Useful Links

Useful Links

• The UK Patent Office web site has information not only on patents, but also on other forms of intellectual property protection, such as registered trade marks, design registration, as well as copyright and other unregistered intellectual property rights.
• The British Technology Group is a global technology investment and development company operating in the life and physical sciences industry sectors.
• The British Library Science Technology and Business Patents Information Service
• The European IPR Helpdesk is a central reference point for Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enquiries established by the European Commission.
• Intellectual Property: Government-backed home of UK Intellectual Property on the Internet.
• The European Patent Office has set up a free service on the Internet - esp@cenet(r) - giving researchers free access to a wealth of technical information. It is now possible to run an introductory search easily on more than 30 million patent documents.
• United States Copyright Office
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• AURIL (Association for University Research and Industry Links) Offers a web based listing of technologies patented by Universities. Established by Auril with support from the UK Patent Office. Access details of new technologies that are available for licence or other exploitation opportunities with named contacts.

Public Databases

For a search of publications in scientific journals, input keywords supplied by inventor into search field in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed.

• Espacenet patent database http://ep.espacenet.com/
• Us patent office www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
• UK intellectual property office: www.ipo.gov.uk/
• Companies house: www.companieshouse.gov.uk/
• Scottish institute for enterprise: www.sie.ac.uk/
• University of Aberdeen IP policy: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/hr/policies/intellectual.shtml