====== [hemmerling] Trademark & Patent Research ======
Related pages:
  *[[search.html| Search]].
  *[[legalmatters.html|Legal Matters]].
===== My Point of View, as of 1999 =====
  *I agree with this opinion: The right of name is an international right of man, it earns a precedence of trademark rights limited to national territories. The Internet is "no space free of rights", indeed, but it isn't a "front garden" of each single nation, too ! For trademark rights, the Internet is a space of its own with its own priorities.
  *I myself tried to protect the name of my WEB site ('Hemmerling') by registration as trademark. Maybe it helps?
===== Company Data & Business Databases =====
  *[[http://www.arvato-infoscore-mieterauskunft.de|arvato infoscore - Mieterauskunft]].
  *[[http://www.buergel.de/|Bürgel Wirtschaftsinformationen]].
  *"Bundesministeriums der Justiz" & "Bundesanzeiger Verlagsgeselllschaft mbH" ## Free informaions about german GmbH companies ##.
    *[[http://www.unternehmensregister.de|Unternehmensregister]].
    *[[http://www.bundesanzeiger.de/|Bundesanzeiger]].
  *[[http://www.creditreform.de/|Verband der Vereine Creditreform e.V.]].
  *[[http://www.genios.de/|GBI-Genios Deutsche Wirtschaftsdatenbank GmbH]].
  *[[http://www.thomasnet.com/|THOMASNET.com - Supplier discovery & product sourcing]].
===== Internet Domain Research =====
==== Whois ====
  *[[http://www.domainpeople.com/whois/|DomainPeople "Whois Lookup"]].
  *[[http://www.iks-jena.de/Tools/Whois|IKA GmbH "Whois"]] #.
  *[[http://www.internic.net/whois.html|InterNIC—Public Information Regarding Internet Domain Name Registration Services "Whois Search"]].
  *[[http://www.corehub.net/whois/| COREhub S.R.L.U. - Whois]] - Data of "Go Daddy" customers is invisible in the normal whois!
  *[[http://who.godaddy.com/?prog_id=GoDaddy|GoDaddy "Search the WHOIS Database"]] - Data of "Go Daddy" customers is invisible in the normal whois!
  *[[http://www.register.com/whois.rcmx|Register.com "Whois Lookup"]].
==== Search engines for Domain Name Addresses ====
  *[[http://www.denic.de/|DENIC eG]] -> ".de" #.
  *[[http://www.networksolutions.com/domain-name-registration/| Network Solutions, LLC, A Web.com Company]] -> ".com", ".net" , ".org", ".edu" and many more #.
  *[[http://www.register.com/register-domain-names.rcmx|Register.com]] -> ".com", ".net", ".org", ".cc", ".co.uk", ".org.uk", ".sh", ".ac", ".ms", ".tc", ".vg", ".ch", ".li", ".co.nz", ."org.nz", "net.nz" and ".tv".
  *[[http://www.sidn.nl|SIDN.nl]] -> ".nl".
  *[[http://www.tonic.to/newname.htm|Tonic]] -> ".to".
==== ICANN - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ====
  *[[http://www.icann.org/|ICANN]].
  *[[http://members.icann.org/|ICANN AtLarge Membership]].
  *[[http://www.icannchannel.de/|ICANN Channel]], Germany ( - 2003 ) - "Deutschsprachiges Informations- und Diskussionsforum zur Internetverwaltung ICANN".
==== Resources ====
  *[[http://www.ripe.net/search/query.html|RIPE Network Coordination Centre]].
===== Patents, Anti-Patents Civil Movements =====
==== Free Patent Databases ====
  *[[http://www.atarihq.com/othersec/patents.html|Atari Gaming Headquarters -- Atari Patents Database]].
  *[[http://www.epo.org/|European Patent Office]].
  *[[http://www.freepatentsonline.com/| FreePatentsOnline.com ( FPO ) - IP Research & Communities]].
  *Germany: See in "Trademark Databases" section.
==== Commercial Patent & Document Databases ====
  *[[http://www.delphion.com/| Thomson Reuters "Delphion Research"]].
  *[[http://www.wti-frankfurt.de/|WTI-Frankfurt eG]].
==== Anti Patent Organisations ====
  *[[http://www.ffii.org/|Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V.]].
    *[[http://eupat.ffii.org/|FFII "Patentability and Democracy in Europe"]].
      *[[http://eupat.ffii.org/cnino/index.en.html|FFII "EU Patent Politics from Yesterday to the Early Days"]].
      *[[http://webshop.ffii.org/|FFII "Patented Webshop - our demonstrator for the legal ambush on e-commerce & freedom of business in Europe"]].
      *[[http://eupat.ffii.org/vreji/|FFII "Software Patent Archive"]].
==== Resources ====
  *[[http://www.ezn.de/|EZN - Erfinderzentrum Norddeutschland GmbH]].
  *[[http://www.gerstein.de/JG-HP-Dateien/page0001.htm|Joachim Gerstein, Patentanwalt und Dipl.-Ing. "Materialien zur Vorlesung 'Patentrecht für Ingenieure' an der FH-Hannover"]], 2010.
  *[[http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/workshop/patdbases.html|Indiana University "Patent Databases on the Internet"]].
  *[[http://www.supnik.com/ctm.htm|Paul D. Supnik "European Community Trademark Basics"]].

===== Trademark Databases =====
  *Australia - [[http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/|IP Australia]].
  *Canada - [[http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/tmSrch.do?lang=eng|Canadian Intellectual Property Office "Canadian trade-marks database"]].
  *Germany.
    *[[http://www.titelschutzanzeiger.de/|Der Titelschutz Anzeiger]] - "Für Zeitungen, Zeitschriften, Bücher, digitale Medien, Hörfunk, TV und Film".
    *[[http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/|Deutschen Patent- und Markenamt]] ( DPMA ).
      *[[http://depatisnet.dpma.de/|DEPATISnet]] - "Datenbank des [[http://www.deutsches-patentamt.de/|Deutschen Patent- und Markenamtes]] für Online-Recherchen zu Patentveröffentlichungen aus aller Welt"
      *[[http://register.dpma.de/|DPMAregister - Amtliche Publikations- und Registerdatenbank]].
      *[[http://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/blattdownload/marken|DPMAregister - Amtliche Publikations- und Registerdatenbank "Markenblatt"]].
      *"Mit der Integration der Patente und Gebrauchsmuster in unseren neuen Online-Service DPMAregister haben wir die Datenbanken DPINFO und DPMApublikationen zum 31. Mai 2011 eingestellt". 
    *The [[http://www.ihk.de/|Industrie-und Handelskammer (IHK)]] maintains a non-official database with the contents of the official german register of trading associations "Handelsregister". The IHK does **not** provide an online version, but may grant informations for a //**small**// fee. Please contact the local office of the IHK in your german hometown ! The trade register "Handelsregister", maintained by the german administrative authority "Amtsgericht", lists all companies registered for business in Germany.
  *[[http://www.markify.com/|Markify - The world's most accurate comprehensive trademark search]].
  *USA - [[http://tmsearch.uspto.gov|United States Patent and Trademark Office "Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)"]].
===== Resources =====
  *Blog [[http://www.domain-recht.de/|Domainrecht]] - "Deutschlands größtes Blog rund um Internet-Domains".
  *[[http://www.domainguard.de/|domainGuard Markenrecherche online]] - "Markenrecherche und Firmennamen-Recherche".   *[[http://www.inta.org/|International Trademark Association ( ITA )]].

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