Other websites
Patent links
Free patent databases and other databases
- Espacenet – patent publication database
- PatInfo patent register – registered details of Finnish patents and utility models
- United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – patent databases
- European Patent Office – patent register
- Electronic orange book
Website of NBPR Patents and Innovations Line
- patent.prh.fi – a separate website maintained by our Patents and Innovations Line, where you will find information about online filing (partly in English)
Patent classification
- International Patent Classification (IPC)
- Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) used by the European Patent Office and USPTO
- Patent classification (USPC) used by the USPTO, see Tools & Manuals
Teaching materials about patents
- WIPO IP Panorama – teaching materials about intellectual property
Assistance and funding
- Foundation for Finnish Inventions – assistance and funding for inventions and innovative ideas
- Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres)
- Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes)
- Finnish Innovation Fund (Sitra)
- Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE)
Inventors
- Finnish Inventors National Federation (KEKE ry)
- Inventor Server – Innoplaza.net
- International Federation of Inventors' Associations (IFIA)
Finnish inventors and inventions
Other patent-related sites
- Finnish Association for Corporate Patent Agents
- IPR University Center
- IPR Helpdesk
- Innovaccess website – basic information on European IPR systemsInnovaccess-sivusto
- Mayall's IP Links
- Balticmarket – SME portal for the Baltic Sea Region
EU and industrial property
- European Commission website – industrial property
- Information about the proposal for a Council regulation on the Community patent
- Proposal for a Directive on computer-implemented inventions
Copyright
- Ministry of Education and Culture – copyright
- Copyright Council
- The Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre
- The Finnish Composers' Copyright Society Teosto
- Kopiosto Copyright Society
National and international patent offices
- Australia – IP Australia (Australian Industrial Property Organization)
- Austria – Austrian Patent Office - Österreichisches Patentamt
- BENELUX – Benelux Trademark Office
- Brazil – Brazilian Patent Office - Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI)
- Canada – Canadian Intellectual Property Office - L'Office de la Propriete Intellectuelle du Canada
- China – The State Intellectual Property Office of the Peoples Republic of China
- CIS countries – The Eurasian Patent Organization (EAPO)
- Croatia – State Intellectual Property Office of the Republic of Croatia - Drzavni zavod za intelektualno vlasnistvo Republike Hrvatske
- Cuba – Industrial Property Office of Cuba - Oficina Cubana de la Propiedad Industrial
- Czech Republic – Industrial Property Office Czech Republic - Urad Prumysloveho Vlastnictvi Ceska Republika
- Denmark – Danish Patent Office, Patent- og Varemaerkestyrelsen
- Estonia – Patendiamet, Estonian Patent Office
- France – French Patent Office - Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (INPI)
- Germany – German Patent and Trademark Office - Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt
- Greece – Greek Industrial Property Organisation
- Hong Kong – Hong Kong Patent Office - Intellectual Property Department Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government
- Hungary – Hungarian Patent Office - Magyar Szabadalmi Hivatal
- India – Patent Facilitating Centre, Technology Information Forecasting & Assessment Council, India
- Indonesia – Indonesian Patent Office - Direktorat Jenderal Hak Cipta, Paten Dan Merek
- Ireland – Irish Patents Office - Oifig na Bpaitinni
- Italy – Italian Office of Patents and Trademarks - Ufficio Italiano Brevetti e Marchi
- Japan – Japan Patent Office
- Korea – Korean Industrial Property Office (KIPO)
- Latvia – Patent Office of the Republic of Latvia - Latvijas Republikas Patentu Valde
- Lithuania – Lithuanian Patent Office - Valstybinis Patentu Biuras
- Macedonia – Industrial Property Protection Office of the Republic of Macedonia - Zavod za zastita na industriska sopstvenost na Republika Makedonija
- Malesia – Malaysian Intellectual Property Division - Kementerian Perdagangan Dalam Negeri Dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna (KPDN)
- Mexico – Mexican Industrial Property Office - Instituto Mexicano de la Propriedad Industrial
- Moldova – Moldovan Patent Office - State Agency on Industrial Property Protection of the Republic of Moldova (AGEPI)
- Netherlands – Netherlands Industrial Property Office (NIPO) - Bureau voor de Industriële Eigendom (Bureau I.E.)
- New Zealand – Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, New Zealand Trade Marks
- Norway – Norwegian Patent Office - Patentstyret
- Peru – Peruvian Patent Office - Instituto de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (INDECOPI)
- Poland – Polish Patent Office - Urzad Patentowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
- Portugal – Portugese Patent Office - Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI)
- Romania – Rumanian State Office for Inventions and Trademarks - Oficiul de Stat pentru Inventii si Marci
- Russia – Russian Agency for Patent and Trademarks - Rospatent
- Slovakia – Industrial Property Protection Office of the Slovak Republic - Urad Priemyselneho Vlastnictva Slovenskej Republiky
- Slovenia – Slovenian Intellectual Property Office - Urad RS za Intelektualno Lastnino
- Spain – Spanish Office of Patents and Trademarks - Oficina Española de Patentes y Marcas
- Sweden – Swedish Patent and Registration Office - Patent- och registreringsverket
- Switzerland – Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property - Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum
- Taiwan – Taiwan's Intellectual Property Office
- Thailand – Thai Patent Office
- Turkey – Turkish Patent Institute - Türk Patent Enstitüsü
- United Kingdom – United Kingdom Patent Office
- United States – United States Patent and Trademark Office
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
- European Patent Office (EPO)
- Eurasian Patent Office (EAPO)
- African Regional Industrial Property Organization (ARIPO)
- Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (OAPI)
- Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM)
History of inventions and famous inventions
- Famous inventions
- The great idea finder
- National inventors hall of fame
- Yahoo – history of inventions
- Thomas Edison’s patents
- Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone
- Chester Carlson, the inventor of Xerox copying
- Fussball und Technik