CAS - Useful Links

• AgBiotechNet Information on intellectual property rights and other key issues in agricultural biotechnology.
  http://www.agbiotechnet.com/

• AGCare This page - from the site of a 'pro-biotech' organisation with the name "Agcare" is a good resource for information about 'Bt' and 'Bt' engineered plants. It contains several links to background information on 'Bt'
  http://www.agcare.org/FS009.html

• Association of University Technology Managers This site has a wealth of technology transfer information
  http://www.autm.net/

• BUBL LINK Catalogue of selected Internet resources A link-site to a variety of patent information sources.
  http://link.bubl.ac.uk/patents

• CAMBIA - Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture
  http://www.cambia.org/textonly/index.htm

• COMPAS Workshop A platform for intercultural dialogue on indigenous knowledge, including a section on Intellectual property rights
  http://www.agro.wau.nl/stel/compas.htm

• Delphion Intellectual Property Network a website for searching, viewing, and analyzing patent documents, with free access to a wide variety of data collections and patent information including... United States patents, European patents and patent applications, PCT application data from the World Intellectual Property Office, Patent Abstracts of Japan.
  http://www.patents.ibm.com/

• Esp@cenet The database search facility of the European Patent Office
  http://ep.espacenet.com/

• European Patent Office’s (EPO) helpdesk This site is an excellent source of patent information. It can be accessed in English, French and German, and has many links to useful patent sites.
  http://www.cordis.lu/ipr-helpdesk/

• Intellectual Property in Cyberspace Site concerned primarily with copyright protection of e-information. Interesting reading, controversial articles, etc.
  http://www.wcl.american.edu/PUB/faculty/boyle/copyrt.html

• Intellectual Property Mall The IP Mall links to a intellectual property resources served up by the Franklin Pierce Law Center
  http://ipmall.fplc.edu/

• Intellectual Property Owners Association (U.S.). Some interesting information not easily found elsewhere.
  http://www.ipo.org/

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ‘Inventor’s site’ This site has interesting information and links for persons that would like to read about inventors and (the creativity of) inventions. It also contains a link to the MIT ‘Technology Transfer’ division
  http://web.mit.edu/invent/www/links.html

• Patenting and Licensing Agency for the German Human Genome Project This page contains the text of the European Directive for the protection of biotechnical inventions.
  http://www.pst.fhg.de/pla/english/patent/directive.htm

• PIPERS Virtual Intellectual Property Library Commercial site that contains links to Patent service around the world. (Based in New Zealand)
  http://www.piperpat.co.nz/

• Rural Advancement Foundation International The prototype of a watchdog for IPR
  http://www.rafi.org/

• Should the Patent and Trademark Office be issuing 20,000+ new software patents every year? An interesting site run by a gadfly of U.S.PTO. Some of the links are "dead-ends"
  http://www.bustpatents.com/

• The Patent Café The patent café has links to a great deal of information concerning IP protection.
  http://www.patentcafe.com/

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office official homepage
  http://www.uspto.gov/

• UNDP Civil Society Organisations and Participation Programme; Conserving Indigenous Knowledge A site devoted to IP issues affecting the control of indigenous knowledge (IK).
  http://www.undp.org/csopp/CSO/NewFiles/dociknowledge1.html

• USPTO Web Patent Databases (US Patent and Trademark Office)
  http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html