Useful Links

Patents

• US Patents Office | US patent office
• World Intellectual Property Organization | Administers the patent cooperation treaty
  
• Licensing Executive Society | World's largest IP licensing organization
  
• Federal Circuit Court of Appeals | Handles all patent litigation appeals
  
• US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit | Home page to Federal Circuit
  
• IBM's Patents Site | Web site for searching, viewing, and analyzing patent documents.
  
• European Patent Office
  
• Australian Patent Office
  
• Europe's Network of Patent Databases | English Version of European Patent Office
  
• Japanese Patent Office
  
• Canadian Patent Office
  
• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure | US Manual of Patent Examining Procedures (patent office manual):
  
• KuesterLaw | Resource on the Internet for technology law information, especially including patent, copyright & trademark law.
• http://www.invent.org/ | national inventors hall of fame
• http://www.wipo.int/eng/ | World Intellectual Property Organization
  
• http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ | George Town university Law Center
  
• http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/ | Cornell University, Legal Information Institute.
  
• http://www.finnegan.com/fr_fed.htm | Cases from the Federal Circuit
  
• http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/ | IBM intellectual property network
  
• http://www.qpat.com/ | French Patent searcher
  
• http://dips.patent.gov.uk/ | English Version of European Patent Office
  
• http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm | Wacky Patent of the month
  
• http://www.krislyn.com/sites/patent.htm | Elaborate patent site
  
• http://www.lib.virginia.edu/govdocs/%20web_pats.html | Virginia University's patent search site
  
• http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/%20Intellectual_Property/Patents/ | Yahoo Intellectual property sites
  
• http://www.patentlawlinks.com/ | Patent Search Engine
  
• http://www.patent-ideas.com/sites.htm | Law firm specializing in patents
  

Intellectual Property/ General Reading

• http://lawschools.findlaw.com/%20journals/ip_and_cyberspace.html | Cyberspace and Intellectual Property Law Journals
  
• http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/topic2.html | intellectual Journal of Intellectual property at Cornell.
• http://lawlibdns.wuacc.edu/patprac/threads.html | discussion group concerning patents
  

Law Firms

• http://www.bannerwitcoff.com/ | a top notch law firm
  
• http://www.aipla.org/ | American I.P. Law Association
  
• http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/%20careers.html | Careers In Intellectual Property Law
  
• http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/ | American Bar Association Section of IP
  
• http://www.napp.org/ | National Assoc. of Patent Practitioners
  
• http://www.finnegan.com/ | law firm of Finnegan Henderson

Product Design

• Inventors Place | National Inventors hall of fame
  
• The Engineering Zone- Product Definition | Review of Product Design
  
• http://www.pddnet.com/ | Product Design online
  
• http://www.rqriley.com/ | Commercial product website
  
• http://www.devicelink.com/company98/%20category/RD_Design_and_Business%20_Services/Product_RD_.html | Links to firms specializing in Product design
  
• http://www.cfsd.org.uk/ | Center for sustainable design web site (UK)
  
• http://www.3dguys.com/ | Commercial Design site Materials
  

Materials

• Metal Suppliers Online | Metal Suppliers Online
  
• Omega | Process Measurement and Control products
  
• McMaster Supply Company | Industrial suppliers
  
• Introduction to Materials | Introduction to Materials
  
• Materials | Review of Materials
  
• http://www.carb.com/ | Carbon fiber supplier
  
• http://mems.isi.edu/mems/materials | Materials database

Rapid Prototyping

• Engineering Zone-RT | Review of rapid tooling
  
• Bridge Tooling |
  Fit and function of designs in production plastic, without the inordinate time and expense associated with traditional soft and hard tooling for plastic injection molding inserts
  
• ProtoMold | Build aluminum injection mold tooling from?3D CAD part file
  
• Dynamic Tooling | Development of PolySteel? which offers unique solutions for prototype tooling.
  
• MF Composites | Rapid tooling company
  
• Rapid Prototyping Processes | Review of rapid prototyping processes
  
• RPD | Rapid prototyping database
  
• Worldwide Rapid Prototyping Sites | Big resource for rapid prototyping
  

CAD/CAM

• The Engineering Zone-CAD | Review of CAD/CAM
  
• 3d Gate | 3D cad online magazine
  
• IronCAD | Iron Cad website
  
• Delcam | Delcam CAD/CAM
  
• Deneb Robotics | Digital Manufacturing company
  
• Pro/E | Pro Engineer website
  
• SolidWorks | Solidworks CAD
  
• http://www.dcad.com/ | Delta CAD
  
• http://www3.autodesk.com/adsk/ | Autodesk
  
• http://www.turbocad.com/ | Turbo CAD
  
• http://www.cadplugins.com/ | CAD plug-in store
  
• http://cadplace.cjb.net/ | CAD links
  
• http://www.cadinfo.net/ | CAD resource center
  
• http://tribeca.ios.com/~compvent/%20cadstuff.html | CAD links
  
• http://www.users.bigpond.com/%20johncoom/johncooc.html | Links to CAD pages and info groups
  
• http://www.giraffeproductionsystems.net/suitablebusprocess.htm | Manufacturing Resource Planning and Scheduling Software
  

Parts Catalogs

• The Engineering Zone- Mechanical Components | Overview of components
  
• http://www.towerhobbies.com/ | Internet resource for all type of R/C components
  
• http://www.rushgears.com/mss.htm | Machine shop services for custom gear requirements
  
• http://www.thomasregister.com/olc/ nordex/catalog.htm | Gears and fasteners catalog
  
• http://www.robotstore.com/ | Online robotic parts catalog
  
• http://www.onr.com/star/products.htm | Fiber glass parts and products
  
• http://www.uscar.org/techno/alumproc.htm | Cast aluminum parts
  
• http://www.google.com/%20search?q=miniature%2Bmotors | Miniature motors for nano-technology
  
• http://www.robotics.com/motors.html | Motors, linear actuators and servos
  
• http://www.multiplexrc.com/index.htm | Transmitters, receivers, motors and speed controllers
  
• http://www.hobbies.net/futaba/servos/ | Servos
  
• http://www.geplastics.com/ | Dealing with cutting edge material technology
  
• http://www.sdplastics.com/polycast.html | Acrylic sheets
  
• http://www.quickscrews.com/ | Screws and fasteners of all types
  
• http://www.fasteners.net/ | Fasteners, bolts and nuts
  
• http://www.elexp.com/ | Electronic components and test equipment
  
• http://www.ibsstore.com/electronic.htm | Electronic components
  
• http://www.globalsources.com/%20MAGAZINE/EC/EC.HTM | Online catalog for all electronic components
  
• http://www.industrial-gears.com/ | Online directory of industrial gears manufacturers
  

Aesthetics

• http://www.indiana.edu/~asanl/ | Official web site for the American Society of Aesthetics
  
• http://www-edc.eng.cam.ac.uk/%20projects/aesthetics/ | Brief literature about Aesthetics
  

Design Centers in other Universities

• MED97 | Intellectual Property in Product Development and Manufacturing Management ( NWU )
• http://web.mit.edu/15.783j/www/ | MITs program.