Helpful Intellectual Property Links

See also Biotechnology Companies and Intellectual Property News and Intellectual Property Books

Auctions (Intellectual Property) : Ocean Tomo IP Auction

Biotechnology Associations: BioAlabama    BiotekCanada  Biotechnology Industry Organization  BCNJ  Concept Foundation   CURE    Georgia    NYBA    NCbio    SC    Penn    MD    VA    Scripts    Harvard Biotech Club    NAS Bio BioWorld

Biotechnology/energy: See Biofuels Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded money for companies to develop ethanol Earth Policy Institute

Biomedical Literature        NCBI NISCAIR (an Indian repository on natural herbs)

Bioethics:     NBAC

Blogs Holman's Biotech Blog IP Handbook (a very good resource for IP tools) Patentably Defined (an excellent reference for patent prosecutors too) PharmaPatents SpicyIP (Indian IP Law)

Clinical Trials: ClinicalTrials.gov - Information on Clinical Trials and Human Research Studies

Center Watch    ClinicalStudiesinfonih   

Certification: ASCP NCA AACC AMT AAB

Conference Listings:    Industry and Invenstor Conferences

Depositories        American Type Culture Collection    Japan Cancer Cell Bank    European Collection of Cell Culture   

Discussion Groups    PatentDocs (biotechnology law and discussion group)  IP Edge (discussion group for managing IP assets)      Intellectual Property Law Server Patently-O (very good patent legal discussion site) FedCirc.us (discussion of recent Fed patent law cases) Patent Blurb The Fire of Genius The Patent Prospector Promote the Progress Penn Law Social Science Research Network Professional Inventors Alliance (PIAUSA) Inventor Ed Rethink (ip) Ip Frontline Patent Baristas (bio/pharma chat)

Search Engines    Pub Med    Biotechfind   Chem Finder     Orange Book   

Microbiology    ASM Microbeworld and Dana Foundation

U.S. Government Agencies     CDC       DOD      FDA    FTC     NCI      NIH    NHLB    FDA    Orange Book    NIAID    NICHD   

UK     Medical Research Council   

French Government    Biodocs   France BioTech   Genepole     DRI      LEM      Lyon    GLUC    GLyon   

Laws/Court Opinions Board of Patent Appeals & Interferences Information Opinions

Magazines/Journals    SIGNALS     Nature    Science    Bio-It World Biotechnology and Patent Law in the News

 Patent Information/Statistics   IFI Data Visualization Center at the USPTO

Patent Treaties  WIPO Listings

Pharmaceuticals Orange Book

Patent Law Organizations : American Intellectual Property Law Association

Innovationalliance (companies who want strong patents) Business Software Alliance

Intellectual Property Owners Association (Industry group) Phrma (Big Pharma for strong patent rights) Patents Matter Patent Fairness (belive that over-broad patent grants stifle future innovators)

Pharmaceutical Associations:    PhRMA (represents leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies)

Synthetic Biology Openwetware (construction of productive systems from man-made, biologically-based parts. a hybrid field of synthetic chemistry, biology and engineering) Biobricks Foundation

First Amendment     Freedom to Tinker