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CASE DATABASES

CD Asia Online (User's Guide)

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Vienna Classification (9th Edition)

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (verify registration)

Check with SEC (The SEC company verification system allows users to check whether or not a company is registered with the SEC either as a corporation or as a partnership.)

SECexpress

Registered Capital Market Participants

SEC.gov.ph

 

COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (verify registration)

Cooperative Masterlist

Memorandum Bulletin No. 2023-002 Examination Of Trademark Applications Under The Name Of Cooperatives Or Those Bearing The Terms "Cooperative", "Kooperatiba", "Coop", "Co-Op" And "Koop"

 

COLOR NAMES from CODES

Encycolorpedia.com

Color-Name.com

 

USEFUL WEBSITES

Citation Makers

Citation Machine

CitationGenerator

BibMe The Online Writing Center

EasyBib - The best papers start with EasyBib

University of Pittsburgh, Library System: Citation Styles: APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, IEEE Need help with formatting citations? Use this brief guide to five major styles.

Citation Guides for Local Citation Types

Ateneo Law Journal (ALJ) Legal Citation Guide (4th Edition)

Supreme Court E-Library - Manual of Judicial Writing

 

Grammarly

Merriam-Webster

Collins Dictionary

Cambridge Dictionary

Dictionary.com

Britannica

Encyclopedia.com

Wikipedia: List of legal entity types by country

 

PDFs

Adobe Merge PDFs (free)

W2P (convert website to PDF)

WebToPDF (convert website to PDF)

Cloud Convert (convert website to PDF)

 

TOOLS FOR EXAMINATION OF GOODS/SERVICES

Duplicate Word Finder

EUIPO Similarity Tool (click here for video instructions)

 

 

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USPTO ONLINE TOOLS

USPTO Website (main)

Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure

Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)  [Demo: How to search by Coordinated Classes in USPTO Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)]

Trademark Status & Document Retrieval (TSDR) 

Trademark ID Manual (TMNG) (Goods and Services)

USPTO Coordinated Classes (as of 2021)

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board

Electronic System for Trademark Trials and Appeals (ESTTA)

TTABVUE. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System

Trademark Assignment Search

Electronic Trademark Assignment System (ETAS)

Trademark Official Gazette

Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure

Current trademark processing wait times

Trademarks Dashboard

USPTO Trademark Decisions and Proceedings

Open Data Portal 

 

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TRADEMARK DATABASES

AFRICAN REGIONAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION (ARIPO) - ARIPO Regional IP Database

ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN NATIONS (ASEAN) - ASEAN TMView (powered by TMView)

AUSTRALIA - IP Australia

AUSTRIA -  sterreichisches Patentamt

BENELUX (Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg) - Benelux Office for Intellectual Property (BOIP) Trademarks Register

CANADA - Government of Canada: Canadian Trademarks Database

CHINA (PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF) - Trademark Office of China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA)

List of Seriously Untrustworthy Subjects Query_Credit China (List of bad faith filers - translation from Chinese needed. Use links to translation apps below.)

DENMARK - Danish Patent and Trademark Office

EUROPEAN UNION INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NETWORK (EUIPN) - TMView

EUROPEAN UNION - EUIPO eSearch Plus

GERMANY - DMPAregister

HONG KONG - The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region: Intellectual Property Department

ICELAND - Icelandic Intellectual Property Office Trademark Search

INDIA - Intellectual Property India

IRELAND (REPUBLIC OF) - Intellectual Property Office of Ireland

ISRAEL - Israel Patents Office Trademarks Search Online

JAMAICA - Jamaica Intellectual Property Office

JAPAN - Japan Patent Office (JPO)

KOREA (SOUTH) - Korean IP Office (KIPO) KIPRIS

MALAYSIA - Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia

MEXICO - Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) MARCANET (Spanish)

NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand Intellectual Property Office

PHILIPPINES - Philippine Trademark Database

SINGAPORE - IP2SG Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS)

SWITZERLAND (CH) - Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IGE/IPI)

THAILAND - Department of Intellectual Property (Thai)

TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - Intellectual Property Office - Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Legal Affairs 

UNITED KINGDOM - UK IPO

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - USPTO TSDR  |  USPTO TESS

 

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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS

WIPO Geographical Indications

WIPO: Lisbon Express - Appellations Of Origin And Geographical Indications

EUIPO GIview

EUIPO eAmbrosia (Wines and Spirits)

EUIPO eAmbrosia Traditional Terms

Government of Canada: List of Geographical Indications

Republic of Moldova: Geographical Indications

UNESCO: Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage 

 

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TRANSLATION SITES, APPS, and DICTIONARIES

ONLINE TRANSLATION (MULTIPLE LANGUAGES)

Google Translate (website)

Google Lens (website)

DeepL Translate

Reverso

CollinsDictionary.com Translator

ONLINE CHINESE TRANSLATION TOOLS

MDBG.net (Chinese dictionary with handwriting or mouse strokes input.) (The CEDICT project was started by Paul Denisowski in 1997 and is maintained by a team on mdbg.net under the name CC-CEDICT, with the aim to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters.)

LINE Dictionary Chinese-English (NAVER Corp.) (Handwriting and mouse strokes input available.)

Papago Web Translator (NAVER Corp.) (Handwriting and mouse strokes input available.)

PHILIPPINE LANGUAGES

SEAlang Library ["It provides language reference materials for Southeast Asia."  - Center for Research in Computational Linguistics (CRCL) and and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS).]

 

Chavacano

Hiligaynon

Ilocano

Maranao

Maguindanao

Tagalog

Waray

Marayum.ph (Marayum is a dictionary-making tool funded by DOST. Current available dictionaries: Asi-English, Cebuano-English, Kinaray-a-English, and Hiligaynon-English.)

Jeroen Hellingmans www.bohol.ph

Calderons English-Spanish-Tagalog Dictionary

Hiligaynon-English Dictionary (from Kaufmanns 1934 Visayan-English Dictionary)

John U. Wolffs Cebuano-English Dictionary

Project Gutenbergs A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan, by John U. Wolff (entire text)

Webonary.org [SIL International (formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics) is an evangelical Christian non-profit organization whose main purpose is to study, develop and document languages, especially those that are lesser-known, in order to expand linguistic knowledge, promote literacy, translate the Christian Bible into local languages, and aid minority language development.] 

Agutaynen Dictionary

Asi (Bantoanon)

Ata Manobo Dictionary

Ayta Abellen Dictionary

Bolinao Dictionary

Kankanaey-English Dictionary

Keley-i Dictionary

Mapun Dictionary

Masbatenyo Dictionary

Northern Kankanay Dictionary

Obo Manobo Dictionary

Palawano B Dictionary

Proto Sama-Bajaw Dictionary

Romblomanon

Tagakaulo Dictionary

Tagbanwa Calamian Dictionary

Tausug-English Dictionary: Kabtangan Iban Maana

Tboli Dictionary

Tuwali Ifugao Dictionary

The Online Ilokano Dictionary Project  (Development of TOIDP began in Spring of 2008 as a computer project for one of my Information & Computer Sciences (ICS) courses at the UHM (University of Hawaii in Manoa). Created By: Daniel-Jay & Roxanne Pascual)

MOBILE APPS (links)

Google Translate

Google Play Store (Android - Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Xiaomi, Realme etc.)

Apple App Store (iPhone)

Google Lens

Google Play Store (Android - Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Xiaomi, Realme etc.)

Microsoft Translator

Google Play Store (Android - Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Xiaomi, Realme etc.)

Apple App Store (iPhone)

Pleco Chinese Dictionary

 

Google Play Store (Android - Samsung, Motorola, Nokia, Xiaomi, Realme etc.)

Naver Papago - AI Translator

Apple App Store (iPhone)

Translate (Apple)

Apple App Store (iPhone)

 

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PHARMACEUTICAL DATABASES

Food and Drug Administration (PH) Verification Portal 

International Nonproprietary Names Programme and Classification of Medical Products

School of International Nonproprietary Names (New website for WHO INN)

MIMS (Drug Database)

Drugs.com

WebMD.com

RXList.com

go.DrugBank.com

PDR.net

TATA 1mg "Indias largest healthcare platform." (Check manufacturers vs. distributors.)

 

CHINESE MEDICINE DATABASES

TCM-ID: Traditional Chinese Medicine Information Database

Ministry of Health and Welfare: Taiwan Herbal Pharmacopeia (PDF download)

SymMap

 

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PLANT VARIETY DATABASES

Commercial Crop Variety Database

EU Plant Variety Database

 

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PESTICIDE/HERBICIDE/FUNGICIDE DATABASES

Commercial Crop Variety Database

Clemson.edu College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Science Herbicide List

European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization - List of databases on registered plant protection products in the EPPO region

University of Hertfordshire - PPDB: Pesticide Properties DataBase

University of Hertfordshire - Pesticide, Bio-Pesticide and Veterinary Substances properties databases

 

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VETERINARY PREPARATIONS DATABASES

Drugs.com - Veterinary Product Database

Wikipedia - List of veterinary drugs

 

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FLAGS AND SYMBOLS DATABASES/LISTS

World Flag Database: Full Index

WorldAtlas: Countries of the World

Heraldry.Wiki.Com - Heraldry of the World

Wikipedia: List of Coats of Arms

Wikipedia: Armorial of Sovereign States

Wikipedia: List of Symbols

Hazard Symbols

Engineering Drawing Abbreviations and Symbols

Electronic Symbols

Medical: Rod of Asclepius vs. Caduceus

Currency

DOT Pictograms (US Department of Transportation)

Certification Mark

Maritime - International Code of Signals (ICS)

International Maritime Signal Flags

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

 

!!! SYMBOLS AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER !!!

Anti Defamation League: Hate Symbols Database

Wikipedia: Designated Hate Symbols

CNN: These are the new symbols of hate.

 

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IPOPHL TM e-Services

eDOCFile

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About eCorr 2.0

e-Gazette Trademarks

IPOPHL Mobiliz

Apple App Store

Android (Disclaimer: Currently the Mobiliz app is not available in the Google Play Store. However, copies of the APK, which is the installer file, is available as a download for self-installation. These sites have not been vetted, so download at your own risk. It is highly recommended that you have anti-virus software installed in your phone before downloading from an unknown site.)

StePrimo.com

APKpure.com

 

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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

 

ASEAN COMMON GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBSTANTIVE EXAMINATION OF TRADEMARKS

Absolute Grounds For The Refusal Of Registration Of Trademarks

Relative Grounds For The Refusal Of Registration Of Trademarks

Excerpts Of Legal Provisions Of The Asean Countries Relevant To The Substantive Examination Of Marks

WIPO

Guide To The International Registration Of Marks Under The Madrid Protocol (Updated 2021)

Guide to the International Registration of Marks under the Madrid Agreement and the Madrid Protocol (all versions)

Examination Guidelines Concerning The Classification Of Goods And Services In International Applications Under The Madrid System (June 2018)

Examination Guidelines Concerning The Classification Of Goods And Services In International Applications (March 2017)

Standard St.60 Recommendation Concerning Bibliographic Data Relating To Marks

Standard St.61 Recommendation For The Exchange Of Trademark Legal Status Data

Standard St.62 Recommendation Concerning Standard Abbreviation For Vienna Classification  

Standard St.63 Recommendation Concerning The Content And Layout Of Trademark Gazettes 

Standard St.64 Recommended Search Files For Trademark Search 

Standard St.66 Version 1.2 Recommendation For The Processing Of Trademark Information Using Xml (Extensible Markup Language)

Standard St.67 Recommendations For The Electronic Management Of The Figurative Elements Of Trademarks 

Standard St.68 Recommendations For The Electronic Management Of Sound Marks

Standard St.69 Recommendation For The Electronic Management Of Motion And Multimedia Marks

EUIPO

Trade mark and Design guidelines

USPTO

Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (July 2021)

Guides, Manuals, and Resources

Exam Guide 1-19 Examination of Marks for Cannabis and Cannabis-Related Goods and Services after Enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill

Exam Guide 1-11 (Section 2(a) Deceptiveness for Class 5 Goods) 

USPTO Design Search Code Manual

Trademark Manual Of Examining Procedure (Tmep) Eighth Edition, October 2011 

Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure Files and Archives

JPO

The Trademark Examination Manual

 

WIPO - Guides: Intellectual Property for Business

Creative Expression: An Introduction to Copyright and Related Rights for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Publication year: 2023)

Enterprising Ideas A Guide to Intellectual Property for Startups (Publication year: 2021)

Looking Good: An Introduction to Industrial Designs for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Publication year: 2019)

In Good Company: Managing Intellectual Property Issues in Franchising (Publication year: 2019)

Inventing the Future An Introduction to Patents for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (Publication year: 2018)

Making a Mark: An Introduction to Trademarks for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (Publication year: 2017)

Exchanging Value - Negotiating Technology Licensing Agreements: A Training Manual [Author(s): International Trade Centre (ITC), WIPO; Publication year: 2005]

Marketing Crafts and Visual Arts: The Role of Intellectual Property Author(s): International Trade Centre, WIPO (Publication year: 2003)

Secrets of Intellectual Property: A Guide for Small and Medium-sized Exporters Author(s): International Trade Centre, WIPO (Publication year: 2003)

2023

Cyma drama: SC ends Greek restaurants trademark dispute (20 October 2023)

2021

Thats So Punny! Trademark Rights in Puns and Wordplay

Understanding NFTs

Singapore - Infringement, Passing Off - TMRG Pte Ltd and Lukes Taven Holdings Pte Ltd vs Caerus Holding Pte Ltd and Lukes Seafood LLC

Philippines businessman plans Archewell launch in US, vows to block Duke and Duchess of Sussex

Pro-Apple TTAB Bias Case Heats Up at CAFC

UK IPOs first AI-powered tool for trade mark applications

SC Rules on KOLIN Trademark Issue

SC ends trademark confusion

Apple loses Huawei legal battle; Trumps trademark spree; Gucci counterfeits seized news digest

Cleveland team sued by roller derby team over Guardians name change

Lakers News: KB24 Products & Services Could Launch Soon After Vanessa Bryant Files For Trademark

WWE Files A New Trademark For The Undertaker

Did DC Lose the Trademark to Supermans "Truth, Justice and the American Way?"

B.J. Novaks Face Is on Products Worldwide. Hes Not Sure Why.

2020

Protection of Well-Known Trade Marks and Measures to Prevent Bad Faith Registrations

Michael Jordan Comes Out Victorious In Trademark Case In Chinas Supreme Court

2017

5 Ways Stock Art Might Be Killing Your Small Business Brand

Logo Creation Using Stock Images Dont Do It

Customary in the Trade?

2016

Nestle Successfully Proves Secondary Meaning For Chow Mark

2015

Famous and Well-Known Marks Practitioners Toolkit

2011

Why Was My Image Rejected For Trademark?

2010

Generic Terms Are Not and Can Never Be Trademarks

 

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GOVERNMENT SERVICES

 

IPOPHL

eHRMIS

ITLMS

TRAVEL

Bureau of Quarantine (Vaccine Certificate or Yellow Visa/Card)

DFA: Consular Forms (Visas and Passports)

UNDP-DSA (Daily Subsistence Allowance): International Civil Service Commission 

GSIS

eGSIS Mo

PAG-IBIG FUND

Virtual Pag-Ibig

SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

My SSS Login

BIR

BIR Online Registration and Update System (ORUS)

 

 

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