Additional Resources for Inventors

Visit the USPTO website for basic information regarding patents:

http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/iip/patents.htm#Patent

Another interesting site, hosted by MIT and provides an Inventor's Handbook for additional reference:

http://web.mit.edu/invent/h-main.html

Visit Software Patent News for recent information concerning software patents. Sponsored by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, this wiki provides a compilation of news, events and links related to global patent issues.

Read "Broken Windows, Broken Patents" as posted on the Right to Create website, a brief analysis of the economic impact and unintended consequences derived from the broken patent system.