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Patent offices
Patents allow business to keep in touch with worlds' scientific events. We have made efforts to provide links to major intellectual information sources.
::WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (WIPO)::
http://wipo.org/
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the use and protection of works of the human spirit.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, French, and Russian
:: WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION::
http://wto.org/
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, and French
:: DELPHION ::
http://delphion.com/
Delphion products transform the world of intellectual property by providing easy access to patent research, IP management and analytic tools.
:: DERWENT ::
http://derwent.com/
Derwent Information is the world's leading patent and scientific information provider and has been helping companies to stay ahead of the competition for 50 years.
LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, and French
:: EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE::
http://www.european-patent-office.org/
European patent office database: http://ep.espacenet.com/
:: UK PATENT OFFICE:: http://www.patent.gov.uk/
:: USA PATENT OFFICE:: http://www.uspto.gov/
:: FINNISH PATENT OFFICE:: http://www.prh.fi/engl.html
:: JAPAN PATENT OFFICE:: http://www.jpo.go.jp/
:: PATENTCAFE.COM::
http://www.patentcafe.com/
Launched in 1996, PatentCafe established itself as the first-to-market on-line navigational directory for creators and professionals needing informational resources related to patents, trademarks and copyrights. In fact it uses USA patent office search system but you can also find useful information on subjects in related to intellectual property field areas.
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Microorganism collections
Main focus was made on collections in which you can find comprehensive information and make order easily. Provided sites will help to find strain-producers, media, cultivation conditions and products. News in life sciences, patent situation and job opportunities are also available.
ATCC (American Type Culture Collection)
ATCC's products range from the diverse materials in Collections/Repository (such as microorganisms, cell lines, and recombinant DNA materials) to the media and other reagents in Culture-Related Products.
DSMZ (German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures)
DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the acquisition, characterization and identification, preservation and distribution of Bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plasmids, phages, human and animal cell lines, plant cell cultures and plant viruses.
JCM (Japan Collection of Microorganisms)
Japan Collection of Microorganisms (JCM) was founded in 1980 at RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), as a culture collection of microorganisms. JCM supplies authentic microorganisms to researchers in the fields of life sciences and biotechnology. Available microorganisms from JCM are: about 3,800 strains of bacteria including Actinomycetes, about 150 strains of Archaea and about 2,400 strains of fungi including yeasts.
VKM (All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms): http://www.vkm.ru/
VKM is one of the Russia’s largest research and service collections in the field of non-medical microbiology. The collection maintains over 20 000 strains including many type and reference strains: bacteria (including Actinomycetes) and micro fungi (including yeasts).
CBS (Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures): http://www.cbs.knaw.nl/
CBS - an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and situated in Utrecht - maintains a world-renowned collection of living filamentous fungi, yeasts and bacteria.
UKNCC (United Kingdom National Culture Collection): http://www.ukncc.co.uk/
The United Kingdom National Culture Collection (UKNCC) co-ordinates the activities, marketing and research of the UK national service collections of microbial organisms. UKNCC offers their own microorganism database as well as several other collections’ databases. Among the former we found NCIMB as most convenient for use and give a link to it below.
NCIMB (National Collections of Industrial, food and Marine Bacteria): http://www.ncimb.co.uk/
The company maintains the National Collections of Industrial, Marine and Food Bacteria that contains in excess of 13000 bacterial strains, plasmids and seeds. As well as providing a list of cultures, the online catalogue also gives incubation temperatures, recipes for growth media and an index of special features and applications.
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