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Patents
European Patent Office

http://www.epo.co.at/epo/

Contains information about the European Patent Office, information about obtaining a European patent, and links to other patent information sites.

National Association of Patent Practitioners

http://www.napp.org/

Provides links to Web sites for international patent offices, U.S. patent laws and court rulings, intellectual property organizations and newsletters, patent search engines, and specific patent firms. Also has membership information for joining the National Association of Patent Practitioners.

Source Translation & Optimization (STO) Internet Patent Search System

http://sunsite.unc.edu/patents/intropat.html

Searchable by either class/subclass code or patent number. Provides a browsable list of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) classification system to determine the class/subclass code. Search returns patent number, title, and year of issue for all patents that meet the search criteria.

Wacky Patent of the Month

http://colitz.com/site/wacky.htm

Clicking on the patent number of the winning patent will give you a complete description of the patented device along with all the figures that accompanied the patent when it was applied for. Also available are the prior winners of the "Wacky Patent of the Month", from September 1995 to the present.