Links
Links for property rights searches
- Search page of the DPMA
- Legal status data base of the DPMA
- Search database of the EPO
- Electronic file inspection at the European Patent Office
- Google Patent Search (US Patents)
Links to some patent offices and the WIPO
- German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- US Patent Office (US PTO)
- World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO)
- Japanese Patent Office
Patent attorney organisations, organisations for the legal protection of industrial property rights, ministries
- Chamber of Patent Attorneys
- Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office. (epi)
- German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR)
- Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ)
- Online collection of legal texts (not legally binding!)
- Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF)
- Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
Promotional means
- CORDIS promotion program of the EU
- Stimulation of innovation of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
Service link of the DPMA
At the present time (as of 10/11) the DPMA provides the following links for utilisation/consultation:
Utilisation initiatives and consultation networks
- PIZnet - Patent information centres
- Signo Deutschland (previously: INSTI)
- Patent server of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi)
- TechnologieAllianz (network of patent, utilisation and technology transfer agencies)
- Business startup portal of the BMWi
- Funding advice "Research and Innovation" of the Federal Government
- Deutscher Erfinder-Verband e.V.
- Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK)
- IHK Technology stock exchange in particular list of innovation and technology advisers