{"id":26405,"date":"2023-12-21T12:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/links\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:13:28","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/links\/","title":{"rendered":"Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1523507317\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-1646424296\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n<section class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<h1>Links<\/h1>\n<p>Without claiming to be exhaustive, here are some useful links on the subject of commercial legal protection:<\/p>\n<h2>Offices, courts and authorities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpma.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">German Patent and Trade Mark Office<\/a> (including links to German patent information centers and patent information offices as well as patent databases)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpatg.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Patent Court<\/a> (including annual reports with the focal points of case law)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentserver.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Patent server of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research<\/a> (including information on legislative projects and funding programs)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.european-patent-office.org\/index_d.htm\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">European Patent Office<\/a> (including decisions of the Boards of Appeal)<\/li>\n<li>OHIM &#8211; Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Foreign national patent and trademark offices (selection)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inpi.fr\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut National de la Propri\u00e9t\u00e9 industrielle<\/a> (France)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpo.go.jp\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Japan Patent Office<\/a> (Japan)<\/li>\n<li>Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi (Italy)<\/li>\n<li>UK Patent Office (United Kingdom)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Patent and Trademark Office<\/a> (USA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Associations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grur.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property and Copyright<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aippi.org\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">AIPPI &#8211; Association Internationale pour la Protection de la Propri\u00e9t\u00e9 Industrielle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aippi.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">German national group of the AIPPI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vpp-patent.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">VPP &#8211; Association of Intellectual Property Experts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentanwaltskammer.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Chamber of Patent Attorneys<\/a> (public corporation of German patent attorneys)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markenverband.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Markenverband<\/a> (Association of the Branded Goods Industry)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Scientific and science-related institutions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiz-karlsruhe.de\/home.html\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe &#8211; Gesellschaft f\u00fcr wissenschaftlich-technische Information<\/a> (provider and mediator of electronic technical information within the STN &#8211; International database network)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ip.mpg.de\/\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law<\/a> (scientific research institute in the field of intellectual property law)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Free research on the Internet<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>espacenet-Europe&#8217;s Network of Patent Databases (search in original-language patent applications (full texts) of all members of the European Patent Organization, the EPO, the WIPO (PCT applications) as well as English-language patent databases of numerous other countries; no claim to completeness and in some cases only taking into account applications of the last 24 months)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/patft\/index.html\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">USPTO Web Patent Database<\/a> (search in the patent documents of the US Patent and Trademark Office)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delphion.com\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Delphion Intellectual Property Network (IPN)<\/a> (search in worldwide patent information (including US applications and abstracts of Japanese applications) and the IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletin (TDB))<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ipdl.wipo.int\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Intellectual Property Digital Library<\/a> (search in WIPO databases: Madrid Express Database (internationally registered trademarks), PCT-Gazette and JOPAL (bibliographic references to publications in scientific and technical journals)<\/li>\n<li>CTM-ONLINE (Trade mark search for Community trade marks (OHIM))<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wipo.int\/portal\/index.html.en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WIPO &#8211; World Intellectual Property Organization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/transpatent.com\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Transpatent GmbH<\/a> (including full texts of German laws\/regulations and international treaties)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentfuehrerschein.de\/\" target=\"_Top\" rel=\"noopener\">Patentfuehrerschein<\/a> A service from the Institute for Information, Communication and Media Law that enables virtual training in the field of patent law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23693,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-transparent-header-light.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26405","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26405"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26960,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26405\/revisions\/26960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}