Our Clients and Affiliates

Many corporations and organizations see the advantages that working with IP.com brings. We offer a variety of affiliate relations to help those companies more easily offer IP.com's services to in-house staff or as an added value to their existing client base.

Selected Participating Corporations

Corporations that wish to provide publishing services to their R&D or legal staff, yet retain control over access and billing, can utilize IP.com's corporate affiliates program. The following corporations represent some of those that recognize the value of publishing to the Prior Art Database:

Journal Recipients

IP.com distributes physical copies of The IP.com Journal, the semi-monthly printed digest of publications in the Prior Art Database, to various locations throughout the world. These locations include:

Australian Patent Office
Austrian Patent Office
Commissioner of Patents - Ontario, Canada
European Patent Office (EPO)
German Patent and Trademark Office
Hungarian Patent Office
Instituto Nacional de Propiedad Industrial - Argentina
Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand
Japanese Patent Office (JPO)
Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO)
National Board of Patents and Registration - Finland
National Institute of Industrial Property - Brazil
National Institute of Industrial Property - France
Netherlands Industiral Property Office
Norwegian Patent Office
Patent Office of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Patent Office of India

Russian Patent Office (ROSPATENT)
State Intellectual Property Office of the People's Republic of China (SIPO)
South African Patent and Trademark Office
Swedish Patent Office
Swiss Federal Intellectual Property Institute
Taipei Intellectual Property Office
United Kingdom Patent Office
USPTO Scientific and Technical Information Center
Chemical Abstracts
Denver Public Library - Patent and Trademark Depository Library
Napier University - Sighthill Campus
NY Public Library - Science, Industry, and Business Library
Rochester Institute of Technology - Wallace Library
Sunnyvale Public Library - Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Inventions and Ideas
The British Library - Patents Section
United States Library of Congress

Abstracting Services

IP.com can work with organizations who provide data abstracting services enabling them to broaden their content offerings. These organizations can receive automated feeds of our prior art data (in electronic or paper form) and provide indexing and abstracting of the selected documents which are of interest to their customer base.

Our current abstracting associates include:

Chemical Abstracts