Links and Resources
Government
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) – www.uspto.gov
Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions – www.wdfi.org
Wisconsin Secretary of State – www.sos.state.wi.us
Library of Congress (US Copyright Office) – www.copyright.gov
Fond du Lac County Economic Development Corporation – www.fcedc.com
Juneau County Economic Development Corporation – http://www.juneaucounty.com/economic.asp
World Intellectual Property Office - www.wipo.int
Canadian Patent Office - http://cipo.gc.ca/
European Patent Office - http://www.european-patent-office.org
Japanese Patent Office - http://www.jpo.go.jp/
Federal Trade Commission – www.ftc.gov
City of Fond du Lac - http://www.ci.fond-du-lac.wi.us/
Fond du Lac County - http://www.co.fond-du-lac.wi.us/

Courts and Judicial
United States Supreme Court - http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
United States Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit - http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/
Unite States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - http://www.fedcir.gov/
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin - www.wied.uscourts.gov
United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin - www.wiwd.uscourts.gov

Legal Research and Miscellaneous
Marquette University Law Library - http://law.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/site.pl?2130&pageID=145
United States Code - http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml
United States Federal Regulations - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure - http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep.htm
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT patent application) - http://www.uspto.
gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pctlegaladminmain.html
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure - http://tess2.uspto.gov/tmdb/tmep/
State Bar of Wisconsin – www.wisbar.org
Free PDF copies of patent documents - http://www.pat2pdf.org/
USPTO complaint list again invention submission companies - http://www.uspto.
gov/web/offices/com/iip/complaints.htm

Inventor’s Organizations
The Inventor’s Network of Wisconsin – www.inventors-network.org
The Inventor’s and Entrepreneurs Club of Juneau County – www.iandeclub.com


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