Contacts & Links

• RIT Resources
• Rochester Area Groups
• Patents & Trademarks
• Copyright
• Bayh-Dole Act
• Intellectual Property
• Searching Patents
• Export Control & Information Handling
• Professional Organizations
• Invention Assistance Companies

RIT Resources

• Information Security Office
• Venture Creations the RIT High Tech Incubator
• Sponsored Research Services
• RIT Wallace Library Resources on Copyright and Plagiarism
• General Legal Questions from Students
  RIT provides the services of an attorney to answer student's questions. Please check with the Student Government Office for information on when the attorney, Mr. Paul A. Vick, is on campus 475-2204
• RIT Venture Fund

Rochester Area Organizations

• Licensing Executives Society Rochester Chapter (LES Rochester) - for information contact bill.bond@rit.edu
• Rochester Intellectual Property Law Association (RIPLA)
• High Tech Rochester
• SCORE Rochester

Patents & Trademarks

• US Patent and Trademark Office

Copyright

• US Copyright Office
• Copyright Comic Book

Bayh-Dole Act

• The Bayh-Dole Act

Intellectual Property

• Franklin Pierce Law Center IP Mall
• www.kuesterlaw.com
• www.patents.com
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• Education and News for Inventors
• www.bitlaw.com
• Council on Governmental Relations (technology transfer info)
• University of Central Florida (trademark searching tutorial)

Searching Patents

• University of Central Florida (patent searching tutorial)
• http://inventors.about.com/ (various tutorials)

Export Control & Information Handling

• Department of Commerce
• Employee's Guide to Security Responsibilities

Professional Organizations

• Licensing Executives Society
• Association of University Technology Managers
• United Inventors Association
• VentureWell (Was Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance)
• United Inventors Association of the USA

Invention Assistance Companies

Customer beware! There are many companies that advertise that they will get your invention patented and commercialized. These companies offer a variety of services with varying quality. There are sites where independent inventors can check on the background of these companies:

US Patent and Trademark Office (go down a little to "Published Complaints") 
Federal Trade Commission

For general information on such firms:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/alerts/alt020.shtm 
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/iip/documents/scamprevent.pdf 
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/products/pro21.shtm