helpful Links
See also Managing Your Business
Helpful Links on Intellectual Property
Auctions (Intellectual Property) : Ocean Tomo IP Auction
Biotechnology Associations: BioAlabama BiotekCanada Biotechnology Industry Organization BCNJ Concept Foundation CURE Georgia NYBA NCbio SC Penn MD VA Scripts Harvard Biotech Club NAS Bio BioWorld UK Biotechnology Association
Biotechnology/energy: Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded money for companies to develop ethanol Earth Policy Institute
Biomedical Literature NCBI NISCAIR (an Indian repository on natural herbs) Merk Manual (a super resource for types of diseases and their treatment)
Bioethics: NBAC
Blogs Holman’s Biotech Blog IP Handbook (a very good resource for IP tools) Patentably Defined (an excellent reference for patent prosecutors too)
Patent Docs (Biotech & Pharma Patent Law) PharmaPatents SpicyIP (Indian IP Law) SCOTUSblog (good coverage of court decisions) WilmerHale
Clinical Trials and Doctors:
ClinicalTrials.gov – Information on Clinical Trials and Human Research Studies ZocDoc (find a doctor in your area)
Center Watch ClinicalStudiesinfonih
Certification:
ASCP NCA AACC AMT AAB ABB AABB (transfusion and cellular therapies) ABFT ABHI ABMGG ABMLI ABMM NRCC
Conference Listings:
Industry and Invenstor Conferences
Depositories
American Type Culture Collection Japan Cancer Cell Bank European Collection of Cell Culture
PatentDocs (biotechnology law and discussion group) IP Edge (discussion group for managing IP assets) Intellectual Property Law Server Patently-O (very good patent legal discussion site) FedCirc.us (discussion of recent Fed patent law cases) Patent Blurb The Fire of Genius The Patent Prospector Promote the Progress Penn Law Social Science Research Network Professional Inventors Alliance (PIAUSA) Inventor Ed Rethink (ip) Ip Frontline Patent Baristas (bio/pharma chat)
Education:
WIPO Academy (intellectual property courses) IEEE (electrical engineering)
Education (blood): SBB education programs
Search Engines
Pub Med Biotechfind Chem Finder Orange Book
Microbiology
ASM Microbeworld and Dana Foundation
U.S. Government Agencies
CDC DOD FDA FTC NCI NIH NHLB FDA Orange Book NIAID NICHD
Consumer Product Safety Commission (can look up recalls on products)
Foreign Trade:
Us IP Attaches (these are attaches around the globe for the US government who can help with foreign trade related questions)
–France Biodocs France BioTech Genepole DRI LEM Lyon GLUC GLyon
Inventors assistance
USPTO inventors Assistance Center
Contracts/Laws/Court Opinions
Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences Information Opinions US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Oral Arguments
Cornell Law (very useful link to find not only the law but also legal forms)
AIA (construction law contracts)
Magazines/Journals
SIGNALS Nature Science Bio-It World
Marketing/Sales
Patent Information/Statistics
IFI Data Visualization Center at the USPTO
Patent Treaties
Pharmaceuticals
Patent Law Organizations :
American Intellectual Property Law Association
Innovationalliance (companies who want strong patents) Business Software Alliance
Intellectual Property Owners Association (Industry group) Phrma (Big Pharma for strong patent rights) Patents Matter Patent Fairness (belive that over-broad patent grants stifle future innovators)
Pharmaceutical Associations:
PhRMA (represents leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies)
Synthetic Biology
Openwetware (construction of productive systems from man-made, biologically-based parts. a hybrid field of synthetic chemistry, biology and engineering) Biobricks Foundation
First Amendment Freedom to Tinker