How to Avoid UK Trademark Problems

Last Updated: August 22, 2009

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Search for your trademark name on the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) search facility. If the name is OK, apply through the IPO for the trademark. The cost of this is about £200 for one category (e.g. Furniture), plus £50 for additional categories, and will take approximately 6 months…

…or use a Trademark Attorney to ensure no costly mistakes are made!

Institute of Trademark Attorneys

Intellectual Property dictionaries and glossaries

These two are complementary – each site has terms that the other one doesn’t have:

Thomson Glossary of Patent Terms

A Patent Glossary put up by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Intellectual Property

Community Plant Variety Rights

Design, Patent, Trademark and Copyright Information by Da Vinci Design Resource “This site is monitored by John Moetteli, an international patent and trademark attorney.” – from the site< /a>

Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets, put up by Long & Long (law firm)

US Patent And Trademark Kids’ Pages

World Intellectual Property Organization

Technology Market site for connecting buyers and sellers of intellectual property Mentioned in Edupage

Sites for inventors

United Inventors Association of the USA Inventor Resource Internet Pages. Information about inventing, inventors, obtaining a patent, evaluation, marketing and avoiding invention fraud

USPTO Independent Inventor Resources

Patents

Links to patent and other intellectual property information resources put up by the Patents Information service of STB, the science, technology and business wing of the British Library

PatentLawLinks.Com Links For Patent Professionals recommended by Research Buzz

The Patent Information Users Group, Inc. “PIUG is a not-for-profit organization for individuals having a professional, scientific or technical interest in patent information” – from the site. Recommended in Free Pint as a Favourite Tipple

U.S. Patent Law Put up by Cornell University

USPTO Patent Databases Patent Bibliographic and AIDS Databases

National Patent Offices

Canadian Patent Database. Introduction search and view patents

http://gb.espacenet.com/ UK Patent Office “Europe’s network of patent databases”. Search and view European patents

Links to Esp@cenet for patent searching

IP Australia. Search and display patents since 1979

US Patent and Trademark Office Home Page

Link lists to national Patent Offices

for Ignatz by David P. Krivoshik [Mathews, Collins, Shepherd & Gould]” – from the site

Simon Saunders & Daniel Donovan’s Resources: Patent Links from New Zealand Link list, especially for foreign Patent Offices

Humorous patent/related sites