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• African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO)
• Albanian Patent Office
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• Andorranian Patent and Trademark Office
• Patent Office of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf
• Argentine Patent Office
• Austrian Patent Office
• Australian Patent Office
• Patent Office of Azerbaijan
• Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office of Barbados
• Patent Office of Belarus
• Belgian Patent Office
• Intellectual Property Office of Belize
• BENELUX Designs Office
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• Bolivian Patent Office
• Patent Office of Bosnia and Hercegovina
• British Patent Office
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• Canadian Patent Office
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• Colombian Patent Office
• Community Plant Variety Office
• Community Trademark Office
• Congolesian Patent Office
• Croatian Patent Office
• Cuban Patent Office
• Cyprus Patent Office
• Czech Patent Office
• Danish Patent Office
• Patent Office of the Dominican Republic
• Dutch Patent Office
• Egyptian Patent Office
• Egyptian Copyright Registration Office
• Estonian Patent Office
• Eurasian Patent Office
• European Patent Office
• Finnish Patent Office
• French Patent Office
• Georgian Patent Office
• German Anti Trust Office
• German Patent and Trademark Office
• Greek Patent Office
• Intellectual Property Office of the Province of Guangdong (Hong-Kong and Macao)
• Hong Kong Patent Office
• Hungarian Patent Office
• Icelandic Patent Office
• Indian Patent Office
• Indonesian Patent and Trademark Office
• Irish Patent Office
• Israeli Patent Office
• Italian Patent Office
• Jamaica Intellectual Property Office
• Japanese Patent Office
• Jordan Patent Office
• Patent Office of Kazakhstan
• Kenyan Patent Office
• Korean Patent Office
• Patent Office of the Kyrgyz Republic
• Intellectual Property Office of Laos
• Latvian Patent Office
• Lithuanian Patent Office
• Luxemburg Patent Office
• Macedonian Patent Office
• Malaysian Patent Office
• Patent- and Trademark Office of Malta
• Mexican Patent Office
• Patent Office of Monaco
• Moroccan Patent Office
• Moldova Patent Office
• Nepalese Patent and Trademark Office
• Netherlands Patent Office
• Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
• Bureau for Intellectual Property of the Netherlands Antilles
• Patent Office of Nicaragua
• Intellectual Property Department of the Nigerian Ministry of Commerce
• Norwegian Patent Office
• Office for the Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trademarks, Designs, Models)
• Pakistani Patent Office
• Panama Patent Office
• Paraguayan Patent Office
• Patent Office of Papua New Guinea
• Peruvian Patent Office
• Philippine Patent Office
• Polish Patent Office
• Portuguese Patent Office
• Romanian Patent Office
• Russian Patent Office
• Intellectual Property Office of Serbia and Montenegro
• Singapore Patent Office
• Slovakian Patent Office
• Slovenian Patent Office
• Patent Office of Sri Lanka
• South African Patent Office
• Spanish Patent Office
• Swedish Patent Office
• Swiss Patent Office
• Syrian Patent Office
• Taiwanese Patent Office
• Patent Office of Tajikistan
• Thai Patent and Trademark Office
• Patent Office of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago
• Tunisian Patent Office
• Turkish Patent Office
• Patent Office of Turkmenistan
• Ukrainian Patent Office
• Uruguayan Patent Office
• US Patent and Trademark Office
• Uzbekistan Patent Office
• Vietnamese Patent Office
• World Industrial Property Organisation
• Yugoslavian Patent Office

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• ABAPI - Brazilian Association of Industrial Property Agents
• ACID - Anti Copying In Design
• ACG - Anti-Counterfeiting Group
• AFPA - Association of Finnish Patent Attorneys
• AICPI - Association of Italian Corporate Patent Professionals
• AIM - Association des Industries de Marque
• AIPLA - American Intellectual Property Law Association
• AIPLA - Austin Intellectual Property Law Association
• AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property
• Anti Trust Commission of the European Union
• APAA - Asian Patent Attorneys Association
• APIPA - Asia Pacific Intellectual Property Association
• APLF - Association of Patent Law Firms
• APRAM - French Association of Legal Practitioners of Trademarks and Designs
• APTMA - Association of Patent and Trademark Attorneys in Ireland
• ASIP - Arab Society for Intellectual Property
• ASIPI - Interamerican Association of Industrial Property
• Association of Bavarian Patent Attorneys
• AustLII - Australian Legal Information Institute
• BdP - Federal Association of German Patent Attorneys
• BEDA - Bureau of European Designers' Association
• BMM - Benelux Association of Trade Marks and Design Law
• BNEF - Brand Names Education Foundation
• BPLA - Boston Patent Law Association
• CEIPI - Center for International Industrial Property Studies
• CIPA - Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
• CIPR - The Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights
• CNCPI - French Institute of Industrial Property Attorneys
• COAPI - Association of Spanish Patent Attorneys
• Chamber of Czech Patent Attorneys
• DENIC - German Internet Authority
• DEV - German Association of Inventors
• DIP - Association of Danish Industrial Property Executives
• EC - European Commission
• EIPA - European Institute of Public Administration
• EIPLA - European Intellectual Property Association
• ECTA - European Communities Trademark Association
• EPI - Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office
• EU - European Union
• FAST - Federation Against Software Theft
• FEMIPI - European Federation of Agents of Industry in Industrial Property
• FICPI - International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys
• GACG - Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group
• German Patent Bar Association
• HIPLA - Houston Intellectual Property Law Organization
• HKITMP - The Hong Kong Institute of Trademark Practitioners
• IACC - International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition
• ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• ICC - International Chamber of Commerce
• IFIA - International Federation of Inventors' Associations
• IILP - The Institute of International Licensing Practitioners
• IIP - Institute of Intellectual Property Tokyo
• IIPA - International Intellectual Property Alliance
• IIPI - International Intellectual Property Institute
• INTA - International Trademark Association
• Intellectual Property Rights Helpdesk
• InterNIC - International Internet Authority
• IPBA - Intellectual Property Bar Association
• IPIC - Intellectual Property Institute of Canada
• IPLA - Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
• IPLAC - Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago
• IPO - Intellectual Property Owners Association
• IPSANZ - Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand
• IPTA - Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys of Australia
• ITC - International Trade Commission of USA
• ITMA - British Institute of Trademark Attorneys
• JIII - Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation
• JIPA - Japan Intellectual Property Association
• JPAA - Japan Patent Attorneys Association
• KPAA - Korean Patent Attorneys Association
• LESI - Licensing Executives Authority
• LIDC - International League of Competition Law
• MARQUES - Association of European Trademark Owners
• MIPLC - Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
• MINDS - Malaysian Invention & Design Society
• NAPP - National Association of Patent Practitioners
• NIPI - National Institute of Industrial Property in Brazil
• NIPO - National Intellectual Property Organization of India
• NOO - Dutch Institute of Patent Attorneys
• NYIPLA - The New York Intellectual Property Association
• OPEV - Austrian Association of Patent Owners and Inventors
• ÖPAK - Austrian Patent Bar Association
• PAVIS - Service Organization for German Patent Attorneys
• PIPLA - Philadelphia Intellectual Property Law Association
• PIRP - Polish Chamber of Patent Attorneys
• PTDLA - Patent and Trademark Depository Library Association
• PTOS - Patent and Trademark Office Society
• RIPLA - Rochester Intellectual Property Association
• SAIIPL - South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law
• SFIPLA - San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Association
• SIPF - Association of Patent Attorneys in Swedish Industry
• Chamber of Patent Agents of the Slovak Republic
• SPOF - Association of Swedish Patent Attorneys
• SUEPO - International Staff Union of the European Patent Office
• SVIPLA - Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Association
• UN - United Nations
• VESPA - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys registered before the EPO
• VIPS - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys in Industry
• VPP - Association of German Patent Engineers
• VSP - Association of Swiss Patent Attorneys
• WCO - World Customs Organization
• WIPLA - World Intellectual Property Law Agency
• WTO - World Trade Organization

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• AvantiQ - Trademark Search
• B.V.S. - Database of German expert witnesses in all technical fields
• Compu-Mark - Global Provider of Trademark Information and Trademark Research Services
• DERWENT - Patent and scientific information
• Delphion - Information provider
• Dialog - Document delivery and databases
• DIMDI - Medical database
• Edital - Trade Mark Searching & Watching, IP Management and Online Information Tools
• EuCor - Trademark and company name searches
• FreePatentsOnline
• German gazette of protected titles
• GBI - German business information database
• PATONline - Online ordering of patent publications
• Rote Liste - German pharmaceutical database
• SEAGIS - Trademark database provider
• Questel - Commercial Data Provider
• SPI - Software Patent Institute (searchable database)
• STN - Technical Information Centre Karlsruhe
• Subito - Online Document Delivery Service
• Thomson & Thomson - Commercial Trademark Database Provider
• WPS - World Patent Service

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• Algerian Patent and Trademark Database
• Andorranian Register of Trademarks and Company Names
• Argentine Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Australian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Australian Plant Breeders Database
• Austrian Register of Patents, Utility Models, Trademarks and Designs
• Austrian Database of Publications of Patents
• Belgian Patent Database
• BENELUX Trademark Register
• Brazilian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• British Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• British Company Name Register
• Bulgarian Trademark and Design Database
• Canadian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Canadian Company Name Register
• Chilenian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Chinese Patent Database
• Chinese Trademark Database
• Colombian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Community Design Database
• Community Trademark Register
• Croatian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Cuban Patent Database
• Czech Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Danish Register of Trademarks, Patents and Utility Models
• DEPATISnet - Fulltext Patent Database of the German Patent and Trademark Office
• DPMApublikationen - Official German Database with Data of Patents, Utility Models, Design Registrations and Trademark Registrations
• Register of Trademarks and Company Names of the Dominican Republic
• Dutch Company Name Register
• Dutch Patent Register
• Egyptian Patent Database
• EPO Calendar of Oral Proceedings
• EPO Publication Server
• EPONLINE - Online File Inspection of EPO Files
• Esp@cenet - Online Patent Searches
• Estonian Design Database
• Estonian Trademark Register
• Eurasian Patent Database
• EURid - Who-is-database of EU-domains
• EUROACE Database of Goods and Services of OHIM
• European Patent Register
• Finnish Design Register
• French Company Register
• French Official Register
• German Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• German Company Register
• Greek Patent Register
• Hong Kong Register of Designs, Trademarks and Patents
• Hong Kong Trademark Register
• Hungarian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Icelandic Trademark Register
• Indian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Indonesian Database of Patents, Designs and Trademarks (deactivate Pop-Up-Blocker!)
• International Trademark Register of WIPO
• International Design Register of WIPO
• Irish Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Israeli Trademark Register
• Israeli Patent Database
• Italian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Japanese Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Design Model Register of Jersey Island
• Trademark Register of Jersey Island
• Patent Register of Jersey Island
• Jordan Register of Trademarks
• Korean Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Latvian Design Model Register
• Lebanese Trademark Database
• Lithuanian Trademark Register
• Trademark Register of Macao
• Mexican Trademark Register
• Moldovanian Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Moroccan Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• New Zealand Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Norwegian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• PCT Database and Online File Inspection
• Peruvian Trademark Register
• Philippine Trademark Database
• Polish Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Portuguese Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Romanian Patent Register
• Romanian Trademark Register
• Russian Register of Patents and Trademarks
• Singapur Patent Database
• Singapur Trademark Database
• Slovakian Register of Patents, Design Models, Utility Models and Trademarks
• Slovenian Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Spanish Trademark Register
• Spanish Database of Patents and Designs
• South African Patent Register (password required)
• Swedish Design Register
• Swedish Patent Database
• Swedish Trademark Register
• Swiss Company Name Register
• Swiss Register of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Taiwanese Patent Register
• Taiwanese Trademark Register
• Thai Patent Database
• Turkish Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• US-PAIR - Online-File Inspection of US Patent Files
• US Patent Assignment Database (searchable)
• US Patent Database (searchable)
• US Patent Register
• US Trademark Database (searchable)
• US Trademark Register
• US-TDR - Trademark Document Retrieval (Online File Inspection)
• Trademark Registers of several US States
• Venezuelan Trademark Register
• Vietnamese Database of Patents, Trademarks and Designs
• Who-Is-Database of German Internet Authority DENIC
• Who-Is-Database of International Internet Authority InterNIC
• WIPO Database of Appellations of Origins
• WIPO Database of protected State Emblems and Names, etc.
• WIPO Database of Health Heritage

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• Patent Examination Guidelines of EPO
• Ancillary Regulations to the European Patent Convention
• Trademark Examination and Opposition Guidelines of OHIM
• Design Model Examination Guidelines of OHIM
• Official Guidelines for Cancellation Procedures against Community Design Model Registrations before OHIM
• National Law relating to the EPC
• Japanese Examination Guidelines for Trademark Applications
• Japanese Examination Guidelines for Patent Applications and Utility Model Applications
• PCT Applicant´s Guide
• MPEP - Manual of Patent Examining Procedure of the US Patent and Trademark Office
• TMEP - Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure of US Patent and Trademark Office
• Guide to the International Registration of Marks under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol
• Administrative Instructions for the Application of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• WIPO Guide to Intellectual Property Worldwide

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• International Patent Classification according to the Strasbourg Agreement
• Nice Classification of Goods and Services
• International Classification for Industrial Designs according to the Locarno Agreement
• International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks under the Vienna Agreement

• Argentine Journal of Patents and Trademarks
• Australian Journal of Trademarks, Patents and Designs
• Austrian Patent Gazette
• The Patents & Designs Journal of the British Patent Office
• Bulgarian Official Gazette of Patents and Utility Models
• Community Designs Bulletin
• Official Journal of the Community Trademark Office (OHIM)
• Bulletin of the Industrial Property Office of the Czech Republic
• Official Journal of the European Patent Office
• Finnish Patent and Utility Model Gazette
• Official Gazette of the German Patent and Trademark Office
• Indian Trademark Journal
• Official Gazettes of the Indonesian Patent and Trademark Office
• Irish Patent Office Journal
• Patent & Utility Model Gazette of Japan
• Official Gazette of the Lithuanian Patent Office
• Norwegian Patent, Trademark and Design Gazette
• Official Gazette of the Panama Patent Office
• PCT Gazette
• Spanish Intellectual Property Bulletin
• Swedish Patent Gazette
• Patent and Design Gazettes of the Swiss Patent Office
• Patent Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office
• Trademark Official Gazette of the US Patent and Trademark Office

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• German Constitutional Court
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• German Federal Administrative Court



• German Appeal Court Bamberg
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• Mailing List of German Courts with address details

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• European Patent Convention and Implementing Regulation
• Community Trademark Regulation and Implementing Regulation
• Community Design Model Regulation and Implementing Regulation
• Paris Convention
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Regulations under the PCT
• Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and its Regulations
• Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) and its Regulations
• Madrid Agreement, its Protocol and Common Regulations
• The Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• Intellectual Property Protection Treaties
• CLEA - Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (compiled by WIPO)
• US Patent Act (35 USC)
• US Patent Rules (37 CFR)

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• Decisions of the European Court of Justice
• Decisions of the German Constitutional Court
• Decisions of the German Federal Supreme Court
• Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Opposition Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Cancellation Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
• Decisions of the US Supreme Court
• Decisions of the US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (CAFC)
• Decisions of the WIPO panel in domain name cases
• Trademark Decisions of Swiss Courts (e.g. absolute and relative Grounds for Refusal)