Patent Information Users'Group Inc. - The International Society of Patent Information

Associations

Meta Sites

EPO site - Useful addresses for IP professionals, including dozens of links to virtually every country in the world whose patent office has a web site, patent information providers, and search engines.
IP Menu from Phillips Ormonde & Fitzpatrick. Also includes intellectual property resources news.

National and International Patent Publishing Authorities

Canadian Patent Office

Patent Reference Sites

International Patent Classifications (WIPO)
International Patent Applications (WIPO)
US Patent Classifications

Consultants and Services

Access Patent Group-APG, LLC - A Patent & Trademark & Copyright professional service firm specializing in searching worldwide patent and non-patent literature in various areas such as electronics, electrical engineering, computer, communications, telecommunications, printing, mechanical, semiconductor, Internet, E-commerce, software, chemical engineering, chemistry, etc. with reasonable cost.
Altimatia, LLC - Altimatia provides patent searching services, scientific literature searching services, and patent prosecution services. We specialize in the pharmaceutical, chemical, and biotechnology areas.
Barbara Hurwitz - Searching consultant
Bio Intellectual Property Services - Patent searches in Chemical/Pharmaceutical/medical/Biotech arts. Contact Sam Zaghmout, registered US Patent Agent and former USPTO examiner
Computer Patent Annuities (CPA) - CPA has managed IP for over 35 years. Patent services include renewals, analytics (reports and consultancy), and outsourced IP support services. Trademark services cover renewals, online and offline watching, and searching. Software products bring web-based IP management solutions to attorney firms and corporations. Domain name services are also offered.
Dextrasys Technologies - An India-based patent services outsourcing company that provides patent searching, patent application writing, patent abstraction, patent drawings / illustration, and trademark searches to global business and professional customer.
Dolcera LLC - An international services firm specializing in intellectual property, market research and competitive strategy for North American, European and Asian clients. Our carefully developed processes ensure consistent and accurate results. Internally developed analysis tools give our team a significant edge. We have delivered complex analysis and research projects in areas including telecommunications, enterprise software, advertising, chemistry, petrochemical, polymers, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, electronic, mechanical, cell and tissue culture and medical devices. Our expertise lies in IPMap interactive visual analysis & collaborative, extensible online reports.
E-Merge tech Global Services - An India-based Intellectual Property services company providing IP services such as prior art searches, state of the art searches, validity searches, infringement searches, FTO searches, patent mapping, landscaping studies, technology tracking, white space analysis, patent analysis for in/out licensing, patent drafting, portfolio analysis, patent tracking and competitive intelligence studies, to international customers, with multi discipline and multi country expertise.
Envision IP, Inc. - A DC-based patent research firm, focusing on patentability, invalidity, and clearance searches. We have a multi-disciplinary team, and our practice areas are headed by former PTO examiners. Expertise in EE, ME, biotechnology, chemistry, software, and business methods inventions. Envision IP has been serving clients across the globe since 1994.
First Principals, Inc - Technology assessment, marketing, and commercialization services, including patent licensing.
Hilltop Consultants, Inc. - IT consulting services to IP Law Firms, document providers, and other vendors. Experienced in implementing IP management systems and document management systems. Contact Jim Turner.
Infoco System - Patent current awareness service based in Denmark.
Innovation Asset Group (IAG) - Innovation Asset Group (IAG) empowers companies with DECIPHER™, an integrated software solution for the management of intellectual property assets and the contractual agreements that surround them.
Inrea Research - Inrea Research is a full service patent research and analytics company supporting CEOs, R&D departments, IP departments, attorneys, strategy developers, security analysts and Venture Capitalists to harvest a wealth of knowledge from an ocean of patents. Clients use our primary research and analytics services to assess self and competitor portfolios, explore licensing and partnership opportunities, evaluate technologies and their trends, gain competitive insights, monitor patents, corporation and inventors and perform prior art searches; we help you manage your IP and drive R&D strategies effectively.
Integrity Intellectual Property - Patent Portfolio services including patent application appeals and reexamination proceedings. Having locations and clients in both Europe and California, IIP is a full service patent prosecution firm available for immediate consultation regarding your intellectual property concerns.
International Technology Information - TechnoProfile™: Low cost, fast turnaround technology portfolio analysis by patent classification mapping. For a demo, go to www.intechinfo.com and click on the TechnoProfile™ button.
ipIQ® - Intellectual Property. Intelligence Quotient (Formerly CHI Research) - With over 30 years of experience and over 200 published research reports from the CHI Research legacy, ipIQ is a world leader in technology analysis. Our broad client experience spans from Governments across the globe, to investment banks and private equity firms, to the Fortune 100. Based on this foundation, our people focus on enabling clients to meet their Intellectual Property future head-on.
IP Partner - The creator of ip-savvy™ and ip-invent™ series of proprietary tools for patent analysis and mapping, client and industry specific and in-depth patent analysis for biotechnology, medical, data storage, software, energy industries.
Landon-IP - specializes in professional prior art searching for the legal and research community. We also provide patent analytics and business intelligence services for attorneys, product managers and research scientists. Landon IP conducts searches for patent attorneys so they may counsel clients on patentability, infringement, freedom to operate, state of the art, and validity. The company also conducts complex technical analysis in support research and development, patent valuations, and IP licensing.
Marentech Research - Patent research & technical analysis specialized in polymers & associated products conducted by a highly qualified Ph.D. polymer chemist with extensive international experience in academic & industrial R&D and intellectual property assessment in English, German and French.
Martin Goffman Associates - Patent searching, competitive intelligence, litigation support, consulting services.
Maxval - A patent process solutions company with strong domain expertise in medical devices and hi-tech electronics. MaxVal strives to add new service offerings on a continual basis in helping clients maximize the value of their patent holdings, using automated tools and a global workforce. Our services range from various types of prior art searches and reports including, market / IP survey reports, litigation, identifying potential buyers, alerts on patent proceedings, database creation and maintenance including Portfolio Manager, Contracts Organizer, Litigation Database and mapping/visualization of patent portfolios, and patent illustrations.
Metrics Group - Standard and custom patent analytics reports based on proprietary & licensed patent mining, text mining, and clustering tools. Also offers patent citation alerting service and free citation search and display tool through patentcitations.com.
metroPatent - Intellectual property research
MicroPatent - Specialized business analysis and consultation in intellectual property, competitive intelligence, chemistry, life sciences, and engineering. Call for a complimentary introductory discussion regarding your business needs and issues.
Patent Awards – Plaques and Frames To Showcase Your Intellectual Property Achievement - Custom framed patent displays and hand-crafted patent plaques with the convenience of online ordering!
PatentPlaques.com – A woman-owned company and leader in the Intellectual Property awards industry that has been supplying clients worldwide with custom high quality Patent Plaques for over 15 years. We invite you to browse PatentPlaques.com for our latest styles of wood plaques and acrylic patent awards. Online ordering is available.
Patentec - Patent Searches, specializing in high technology subjects such as Internet applications and Genetic Engineering.
Patents from RU - Document delivery and info on Russian patents.
Patents & Technology Surveys - European based law and patent search firm that specializes in information technology, telecommunications and software patents searches. All searches are made by former search examiner with the European Patent Office.
PATSCAN - Patent & Trademark Searches - Patentability searches across a broad spectrum of technology, including chemical structure and nucleotide sequence searching. Also performs portfolio studies and competitive intelligence work related to patents.
Perquisitum - Expert search services, including prior art, validity and freedom to operate searches, carried out by experienced UK-based information professionals.
PLX Systems - IP asset management and valuation.
Quaestio - Information Retrieval Service - International novelty patent searches, specific searches of Italian patents, utility models and designs and copyrights, and a wide range of related searches.
Red Chalk Group – An IP professional services firm chosen by clients seeking unique insight to their most challenging and urgent intellectual property related issues. We serve senior executives as well as investment professionals with custom consulting services, investment research, and patent data and statistics. Our efforts integrate business, technical, and legal expertise while leveraging our proprietary patent database and network of technical experts to deliver decision-grade results. Our approach is quick and efficient, providing the information and results you need in a timely and economic fashion.
RWS Group - Searching and translation services.
Science IP - Science IP provides fast, accurate, and comprehensive searches of the world’s scientific and patent literature.
SciTech Patent Art Services, Inc. - An Intellectual Property services firm with highly qualified technical personnel to provide services such as Prior art search, analysis and mapping; Novelty assessments; FTO searches; Validity searches; White space identification; Patent Alert; SAO analysis. We do in-depth analysis for variety of discipline areas.
Specialized Patent Services - Specialized Patent Services-Validity and Infringement searches, Mechanical, Electrical, Computer, etc. 703-415-1555
Technology & Patent Research (TPR) International - A full service search firm dedicated to providing a superior level of patent and non-patent literature searching expertise to IP Professionals. TPR services encompass expert online database searching, as well as manual searches at patent offices and specialist libraries worldwide (U.S., Europe, Japan, China, etc.). Search types include Invalidity, State-of-the-Art, Patentability, Freedom-to-Operate, Patent Watches, Collections, etc. Expertise covers Chemistry, Polymers, Pharma, Biotech. & Sequences, Electronics, Circuits, Semiconductors, Medical Devices, Mechanical Engineering, etc.
Thomson Scientific Search Services - Fast, confidential patent searches for clients worldwide, including competitor intelligence, technology searches and graphical searching of chemical compounds.
Threshold Information Inc. - Threshold Information provides patent and sci-tech information search services, complemented by a strong business and market research practice. Since 1993, food, pharma, and electronics companies – ranging from Fortune 50’s to solo consultants – have utilized Threshold’s high-value-added research and current awareness services to deliver first class research. Visit our Web site, or learn more by contacting us at infopros@threshinfo.com or +1 800-499-8306.
Uppdragshuset - An international provider of professional IPR services, focusing on novelty searches, infringement analysis, invalidation searches, monitoring services, IP-mapping and freedom to operate analysis. All the staff has prior national patent office examiner status, with international PCT examination experience.
WissInfo GmbH - Patent and trademark search service based in Germany.
Wolff Information Consulting LLC - technical and patent search and analysis services to help you meet your business, research and intellectual property objectives. We provide state-of-the-art, patentability, freedom-to-operate, and invalidity searches as well as custom current awareness services, particularly in chemistry and chemical engineering, polymers, and related business and marketing areas.

Database Producers & Suppliers

Chemical Abstracts Service
Current Drugs (Thomson Pharma) - Investigational Drugs Fast Alert.
Current Patents (Thomson Pharma) - Current Patents Gazette and Dolphin.
DrugPatentWatch.com - Provides patent data, sales statistics, industry trends, and comprehensive data on all FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs. DrugPatentWatch also offers a free industry dashboard and patent expiration bulletin.
GenomeQuest - "The first intranet sequence search engine with percent identity and biological searching GenomeQuest allows IP bioanalysts to quickly establish freedom-to-operate and easily monitor competitor sequence IP positions. GenomeQuest works similar to premier web search engines, rapidly bubbling relevant records to the top. The software automates the reporting of the most important and relevant matches‚ minimizing tedious research‚ while providing advanced search algorithms so no relevant sequences are ever missed".
IFI Claims family of US Patent databases.
IP Data Corporation - Truly affordable Patent Image Delivery system, or Full Text Search System with or without images right in your office (on your intranet) with the entire US, EP or PCT inventory, or all three. We also have Full Text and Image collections to build your own.
LexisNexis Univentio - Produces current awareness products and patent information databases including PCT, EP, DE, FR, GB, CA, JP. In total Univentio offers patent data on over 80 different authorities.
Red Chalk Group – A provider of USPTO bibliographic patent data, custom data extracts, and patent indicators and statistics. Our indicators and statistics provide unique perspective as to the quality and strength of both patent portfolios and individual patents. Industry patent scorecards as well as individual patent reports are also available.
Thomson Derwent - Derwent World Patents Index and related databases
Thomson Scientific - technical, scientific and business information drawn from patents, research journals, standards and conference proceedings worldwide.

Online Services and Database Vendors

Delphion - Searchable full-text patent US, European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Organization.
Dialog - The worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Our products and services, including Dialog® and Dialog DataStar®, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records of key information, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets.
Esp@cenet - Search engine covering over 60 countries
FreePatentsOnline - provides fast, free patent searching, with powerful features such as PDF downloading, search management functions, collaborative document folders, and more. Sign up today -- it's free!
GenomeQuest - "The first intranet sequence search engine with percent identity and biological searching GenomeQuest allows IP bioanalysts to quickly establish freedom-to-operate and easily monitor competitor sequence IP positions. GenomeQuest works similar to premier web search engines, rapidly bubbling relevant records to the top. The software automates the reporting of the most important and relevant matches‚ minimizing tedious research‚ while providing advanced search algorithms so no relevant sequences are ever missed".
INCOM - Offers patent document delivery and direct access to the INPADOC PFS und PRS data of more than 65 Patent Offices worldwide.
infoapps - info patent is an innovative and fully automated archive for IP information. The out-of-the-box solution generates an archive of intellectual property specifically for your enterprise. Intellectual property complete with bibliography, drawings, pdf and full text is loaded by info patent loader from 11 free hosts for access by engineers and scientists. Used by 30,000 users in 17 countries.
Institut National de la Propriete Industrelle (INPI) - Produces several European patent and PCT files, and partner in MMS. Web site in French.
IP.com - IP.com is committed to helping our customers protect their intellectual property. IP.com enables innovative companies to quickly and easily protect their inventions by offering security services for many aspects of the invention process: from the safeguarding of sensitive information (such as R&D lab notebooks) to the rapid publication and creation of prior art (technical disclosures).
Korea Institute of Patent Information (KIPI) - KPA Search In KIPRIS - Free Services - Korean Patent Information available in Korean and English. Includes bibliographic information, abstracts and patent specifications.
LexisNexis
MicroPatent - Featuring the world's largest commercial collection of searchable full text patent data in PatSearch® FullText, as well as the most timely, complete bibliographic data (from 70+ countries with legal status from 42 of them) in MicroPatent's Patent Index Database (MPI).
Minesoft - Search patent database covering over 28 million patent families, 75+ patent-issuing authorities, updated fast each week, English abstracts, bibliographic details, also integrated legal status, full text display, PDF patent document ordering using PatBase (joint product with RWS Group), PatBase Express, PatentOrder, PatentArchive, PatentViewer, Patent Tracker, and/or Patent Family Portal.
PatentCafe - PatentCafe uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) search technology to retrieve search results in true relevancy ranked order. This search engine accepts natural language queries of 1,000 words or more, and returns results based on the meaning of the query (as opposed to keyword matching). PatentCafe provides traditional simple and advanced Boolean keyword search tools as well. International search collections include 15 million full text, and 24 total bibliographic records. A unique capability of PatentCafe allows users to create their own LSA searchable patent and non patent collections.
PCT Patents Search (WIPO)
Questel-Orbit - Conduct highly sophisticated searches on the most extensive collection of patent databases, each from the world's major patenting authorities and information providers. Interfaces tools (QPAT, Qweb), and Imagination give access to all its patent databases, either for professional or end-user searchers.
Raytec PAT-LIST-CN/WEB - A Patent Information Retrieval Web System Specializing in Searching Patent in China
Search4IP - Search 4 IP is a free, full text patent search system developed by the Munich company Software for Intellectual Property (SIP). Unlike the other well-known free patent servers such as Depatis or Espacenet, a search conducted in Search4IP can included a search of the full text of patent documents.
STN International - Europe
STN International - USA
SurfIP - Patent Quick Search
USPTO - Patent search engine
World Intellectual Property Search (WIPS) - The World Intellectual Property Search (WIPS) Patent Search database contains data from patent offices all over the world that WIPS has saved in a uniform format so that it may be easily accessed through their integrated web-based search system. Of particular interest is their collection of Korean, Chinese and Japanese patent information that is searchable in the English language, a feature not commonly available in competing products.

Analysis Tools

3i Analytics - Through Patentmaps.com, 3i offers the widest collection of patent mapping reports covering over 1000 technology areas, 160 corporate patent portfolio and 40 country patent portfolio.
Anacubis (i2 ChoicePoint) - "The anacubis Desktop 'Intellectual Property (IP) Analysis Add-in' is specifically tailored to the needs of patent professionals. It automates a wide range of common patent analysis tasks enabling the user to analyze complex patent portfolio information and extract meaningful intelligence in a fraction of the time that it would typically require".
STN Anavist - STN AnaVist is powerful interactive analysis and visualization software that offers a variety of ways to analyze search results from scientific literature and patents as well as visualize patterns and trends in the research. STN AnaVist can help you answer complex questions as well as provide information that can be used to make faster and better business decisions.
BizInt Smart Charts - BizInt Smart Charts for Patents helps you create and customize tabular reports from patents databases including Derwent World Patents Index, CLAIMS, and CA/CAplus.
ClearForest - A provider of next generation UDM software products that enable research-intensive organizations to make educated decisions that shorten time to market by enhancing internal and external unstructured information and delivering it in actionable form. ClearForest’s ClearTags product quickly and intelligently tags any textual content for re-use as rich XML, by using advanced semantic, statistical and structural tagging technologies to tag critical information buried within documents. ClearForest results are then delivered to decision-makers in visual, interactive formats. The ClearResearch platform allows businesses to focus and act on critical information, rather than search for it.
Global IP Estimator - We are a U.S.-based Intellectual Property software company. Our software, Global IP Estimator, generates estimates for patent and trademark applications worldwide. Also Online Global IP Estimator.
Innovation Asset Group (IAG) - Innovation Asset Group (IAG) empowers companies with DECIPHER™, an integrated software solution for the management of intellectual property assets and the contractual agreements that surround them.
IntelliPatent - IntelliPatent is a web application provided by IntelliSemantic, for patent monitoring and searching. The solution is implemented as a Rich Internet Application, which allows users to benefit from a multiwindows desktop like interface from their browsers. Search results are presented in a dynamic table you can further manipulate in place for helping your analyses and for further refining search. The powerful alert system allows you to be regularly updated on your topics of interest.
INTELLIXIR - INTELLIXIR is a Patent & knowledge Discovery Web Application with intuitive navigation through thousands of documents using powerful visualization and patent mapping tools. It allows users access through the internet in protected ASP mode and automatically extracts text words, keywords, recognize IPC codes, affiliations, authors, dates, from written patent resources. It accepts most known intellectual proprietary database formats as well as scientific and technical oriented databases, thus insuring good correlation between scientific articles and patents.
IPVision, Inc. enables you to build and extract maximum value from your innovations and patents. Our systems, services and tools solutions: (1) Analyze patent portfolios, technologies and innovations, (2) Provide new competitive intelligence insights and (3) Enable companies to align intellectual property management with strategic objectives. Produce your own single and multiple patent IPVision Patent Maps™ at our free Patent Mapping Kiosk. Use our free See-the-Forest Patent Analytics site for searching and other analytics.
MapOut - Software for analysis of search results.
Matheo Analyzer - Powerful patent information processing and knowledge discovery software that allows the integration of all patent database formats, of very large sets of data and has a full personalization of analysis configuration. Use Matheo Analyzer for creating statistical lists, charts, matrices, networks and clustering.
M-CAM Doors - Patent visualization tool.
Metrics Group - Patentcitations.com - free patent citation search and display tool. Iteratively search through generations of patent references and view forward and backward patent references at the same time.
MicroPatent - Aureka creates visually descriptive maps and offers forward & backward citation analysis, pre-set & custom reports, data export, collaboration and annotation features. PatentWeb offers Saved Worksheets with Annotations and 2- and 3-D maneuverable graphs.
OmniViz - Visualization software for exploring and mining patent and literature data. Integration with R&D data, sequences...any information critical to the decision-making process. Uncover the full value!
PATENTATLAS - PATENTATLAS is a Web-based lexical patent-analysis service that utilizes the IFI CLAIMS™ database of all U.S. patents and published applications from 1980 to present. With PATENTATLAS, customers can quickly and easily obtain a high-level understanding of the current technology surrounding any U.S. patent or group of patents. Users need only provide a patent number, application number, or technology description, and the automated tool locates the most similar patent records and then immediately goes to work generating a customized report detailing these similarities.
PatentCafe - PatentCafe incorporates a variety of analysis tools into its solutions. ProSearch patent search allows graphing and cluster analysis on up to the first 500 patents in each search results set. Portfolio allows users to analyze the entire portfolio based on any selected bibliographic data fields, or on 30 different computed data fields. Patent Factor Index Reports compute and analyze a patent based on legal, commercial and technological value contributors. Combined with LSA, the analysis tools can cluster patents search results or portfolios based on core technology.
Patent iNSIGHT Pro™ - A powerful patent search and patent analytics software for desktop and enterprise users. It extracts intelligence out of patent text apart from having analytics automation tool that generates various graphs and matrices in a professional Excel report. Patent iNSIGHT Pro supports search across US, EP and WIPO patents and can work over data extracted from many commercial databases.
PLX Systems - IP asset management and valuation.
Questel-Orbit provides tools for detailed or statistical analysis of your patents. Analyze and visualize your results with PatReader, PatentExaminer, GET/MEMS or BizInt Smartcharts.
Sapio Systems - The web-based ScioSphere from Sapio Systems optimizes the intellectual property research, search and analysis process with a unique online workflow and key word reference database. ScioSphere enables patent analysts to increase the quality and breadth of IP searches thus reducing risk exposure/improving return on research investment to quickly obtain knowledge and prior art from all available heterogeneous sources, proven to reduce analysis time by 80%.
TEMIS - The European leader in Text Mining, develops and markets multilingual software solutions for Text Mining, which enable optimization of information processing by transforming free text into data that can be analyzed for information extraction or automatic classification of documents. TEMIS products play a critical role in fields where information processing is complex due to the volume of information flow, such as Competitive Intelligence, Scientific Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management, Patent Analysis and Human Resources, and they provide substantial productivity gains.
Thomson Data Analyzer (Derwent Analytics) - data mining and visualization software for analyzing trends in data from Derwent World Patents Index.
VantagePoint - Search Technology's VantagePoint provides analysis tools for discovering knowledge from patent databases.
Wisdomain - The total solution provider for efficient patent searching and management system. Having developed PatentLab-II, patent analysis application currently introduced at Delphion IPN, Wisdomain’s Focust brings out new perspective on patent searching through Genealogy, US Collateral Citation and EP/JP Citation trees. Besides, all these search results can be effectively managed and reported through Focust Analysis module by which users can easily visualize the search results. ‘What is the significance of my search results?’ Focust comes in play exactly where this question lingers on in users’ minds.

Patent Document Delivery

Access Patent Group-APG, LLC - Patent File History/Wrapper delivered at low rates on paper or CDROM (searchable or non-searchable). Orders taken at Advanced Patent Services - We specialize in obtaining US and Foreign Patent File Histories/Wrappers. We are located one block from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Our personnel are at the USPTO throughout the entire working day to ensure our clients get the documents and services they need in a timely fashion. Most web file orders are filled within 1 hour if we have it in our inventory, and within 24 hrs if gotten from the USPTO. Almost all Patent File Wrapper Numbers from 4,716,122 to present are available within 24 hours. 703-413-0600 (Formerly also known as FileShopper)
Delphion - Online patent downloads.
FILDATA - Italian patent and utility models.
Fiz Karlsruhe Autodoc (Europe) - Automated document delivery broker system.
FreePatentsOnline - provides fast, free patent searching, with powerful features such as PDF downloading, search management functions, collaborative document folders, and more. Sign up today -- it's free!
GetIPDL - Software that downloads the text and the images from JPO, USPTO, EPO, DEPTATIS, WIPO, IP Australia, CIPO, SIPO of P. R. China, Thai IPIC website and merges and converts to PDF for printing. It includes features, such as SmartTag, which expands the Internet Explorer context menu.
GetPat - Patent Document Delivery and Searching Software for EPO data. Trial Version available.
Get The Patent - Patent image downloads from US, EP, WO, GB, DE, FR, JP, CH.
Image Applications Ltd. - EP and PCT file histories (PCT applications which have entered the regional phase before the EPO after 1.1.98). Also produces PatSee.
INCOM - Offers patent document delivery and direct access to the INPADOC PFS und PRS data of more than 65 Patent Offices worldwide.
iFdIP (il Futuro d'IP, or the future of IP) - Download documents for free in PDF or several documents in ZIP. Search by just entering number and country code and get all available document types having corresponding number. Coverage: worldwide.
Information Specialties Corp. - Full service paper document delivery.
IP Data Corporation - Current and back-year bulk data for most major authorities with Images (TIF or PDF) and full text available in several formats (this includes subscriptions). Download U.S. and foreign patents and applications from our document library. We also publish US IP manuals in soft cover and 3-ring (CFR-37, US Code, TMEP, TBMP and MPEP).
IP-Discover : - Software to search, download, and manage patents and applications from the public patent servers. Free functional demo.
Matheo Patent - Downloads patents from Espacenet and USPTO automatically according to your request criteria, constitutes and updates your local database, integrates many analysis tools, and generates graphic visualizations and personal printable reports. Use Matheo Patent for IP, innovation, competitor and technological monitoring, competitive intelligence.
MicroPatent - XML and more than 50 million documents from 40+ countries. Electronic file histories available, too.
Minesoft PatentOrder: - Instantly download PDF patent documents from over 40 countries (incl. PCT, US, EP on day of publication). Electronic EP Filewrappers, patent family/legal status reports, available via the Web, or either as Intranet or PC Desktop software.
Pat2PDF - Pat2PDF.com is a service that makes dealing with patent documents easier. It started as a service to convert the native U.S. patent documents into industry standard PDF documents. Since that time, it's grown to meet all your patent viewing and searching needs.
Patent Fetcher - Offers PDFs of all U.S. and most foreign patents and patent applications for a fee of $0.65 per document, regardless of size, via the Web site.
Patentec - Patent documents in paper and electronic form, and electronic file wrappers.
Patent Imaging - Patent documents and file histories via internet download.
patents | oncloud8 - Combines pages from esp@cenet into a single PDF, including the bookmarks. Everything is done in parallel, and patents are $0.49 with no software to download, no contracts, no registration, and no minimum purchases.
PatentPleeze - With it you can download unlimited full (or partial) patents from most countries (From Esp@cenet, USPTO, CIPO and Depatis). You can analyze downloaded documents (search rank..). You can view documents with text and images side by side and you can create a database of patents... and you can Email patents with one click.
The Patent Supply Co. - We provide low-cost, searchable PDFs for U.S. patents and applications for as low as $0.49 per document. We also offer Enhanced Patent™ document sets that include separate, commenting-enabled patent and drawings PDFs. With our Enhanced Patent document sets, practitioners can add their notes directly to the PDFs, search the text, and view a patent's text and drawings side-by-side. All of our PDFs are compressed and bookmarked to the major sections. Orders are zipped into a single file for easy downloading. We offer a FREE TRIAL.
PatSee - Downloads the pages from USPTO, EPO, Depatis, or Delphion web servers, and automatically prints or merges them.
Questel-Orbit - Patent Delivery Service gives access to an extensive, growing patent information file that covers more than 30 countries. Our Patent Delivery Service (PDS) is an interactive solution that offers speed, value-for-money and flexibility.
Rapidpat - Document delivery and US data search engine.
Reedfax - Delivering copies of patent & trademark documents since 1992. Patent Images - any issued US patent and most foreign, Certified patent & trademark documents, File Histories/Wrappers, Instant Japanese Patent Machine Translations, Fully certified manual translations and Hand delivery services to the USPTO.
Specialized Patent Services - Patent File wrappers, Large database of imaged files, Issued, Published, Re examinations, Interference. 703-415-1555
Thomson Patent Store - Login for instant copies of US, EP, WO, DE and other patents from across the world.

Patent Drawing

AM Patent Drawings - produces high-quality patent drawings in a timely manner and at reasonable costs. We are a full-service patent illustration company located in Washington, DC.
CORMC Technical Graphics - provides high quality patent drawings to USPTO and international standards. Rapid turnaround is available – often in hours. We have completed thousands of drawings and have never had a drawing objection! Check out our website for published examples of our work and additional information!
Crystal Clear Reflections - Patent drawings.
Draftinc - Patent Drawing and Drafting - Providing US and International Patent Drafting, Trademarks and Patent drawings services for your invention or idea.

Translation Services

Applied Language Solutions - professional language services for translation of any type of document: financial, legal, medical, marketing, or any other subject.
Burg Translations - Multi-lingual, full-service translation agency based in Chicago.
Choice Translating - Offers the following services in any language: document translation, brand name analysis, name validation, advertising and tagline localization, interpreting services, multilingual typesetting and graphic design.
Emory Patent Services - Emory delivers unmatched services in providing its clients with Korean, English and Japanese patent translations in the following scientific and engineering disciplines: semiconductors, LCDs, telecommunications, digital multimedia, mechanics, chemistry, industrial chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology and pharmacology, in addition to various cross-disciplines.
McNeil Multilingual, "The Center for Technical Translation®" - Specialists in the major languages of Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Global Language Solutions - Translation agency specializing in technical, medical, and pharmaceutical translations in over 50 world languages. Types of IP documents we translate include patents, published patent applications, utility models, abstracts, reports, and legal documents.
Global Language Translation and Consulting (GLTAC) - A full service translation company with machine language capabilities in several European and Asian languages.
intellect propels - Intellectual property language services specializing in technical and patent translation for European languages.
JPTranslation.com - Japanese patent translation service in electrical and mechanical arts.
Japanese Language Services Ltd. - A UK-based translation agency specializing in technical Japanese to English translation. Our main areas of translation are pharmaceutics/medicine and chemistry, comprising primarily pharmaceutical clinical trials and technical chemical patents.
Lingtech - We are a Danish translation agency with 12 years of experience in patent translation from mainly English, German and French into Danish. We employ more than 200 freelance translators world wide. We guarantee (a) translations of very high quality; (b) on time delivery; (c) use of language technology and (d) well established processes and routines. We have vast experience in dealing with large volume documents, especially in the fields of chemical, mechanical and bio-technical patents.
Linguistic Systems, Inc. - Contact LSI, when you need a patent document but in a different language from the one it's published in.
McElroy Translation - Provides translation and localization services in all languages to business and government clientele enhancing their ability to compete in global markets.
Charlie Meng - Manual translation of Japanese patents by Ph.D. chemist with 10-year experience in the pharmaceutical industry. tel. 678-336-2540.
MicroPatent - MicroPatent's translation service offers translation of patents, file histories, legal & technical papers, and more, from Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
Park IP Translations - specializes in technical translation and interpretation. Park IP translates patents, trademarks, contracts, technical articles, litigation reference materials, and operation manuals associated with IP. Park translates documents into and from all languages. Park IP engages on translation assignments for, but not limited to, foreign filing(s), prior art, and litigation review.
PatentTranslators.com - Provides translation of patents from Japanese, German, French and other languages.
Paterra - Machine translations of Japanese patents.
Rising Sun Communications - Providing Japanese to English, human and post-edited machine translations of Japanese national and PCT patent applications.
RWS Group - Searching and translation services.
Russian Patent Translations - English/Russian technical, scientific, medical translations: patents, published patent applications, legal documents.
Schreiber Translations, Inc - Provider of patent translation services for all types of patents, all languages.
SciTech Patent Art Services, Inc. - Translation services offered across the globe. SciTech Patent Art offers translation services for various Asian and European languages like Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German, French, Polish, Russian, Italian and others.
Thomson Patent Translations - Manual and machine-assisted translations, also searches for equivalent patents in the language of choice.
Translation Services USA - A translation agency based in New York with experience translating technical documents into over 100 different languages! We also translate patents and all other document types.
TransPerfect Translations - We have earned the trust of every firm on the American Lawyer’s Top 100 List. We provide translations and interpretations in over 100 languages. With 20 offices worldwide, TransPerfect has continually excelled by completing some of the world’s most important legal projects in Intellectual Property, Litigation and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Yoshimi Sheridan - Japanese translator, tel. 281-558-6511.
Technical Translation Agency - Translation agency in Austria

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