Compete (useful search analytics where you can search a competitor and retrieve useful information like what key words they are using to drive business to their site) Spyfu (spy on your online competitors such as by downloading their keywords and adwords)

Design/Collaboration:

Figma

Icloud:

 IBM SoftLayer

Insurance:

 IPIS PIPERSLinks health insurance (NYC)

Investor Guidance:Automated Equipement:

 Intermec Technologies

Faxing: 

Faxing by email email applications

Hiring:

 Elance

(can hire just about any expert to do anything)

Housing/Office Space

Wework

Lead Generation:

Clio

Incubators:

IdeaLab

Domain Names/Websites/Logos:

GoDaddy Airo (assists not only with traditional features such as domain names but also with building websites and using AI to create logos for your business).

Office Applications: 

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Chat GPT (chatbot) Claude (chatbot)  Gemini (chatbot) Grok (chatbot)

AgentForce 2.0.  (digital labor force) SalesForce

Open Office (a free of charge office productivity suite that does much of what Microsoft Office does. Thus can save you hundreds of dollars) Cute PDF (creates PDFs for free. Alternative to Adobe Acrobat) Everynote (saves everything you want onto your computer from notes, to documents, to business cards)

Snagit (can use to copy screen windows)

Remote PC Access/Virtual Management :   Log me In .  DirectLaw  (a virtual platform for law firms doing remote client services)  First to File (a web-based patent prosecution workflow and document management system)

Box (secure collaboration with anyone, anywhere and on any device; content cloud which provides one place for all virtual employees to work)   Anaqua.  Monday.com (project management, business management).  Lucid (visual collaboration)

Billing/Payment

lawpay.  Clio

Smokeball (NYS bar association specific; helps law firms manage trsut accounting and bill easily).

Payroll: 

ADP     Intuit.   On Pay    Powerpayroll  Paychex    Paycom

Youmail (like having a secretary handle your incoming calls)

Supplies:  

Bio-surplus (used (pre-owned) laboratory equipement)

Surveys:

SurveyMonkey

Office Space

Regus

Security

Credit Card monitoring:  Wallet Hub (free)  Credit sesame  (free)   Credit Karma   (free)

Data Breach: IDX

Identity Theft:

IdentityTheft (government website that helps you report and recover form identiytheft)

Passwords:  KeePass  (password manager)

How to create and use a veracrypt container             How to install Veracrypt on a MacOSx (from Daniel’s technblog)

Statistics for Businesses and Others

Qualtrics (static degenerating products).   Prism/GraphPAD (very good statistical software for scientisits)

Video Conferencing

Zoom 

Books: Introduction to Alternative Credit

Federal Government Grants

Grants.gov below allows one to search for phrases or parts of words, as well as complete words. You can search phrase (e.g., “solar energy” by enclosing your prhases in quotations, represent multiple charaters with an asterisk (fish*) use logical oeprators to combine keywords to refine your search such as OR (water OR conservation), AND (water AND conservation), NOT (water NOT habitate)

GSA System for Award Management (Sam.gov).   Grants.gov.    USAID

Venture Capital

National Venture Capital Association    Atlas Ventures   Fidelity Biosciences     Flagship Ventures

Digital/Fin Tech Businesses:

Flippa Invest (matches buyers and sellers for fintech businesses with growing revenues; blasts emails out to many potential investors and then uses AI to build on this from interested potential investors, utlimately inviting potential investors into your deal room where you can engage; there are requirements (US registered entities with growing revenues))

Venture Capital Brokers: 

Balck Dog Ventures (helps businesses fund, grow and scale their business)

Venture Debt

These are actually loans. Sometimes loans can be more appealling for companies than exchanging equity which might be worth a lot latter on.

Venture lenders will look for companies which are growing (25-100% annually) and at least 10-15 million per year in revenue. These are term loans (2-3 You should look for professional counsel who have experience with venture debt. You team should also have an experienced CFO who has experience in these deals.

Arivc. (also has a lot of information and articles on venture capital).

Government

DOD EPA Laboratory FLC(the FLC (Federal Laboratories Consortium) is a network that all government research labs belong to for the purpose of promoting technology transfer) Brookhaven Larence Livermore Nat’l

USDA USGS INEL JLab Whitehead NIH ESA NASA NASA links

NAVY NIAI NIMH ORNL  SBAMITRE NDCP

Incubator Training:

Neighborhood (innovation center for health tech companies)

Incubators by States

California

Stanford

Florida

UMLSP FSU UMiamiVaccine and Gene Therapy Institute   UM Life Science and Technology Park

Mas Plank (Jupiter, FL) Sanford-Burnham Institute (in Orlando, Fl)

Illinois

Central Indiana IU LSU Purdue Northwestern

Massachusetts

BU Harvard Dartmouth MIT MIT-

Maryland

Johns Hopkins UC

Michigan

UMich

New York

Harlem Biospace   New York Economic Development Corp.   URochester SUNY SUNYSB    

New Jersey

Princeton Physics

Ohio/Oregon

Ohio UOregon

Pennsyvlania

Temple UPenn

Texas

Rice UW NTTC

General

SCIP (global nonprofit organization for competitive intelligence)  Data.gov  (the US government has a wealth of information on companies as well as one’s own personal financial dealings).  Cluster Mapping  (mapping of regional economic clusters).  Thomson Reuters (paid service but very sophisticated tools for monitoring competitors in the intellectual property area)  Commerce Data Hub (can view Department of Commerce agency data all in one site). 

ChatGPT

Financial Health and Stock Assessment

US Security & Exchange Commission     EDGAR Company Filings (can use EDGAR database to search company’s filing such as annual and quarterly reports) 

SEC Company Lookup (provides considerable information on a company including patent and trademark activity) 

Yahoo  Finance Morningstar   Market Research

Investments:

TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities): Treasury Direct

Investment sites:  The DRIP Investing

Marketing

Spyfu (download competitor keywords and adwords)

Patents:

Patent Application Alert Service (obtain alerts from the USPTO as to patents relevant to a particular subject matter). 

Research:

Search.com Switchboard.com Excite Google Hotbot Lycos Yahoo JumpCity Superpages

IDI (investigatory services)

Hoovers FastCompany Biotech Investment (infor for the investor) Bioventureview  Reference USA (a useful site for information on businesses, journals, etc). 

Legal:  Bloomberg Law

Trade:  CIA World Factbook (country specific information)

Tax Considerations

Fairmark IRS

Goliath (company profiles on some 430,000 companies)  Market Research (very comprehensive listing of Industry sections); 

Start Engine (companies which you can invest in; many seel innovative products)

Batteries

Sila (next generation lithium ion battery)

Cybersecurity

SentinelOne

State Listings

Florida

Biospace (listing of start up biotech companies) eflorida (a listing of biotechnology companies in the state of Florida)

Automobiles

Cosco Auto Program  (Cosco member pricing on new and used cars)  Amazon Auto Parts     Tesla (futuristic electric cars)

Fleet/Car Managment (GPS)

Fleetmatics    Google Maps   Waze   Apple Maps      MapQuest

Robots

International Federation of Robotics

AMP Robotics (ensuring correct recyling)

Arbitration

WIPO Alternative Dispute Resolution

Courts:

PACER (search court cases). Scott US Blog (blog which covers US Supreme Court cases; includes briefs filed)

Federal Courts/Laws:

US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit  (this Court is specialized to handle patent cases and appeals from lower courts.  Check out their Rules of Practice)  Oral Arguments (search for oral argument recordings by case)  

Federal Register

–District Courts:

Northern District of New York

Continuing Education:

PLI LESSCIP.orgCompetitive Intelligencelaw.comNatl Law JCityBarNY

IP News:

surfIP

IP Strategy and Valuation:

plxPatentValuePredictor Charles River Associates

IP Enforcement:

Government Agencies

US Border and Protection Control

Agencies

Patent Trial and Appeal Board    Decisions of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board  (note most Board decisions are nonprecedential in nature. Unless a Board decision is marked precedential, it realy holds no weight beyond the case in which it was rendered.)

Private companies

Ipnav  (private company in the business of monitization of patents)

Patent Term Extension:

Patent Term Extension USPTO (also includes list of patents that the PTO has extended)

Patent Laws: 

MPEP

Patent Statistics

USPTO Patent Data

IP Insurance:

IPisc

IP Law:

Agency & Court Decisions :

Board Patent Appeals Decisions Stanford IP Lit Clearinghouse

America Inventors Act:

 Information on AIA provisions (This link at the PTO has information on new provisions of the AIA)  Global Patent Information

Associations: 

IPO 

Agency & Court Decisions : 

Board Patent Appeals Decisions Stanford IP Lit Clearinghouse

Books/Journals:

 JPTOS WIPO Book Shop BNA Books http://www.lawworks-iptoday.com/” style=”color: rgb(255, 159, 101);”>IPToday InvDigest

IP News:

 surfIP

Patent Laws: 

MPEP

IP Enforcement:

US Border and Protection Control

Patent Docketing Software:

PATTSY. Anaqua  Clarivate  Clarivate (Foundation IP)  

Patent Core (this site will analyze your examiner and provide insight on how your examiner will likely decide your case based on prior decisions).

Wellspring (IP management, licensing, and contract management). 

Terminal Disclaimers:

 USPTO eTerminal Disclaimer Resource page

Patent Maintenance:

Patent Term: Patent Term Calculator

Maintenance fees:   USPTO Financial Manager

Patent Valuation:

plx PatentValuePredictor Charles River Associates

Training:

Continuing Education:

 PLI LES SCIP.org Competitive Intelligence law.com Natl Law J CityBarNY

Inventor Conferences Global Intellectual Property Education Database (maintained by the US government with calendar of events worldwide for IP eduction)

Blogs: 

jurinspired  PatentlyO  

Web Links:

Other Patent Link Listings: Duke MIT Pipers Pierce AIPLA Kuesterlaw Neustal NJ Law Network NYLawLinks lawlinks.com NAPP IPmall YahooJMLSAssociations: ABA IPO http://www.napp.org/resources.html” style=”color: rgb(255, 159, 101);”>NAPP

The chances are good that if you get a patent on a successful invention, someone, somewhere will try to violate your rights. This will require enforcement of your patent rights. Patents are also not free. They must be maintained with periodic maintenance Fees.  This section of Ypatent provides helpful links of interest with respect to maintaining and enforcing patent rights. 

Definitions:

Freedom to Operate: refers to a determination that the commercialization of a prodct does not infringe third-part IP rights, in particular patents. Becasue IP rights have a territorial effect and a restricted lifetime only, a FTO analysis does not only focus on the technologies as such, but also considers where IP rights are in force and when they expire. If, in the course of an FTO analysis, IP rights that are likely to be infringed by the commercialization of a given product are detected, one should considr whether or not they are valid and enforceable. If not, respective countermeasures should be considered, like invalidity opinions, oppositions, nullity actions, or post grant review/inter partes review. As an alternative, in-licensing of the respective IP rights could be a solution. Numberous patents can be involved with respect to a product. For example, for ADCs, an FTO anlysis encompasses not only the antibody but also the toxin and linker. Even if a patent has been awarded on a structurally improved second generation antibody, it can still be the subject of ealrier third party patents protecting teh starting antibody, if these are still in force.  (Storz, “Antibody-drug conjugates: Intellectual property considerations” mAbs 7:6, 989-1009, 2015)

General Information on Licensing

LES (Licensing Executive Society) 

Search Patents for licensing

Biotechnology

NIH Pipeline to Partnerships The NIH offers this space for NIH licensees and SBIR/STTR awardees to showcase their technolgy to potential strategic partners and investors.

Patents Generally

Patents 4 Partnerhsips (IP Marketplace Platform from the USPTO)

Technology Finder Tools (use these sites to find technologies from A-Z)

Yet2.com and Inventors spot (if you are looking for that new gadget or gift, this site is for you!)

Patent Pooling: 

 MPEG LA (this company is in the business of forming patent pools where patent owners pool their patents which are then licensed and also enforced. It is probably the wave of the future). 

Buyers for Your Invention:

 Moneyforyourideas  QVC Srouts Product Submission (if you have a product that is ready to sell, this might be a way to get it distributed. There web site listing products is at QVC ). 

Flippa (data base of buyers and sellers of inventions)

Prototyping

JakTool

Packaging Your Product

Doran and Ward Packaging

Exporting Your Invention: 

General Information:  Business select (a service of US government; good manual on how to export). UPS videos (good videos on how to export your product with UPS)

Carriers: (UPS)   

Sales Reps:

Manufacturers Agents

Marketing/Survey Firms:

 Applied Marketing Science Survy.com GOTmarketing Millenium Marketing 

Training:

 PCC Corporate College Supply Chain Management Institute (many courses (online included) for the business professional such as export management,. Gatline Education Services (similar to the PCC Corporate College)