Resources
“Ideas in your mind have no patent value. They must be expressed or reduced to practice before it is too late.” ― Kalyan C. Kankanala
CIPC (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission – i.e. South African Patents and Trade Marks Office)
www.cipc.co.za
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
www.wipo.int
PCT Resources (PCT patent searches)
www.wipo.int/patentscope
United States Patent and Trade Mark Office
www.uspto.gov
United Kingdom Patent Office
www.ipo.gov.uk
European Patent Office
www.epo.org
European Patent Searches
www.epo.org/searching/free/espacenet.html
Patent searching
www.google.com/patents
www.freepatentsonline.com
South African Acts and Government information
www.gov.za
South African Competition Commission
www.compcom.co.za
South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law
www.saiipl.co.za
Advertising Regulatory Board
arb.org.za
ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)
www.ican.org