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Frequently Asked
Questions about Patents and Trademarks
Frequently Asked Questions about Patents:
Excerpted from General Information
Concerning Patents print brochure.
Disclosure Document Program:
It is a paper disclosing an invention
signed by the inventor and forwarded to the USPTO.
Provisional Application For Patent :
A provisional application provides the
means to establish an early effective filing date in a patent application and allows the
term "Patent Pending" to be applied.
Frequently Asked Questions about
Trademarks:
Excerpted from Basic Facts About
Trademarks
Registration of Domain names:
USPTO does not participate in the
process of registration of domain names as locaters. That is done by Network Solutions,
Inc.(NSI) and, now, by other organizations like the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers, or ICANN. Please note that trademark law must be considered when
developing a domain name.
Patent and Trademark
Depository Library:
Complete List of all the Patent and
Trademark Depository libraries in the U.S.
Other Intellectual Property Offices:
The list includes trilateral web sites
(EPO, JPO, USPTO).
World Intellectual Property Organization or WIPO:
WIPO's headquarters is in Geneva,it
administers the Patent Corporation Treaty (PCT). WIPO holdings in the Government Documents Department
go back to 1979. Our resources include PCT Applicant's Guide, PCT Gazette Index, WIPO
Directory, WIPO Report, etc.
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and Agents Search
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