A link has been made from the SCRAN Links Directory to the UK Intellectual
Property Portal, which was launched by the Patent Office last Wednesday.

This site is designed to signpost you to the correct resource for
intellectual property that will best satisfy your needs.

The site was developed as a result of a recommendation to the Government's
Creative Industries Task Force, that "A single web site containing basic
information about intellectual property should signpost users and creators
appropriately, so that they can obtain licences for particular use and
information to enable them to protect their rights, and should be
signposted from other sites where those seeking information might be
looking."

This site is sponsored and maintained by The UK Patent Office. It is our
aim to make this site as appropriate to your needs as possible and we
strongly encourage you to let us know what we can do to make it easier to
use. The site is designed with speed and ease of use in mind. For these
reasons it obeys HTML standards and has passed tests for visually impaired
and disabled usage. Comments would be welcomed by Judith Sullivan
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The Patent Office IP Portal can be found in the SCRAN Links Directory,
either by searching on (for example) "Copyright", "patent", "rights" or
"IP" or by browsing under "Other Relevant Organisations"