Domains:

Domain Naming: Name LabDeleted Domain Names enomDomain Registration: Register.com RegisterflyDirectNIC domainiteasyspace instantdomainnternic joker nameregistrations namesecure newdomain 1domain 101domain

Security: 

TLO (investigative software)  (identify theft protection)

Software:

Anti-virus Software : AVG Anti-virus software (free) Spyware: Windows Defender Firewall Software : Sygate

Web site hosting :

 listingsWebPromoteOsborneFeature PriceSiteU Best search engines 1&1

Website design : 

Web Design/Management Tools: Drupal (free software which allows one to easily publish and manage a wide variety of content on a website.NVU Designs/Logos:    AIGA    3schools.com

Photographs:  

NIH   TinEye (reverse engineer any photograph)  TinyPNG  (optimize images –resizing to make take up less space before uploaded to your website makes your site run quicker)

PDF files:  Wondershare  (all-inon-one PDF editor)

 Website Speed:

GTmetrix (will analyze the speed of your site and what you can do to improve it). 

Video Software:

DebugMode (video composition and special effects software which is free to download)

Analytics: 

Int’l Facts(obtain statistics on your target audience) WebMaster (crawling and indexing analytics by google) yahoositexplorer (similar go google)  Speedtest.net (test the speed of your internet connection)

Trade Shows :

Trade Show Central

 (lists oragnizations for virtually every industry, profession or interest)

Seminars and Writing:

American Seminar Leaders Association (ASLA) – (get paid for giving seminars)

WritersMarket (where and how to sell what your write)

Taxes

IRS (Tax witholding estimator, other links from IRS)

General Sites

JDobkiniicorpBMerickMarketLaunchers MoneyforIdeas CMSAd agenciesAT&TTechSavyHKGlobalWorld YellowpagesStatUSATradeportInfoMineMedEquipmentFreeClassifiedsinfoUSARetailAdvisorsMarketing Virtual LibraryAMAMarketing Links  SBA Learning Center (many educational materials on how to market your invention). 

Advertising tools:

Googles Ad words and Ingenio (this one is a little different; you get charged by the phone call rather then when someone clicks on your site) Clickbank (you can either promote and get paid for clicks or sell your own product) Commission Junction (another affiliate marketing tool) Associates (affiliate marketing with Amazon) Amazon Website Magazine (a nice listing of free web listings for businesses) Yelp

Analytics: Int’l Facts (obtain statistics on your target audience)

 WebMaster (crawling and indexing analytics by google) yahoositexplorer (similar go google)  Speedtest.net (test the speed of your internet connection)

Software:Anti-virus Software : AVG Anti-virus software (free) Spyware: Windows Defender Firewall Software : Sygate

Trade Shows : Trade Show Central

 (lists oragnizations for virtually every industry, profession or interest)

Prototyping

JakTool 

Distribution of your Product

Distribution of Life Science Products

McKesson (pharmaceutical distribution, medical supplies and pharmacy technology and services)

International Trade:  International Trade Administration (ITA)

USPTO Patent Data

Flippa (data bases on buying and selling businesses)

Drafting and obtaining a patent might be the easiest part with respect to a new invention. Marketing a making money off your invention requires not only a lot of skill but also persistance. This section of Ypatent brings together links of interest which may be useful in this endeavor. 

Patent Docketing Software:

  CPI      IPDS        PATTSY

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

Terminal Disclaimers:  USPTO eTerminal Disclaimer Resource page

Patent Management, Storage and Billing Software:

NetDocuments  AppCol  Microsoft365 

Helpful Drafting Software:

Drafting Software: Autodesk CadKey (convert any document to pdf; useful for PTO submissions)

Autodesk
www.usa.autodesk.com/
An American Corporartion that focuses on2D and 3Ddesign software for use in architecture, engineering and building construction, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.

CadKey
www.kubotekusa.com/products/cadkey.html
DKEY is a 2D/3D Mechanical CAD (Computer Aided Design or Computer Aided Drafting) software application released for various DOS, UNIX, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

Cutepdf (convert any document to pdf; useful for PTO submissions)
www.cutepdf.com/

Microsoft Visio (useful for drafting simple drawings) 

Drafting and filing a patent application is a time consuming process and takes skill. However, there are many books (including the Complete Patent Kit) which can assist you in this process.

This section of Ypatent contains useful links to help you in drafting a patent application. The links are meant to supplement “The Complete Patent Kit, Third Edition”. 

Plant Patents:

The United States has a plant protection system but most countries (e.g., Europe) it is not possible to have a patent on a variety of plant in itself. 

This is a type of patent issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that protects a distinct and new variety of plant that has been asexually reproduced.

In the United States, new plant varieties can be protected through three types of intellectual property (IP): plant patents, utility patents, and plant variety protection. Additionally, plant breeders can also protect information of value 

Plant Variety Protection: 

The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) is an international treaty that provides protection for new plant varieties, and the US is a member.

UPOV PRISMA (over 70 countries covered, including USA; part of WIPO)

USDA Plant Variety Protection (The Plant Variety Protection Office (PVPO) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides intellectual property protection in the form of plant variety protection certificates to breeders of new varieties of seeds, tubers, and asexually propagated plants. The certificates protect varieties for 20 years (25 years for vines and trees).

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): 

As discussed in the Complete Patent Kit, the PCT allows an applicant/inventor to file say a provisional or US patent application and then within 12 months file a PCT application (typically in the local office) and then within 30 months enter all of the designated countries (e.g., US, Europe, China, Japan, etc) that the applicant wants to obtain protection. Accordingly the PCT allows an applicant an additional 18 months from that 12 months from when the PCT application is filed to make decisions such as whether or not the invention might be patentable (because searches will be done in the PCT) before spending a lot of fees on prosecuting the application in all the designated countries. 

How to file your PCT Applicaiton

ePCT filing software (this software is recommended for filing your PCT as it has a lot of checking capabilities) Users using ePCT can log into the system with their WIPO account. See ePCT user guide for how to create a WIPO user account.

Patent Offices: 

Canada European Patent Office (general EPO site)   European Patent Registrar (contains file wrappers for European filed applications)  Great Britain     Japan   UKAustralia    USPTO (recent patent office related notices) USPTO  Global Patent Search (search Chinese and other foreign patents)

 India patents     Taiwan 

Free Patent Searchable Databases:

 Europe’s networkUSPTO   Google Patents     IP.com InnovationQ Plus 

Patent Lens Google Patent Search TACSY (WIPO) CAMBIA

Freepatentonline (fast patent searching with PDF downloading) WIPO (PCT)

WIPO Gold (one stop searching for patents, trademarks, domain names, etc)

Neifeld (good listing of databases as well as laws) Wiki Patents (reviews and rates patents)

Patent Family Searching:  

EPO Common Citation Document    EPO Common Citation Document Direct Link

Global Dossier

Classification Searching: 

 Espacenet classificaiton search (enter a US Patent number in the smart search space, pick one of the results, click on one of the classification links you can find on your pulled up result which will bring you up to the CPC code scheme where you can select a seocnd hyperlink of relevant to your invention, this will bring you to a page with a “classificaiton search” tab in the uper left corner, checking the box of desired CPC codes automatically populates the “selected classification” fields, use the “copy to search form” to populate and “advanced search feature” window)

Fee Based Databases:

Digipatenthttp://www.questel.orbit.com/index.htm?subject=http://www.questel.orbit.com/index.htm” style=”color: rgb(128, 128, 0);”>QuestelDialogGlobal Art MicroPatent Lexis Westlaw Delphion IAMcafe IP

PatBase (available for annual fee)

Foreign Patent Information:

 CIPAInternational IP SocietyPCT at the WIPO

General Search Engines:

Googleyahoomsndogpile (searches multiple search engines) Searchenginewatch (lists other search engines) clearinghouse (excellent site for search engines by subject) Educationindex (listing of best search engines by subject)

Literature Search Databases

Google Books (search for through thousands of books)  Google Scholar (use to find scholarly references) Microsoft Acadmic (allows search by author, conference, journal, organization, year, visualization) IP.com (an excellent resource to search literature that may invalid patents)   Science.gov (searches over 60 databases and ofer 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies)

Search the Deep Web

Deeperweb (search into the deep web)  Dogpile   Yippy

Specialized Prior Art Databases:

 Proteins/synonyms:  Gene Card (searches genes/proteins of interest)  IHOP (semilar to Gene Card. Very good search for proteins and the like to obtain synonyms)  Brenda  (enzyme database)

Clinical Trails:  FDA (good for searching clinical trial information and product approval)

Chemical Searching:  PubChem Project  (from NIH)

Antibody CDR Annotation/numbering (NovoPro) (will find CDRs and FRs in a protein sequence)

Translations:   SIPO Machine Translations (chinese to English).  Advanced Insutrial Property network

Paid (Professional) Search Companies: Cardinal IP  Patent & Trademark SVC   Onsite Patent Services  Express Search   ProQuest Dialog

Plant Patents:

Data Base Searching:

UPOV Plant Variety Database  (global DB; more than 1 million variety entries; can use this to find competitors or even collaborators; information in which company the plant production occurs)

Application: (See drafting and filing your patent application)

Before you set out to patent any invention, you should conduct or have some one else conduct a thorough patent search. There are two main reasons for this. First, you will be in a better position to draft your application if you have a thorough knowledge of the prior art in your field. Second, if your search turns up your own invention, you will want to rethink what it is that you exactly want to try to get a patent on or perhaps even forgoe paying the expense of trying to obtain a patent. This section of Ypatent contains helpful links for conducting your patent search.

General Search Engines:

Google yahoo msn dogpile (searches multiple search engines) Searchenginewatch (lists other search engines) clearinghouse (excellent site for search engines by subject) Educationindex (listing of best search engines by subject)

Literature Search Databases

Google Books (search for through thousands of books)  Google Scholar (use to find scholarly references) Microsoft Acadmic (allows search by author, conference, journal, organization, year, visualization) IP.com (an excellent resource to search literature that may invalid patents)   Science.gov (searches over 60 databases and ofer 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies)  Science Direct (search books, journal articles) . IEEE xplore  (more mechnical electrical)  O’Reilly Media, Inc. (formerly Safari)   Science Direct 

Bibliographic information (correct dates, sites, etc; also remember to right click on pdf which can show creation dates and check Amazon): CAS Source Index (CASSI) Search Tool    (provides accurate bibliographic information)   WorldCat (find items in libaries near you)

Videos:  IET.tv (can browse videos by technology)

Conversions/Numbers

Asknumbers (great tool for finding units having similar values).

Search the Deep Web

Deeperweb (search into the deep web)  Dogpile   Yippy

Specialized Prior Art Databases:

Proteins/synonyms:  Gene Card (searches genes/proteins of interest)  IHOP (semilar to Gene Card. Very good search for proteins and the like to obtain synonyms)  Brenda  (enzyme database)

Clinical Trials:  FDA (good for searching clinical trial information and product approval)

FDA Drug & labels: FDA Label Search  Daily Med  Drugs@FDA

Chemical Searching:  PubChem Project  (from NIH) .  STNext (searches chemical structures; paid site)

Epitope analysis/database:  Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource

Translations:   SIPO Machine Translations (chinese to English).  Advanced Insutrial Property network

Paid (Professional) Search Companies:  Cardinal IP  Patent & Trademark SVC   Onsite Patent Services  Express Search   CPA Global Inc  Patent Hawk

Trademark Searching:  Thomson Reuters (paid service but very power search engine for trademarks) For the specific trademark searching page of see Trademarks Thomson Reuters

File Wrappers/Prosecution History:

Patent File Wrapper (easy way to bring up docuemnt/prosecution history of US Patent Applications

A lot of inventions are not patentable, even if they are new and non-obvious. 

35 USC 101 — 

See the US Patent Office Subject Matter eligibility Guidelines

 Predict whether claim language is eligible

Most information of companies is actually not patented or trademarked. Instead, the information exists in a form of intellectual property called trade secrets. To maintain information as a trade secret, you will need to take steps to insure the secrecy of the information. There are various ways to do this. One instrument which I discuss in my book, “Protect Your Patent” is through the use of confidentiality agreements. Other measures that you can take are security measures such as restricted computer access to information that you want to protect from being divulged to competitors.

Resources for Trade Secrete Law:

The Sedona Conference has many good articles on trade secret protection law. A few of these article direct links are below but you can visit The Sedona Conference website for more articles. 

The Sedona Conference Commentary on Protecting Trade Secrets Throughout The Employment Life Cycle, The Sedona Conference Journal, Volume 23, 2022

Commentary on the Governance and Management of Trade Secrets, The Sedona Conference Journal.

Useful Links: 

TMEP (Trademark Manual Examination Procedure Manual).   Trademark Goods Manual (search for the class for your goods/services) MADRID Protocol (WIPO)  Madrid Goods and Services Manager (lets you find the correct goods and international services class) Customs & Border Protection (CBP) (allows you to register your trademark for a fee enforcement)

Domain Name Dispute Resolution (WIPO) 

Trademarks can be a very important element to a success of products or a business. The fact that many products in the market are successful is often found it’s path to customer’s hand due to their trademarks which enthrust its contentement to a publicity.

 Questions & Answers

How do I know if a name is available to trademark?

USPTO (the Patent & Trademark Office has a trademark section where you can search registered trademarks). TMView (searches across multiple countries) WIPO Global Brand Database

What Information Do You Need to File a Trademark Application ?

For each mark that you seek to register, you would need the following:

1. The name of the mark that you want to register. For the design mark, you should provide a file (gif or jpeg format) through email and explain to show me how you want the mark to appear.

2. The name of applicant of the mark including biographical information such as address.

3. A description of the goods and services for which the mark are to be used.

4. (For the classification, it should suffice, but to be nice, have a description from the application as to the goods and services) TM5 ID List (a list of goods and services from several countries including the USPTO)

5. Indication showing that whether the mark is currently in use or whether the mark intends to be used in the future.

6. Whether the mark has been the subject of any other trademark application in the world.

International Trademark System (the Madrid System):

Madrid System (takes you to the madrid system)

eMadrid (is the actually filing link of the Madrid system above)

You can directly file your trademark in each of the countries you seek protection. Another route is the regional route. For example, EU IPO you can get protection in the 27 member countries of the EPO.

Another option is the international or Madrid route. If you are seeking protection in multiple markets, this system is very convenient. With this system, you can file one form in one language, pay one set of fees and obtain a decision the countries you are interested in a period of 12-18 months. Currently, there are 131 countries which are part of the Madrid System, which is more than 80% of world trade.

You have six months after filing your US trademark application to file for the Madrid System to claim the original filing date of your US application as your priority date

State 1: You first need to have a trademark at least filed in a member country (national office). Your national office will certify the application and send to WIPO.

Stage 2: WIPO will issue a certificate of registration and will let your designated countries know that you are seeking protection.

Stage 3: Your designated offices will evaluate the scope of your protection you are seeking according to their laws with a time period of 12-18 months.

Trademark Search and Monitoring

TrademarkSearch Company