American Library Association, 1995. 1998 Patents and Trademarks are covered in Chapter 7. 1994 Patents and Trademarks are in Chapter 50. Code of Federal Regulations Current regulations of the Patent and Trademark Office are in Chapter I of Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations. An inventor who files for patent protection in any of the participating countries has 12 months to apply for protection in any of the other participating countries.
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Check out Other Intellectual Property Offices for links to sites worldwide. The free Canadian Patent Database provides access to over 75 years of Canadian patent descriptions and images from more than 1,400,000 patent documents. This site provides indexing to over 30 million patent documents from European and other patent offices worldwide, including Japanese, German, and U.S. patents. The records provide basic patent information and in many cases an English abstract and image of the first page. Some records provide full-text descriptions, claims, and drawings.