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 <[log in to unmask]> 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"