LibGuides: Patent Resources: Professional Associations & Websites

Professional Assocations & Conferences

American Bar Association: Intellectual Property Law Section As part of the American Bar Association, the section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL) is a highly respected and influential voice of the IP bar.
National Inventors Hall of Fame We honor the greatest inventors who have built the world around us, inspire the innovators of tomorrow and challenge today’s creative thinkers to design the future.
Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association The Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association’s mission is to discover the interests, needs, opinions, and goals of the Patent and Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs), and to advise the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in these matters for the benefit of PTRCs and their users, and to assist the USPTO in planning and implementing appropriate services for the PTRC’s, their staffs and patrons.
United Inventors Association of America The United Inventors Association is paving the way to an innovative future by providing the nations’ finest tools to aid and support every inventor at every stage throughout the inventing process.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information and cooperation.
World Trade Organization The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible.

Websites

Center of IP Understanding The Center for Intellectual Property Understanding is an independent non-profit that raises awareness about the impact of IP on people, business and society. CIPU provides outreach to improve IP literacy and promote sharing. The Center facilitates discussion of IP and shares information about the impact of IP rights – patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets.
Free Patents Online Complete Patent Searching Database and Patent Data Analytics Services.
Google Patents Google Patents includes over 120 million patent publications from 100+ patent offices around the world, as well as many more technical documents and books indexed in Google Scholar and Google Books, and documents from the Prior Art Archive.
The Lens The Lens at its core is an aggregator of metadata, combining three unique content sets and one management tool as a base offering. This base supports the four primary functions of the Lens, which are to discover, analyze, manage and share knowledge.
National Inventors National Inventors honor the greatest inventors who have built the world around us, inspire the innovators of tomorrow and challenge today’s creative thinkers to design the future. Follow their blog to learn more.
US Patent and Trademark Office Link to the United States Patent and Trademark Office website.
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO): Knowledge and Resources Center WIPO is the world's most comprehensive source of data on the intellectual property (IP) system, as well as of empirical studies, reports and factual information on IP.