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What is PTO Direct?

PTO Direct is a free service provided by The Intellectual Project, LLC (www.TheIntellectualProject.com). PTO Direct was created by intellectual property professionals for intellectual property professionals and their clients. Its purpose is to provide an efficient way to search, gather and share relevant intellectual property record information from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. PTO Direct provides free patent searches, free trademark searches and free copyright searches. Fast, free patent, trademark and copyright searches from a single easy to remember location: PTODirect.com.

All relevant information at one convenient source!! For patents, a downloadable, printable PDF copy of each patent, a searchable text version, and a link to the prosecution history at the United States Patent Office are included. For trademarks, a full trademark record and link to the prosecution history at the United States Trademark Office are included. For copyrights, text searching of the United States Copyright Office document records is included.

Linking to PDF versions of patents and publications in emails, reports and opinions is now possible using simple formats:

www.PTODirect.com/patent/?1234567; and

www.PTODirect.com/publication/?20040123456.

A free software tool is provided to quickly convert any patent or publication number included in a Microsoft Word document into a hyperlink connected directly to a PDF version of the document with subsequent links to a searchable text version and prosecution history view of the document. PDF is the most convenient and user friendly view of a patent. Providing a report that includes a direct PDF hyperlink not only significantly increases the professionalism of the report, it generates significantly greater reader satisfaction. Now this ability is available to everyone.

Intellectual Property is the business currency of the 21st century. Companies who believe that intellectual property is not relevant to them are simply missing out on a significant source of company value. Every company has and generates some intellectual property. By understanding and tracking your own intellectual property and that of your competitors, not only can you build greater company value and wealth, you can avoid potential costly conflicts with your competitors. Attorneys and other intellectual property professionals who inform their clients about the benefits and pitfalls of intellectual property have happier, more successful clients. Happier, more successful clients hire the professionals more frequently for meaningful, billable work that further builds the client’s company value.

For more information on how intellectual property identification and management can help you, please contact an intellectual property professional near you or contact The Intellectual Project, LLC (www.TheIntellectualProject.com).

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