How to Find a Copy of Foreign Patents in Southeast Asian Countries

How to find a copy of foreign patents
in Southeast Asian Countries

by Satoshi Nakamura

1. Patent Office for each countries (including East Asian countries)

The most certain way to get a copy of a patent is contact a patent office, though it might take a long time and cost a lot of money. Here is a list of patent office web sites.

Cambodia (KH): No Cambodia Patent Office. (There is no patent office in Cambodia.)

China (CN): The Patent Office of the People’s Republic of China (China Patent Office or Chinese Patent Office)

URL: http://cpon.cpo.cn.net (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: www@cpon.cn.net

Hong Kong (HK): Intellectual Property Department (Hong Kong Patent Office)

URL: http://www.houston.com.hk/hkgipd (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: hkgipd@hk.super.net

Indonesia (ID): Indonesia Patent Office

URL: http://www.iptek.net.id/paten

E-mail: There is no E-mail address for Indonesian Patent Office.

NOTE: The above URL is not available now. According to IPTEKnet (Email address: infor@iptek.net.id) which has made web page for Indonesia Patent Office, it is under construction and will become available soon.

Japan (JP): Japanese Patent Office (Japan Patent Office)

URL: http://www2.jpo-miti.go.jp (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: PA0620@jpo-miti.go.jp

Laos or Lao (LA): No Laos Patent Office (No Lao Patent Office). (There is no patent office in Laos.)

Malaysia (MY): Intellectual Property Division , Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (Malaysia Patent Office)

URL: http://kpdnhq.gov.my/ip (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: I have not found it so far.

Myanmar [Burma] (MM): I have no information so far.

North Korea (KP): Invention Committee

URL: There is no web page for North Korean Patent Office

E-mail: N/A

Philippines (PH): Bureau of Patents, Trademarks and Technology Transfer (Philippines Patent Office)

URL: http://dti.gov.ph/bpttt (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: bpttt@dti.gov.ph

Singapore (SG): Registry of Trade Marks and Patents (Singapore Patent Office)

URL: http://www.gov.sg/molaw/rtmp/RTMP.html

E-mail: mlaw_enquiry@mlaw.gov.sg

South Korea (KR): Korean Industrial Property Office (South Korea Patent Office)

URL: http://www.kipo.go.kr/index-e.html (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: w3master@kipo.go.kr

Thailand (TH): Department of Intellectual Property (Thailand Patent Office)

URL: http://www.moc.go.th/english/moc (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: webmaster@mocnet.moc.go.th (Administrator), alphapc@infonews.co.th (Consultant)

Taiwan (TW): National Bureau of Standard, Ministry of Economic Affairs (Taiwan Patent Office)

URL: http://patent.seed.net.tw/bot1.html (There is no page written in English.)

E-mail:samuel@mozart.seed.net.tw

NOTE: Ministry of Economic Affairs

URL: http://www.moea.gov.tw/~meco/Intro_e/xmoe0.htm (There are some pages written in English.)

E-mail: service@moea.gov.tw

Vietnam (VN): National Office of Invention (Vietnam Patent Office)

URL: There is no web page for Vietnam Patent Office.

E-mail: N/A

To find above information, I have used the below webpages of links. I have listed up only URLs. There is no link page which lists all patent offices in Asia as far as I see. You have to check several link pages.

http://www.uspto.gov./web/menu/other.html

http://www.wipo.org/eng/general/pcipi/otherwww/ipo_web.htm

http://www.enetdigest.com/govt/asianpacific.html

http://www.hpo.hu/eurls.html

http://www.bolex.de/amt.htm

http://www.invent.com.tw/assoc.html (Asian Information)

http://www.dsmo.com/usiplow.htm

http://www.ieee.org/usab/COMMITTEES/IPC/ipc_worldpto.htm

http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgw/patent.htm

http://www.patents.com/howtocon.sht

http://www.osim.ro/eng/other.htm

http://lagunalaw.com/links.htm

http://www.carolinapatents.com/library_ip_cont.htm

http://www.csen.com/patents

http://users.carib-link.net/~research/patoff.htm

http://www.lawresearch.com/V3/ctcopy2.htm

http://www.library.ubc.ca/patscan/patoff.html

http://www.glp.it/HTML_I/Link.html

http://www.piperpat.co.nz/patoff.html

http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/world.html

Reference: "Patent Practice & Policy in the Pacific Rim," compiled and edited by Thomas Trian Moga. Published by Oceana Publications, Inc., 1995 (loose leaf style book)

2. Patent information on the web for Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam)

I am looking for the way how to get a copy of a patent on the web. Unfortunately I cannot find it. But there in some information for

General Information

Legal Resources on the World Wide Web

URL: http://www.law.adelaide.edu.au/wwwlinks/lawlinks.html

This page is including "Legal Research Sites by Country," where Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Please note that this page is not only for IP law.

Intellectual Property Resources - Attorneys’ Web sites in Asia

URL: http://www.piperpat.co.nz/asiah.html

This page is from Worldwide Listing of Patent Attorneys (http://www.piperpat.co.nz/asiah.html). This page lists webpages of patent attorneys in Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore.

E-mail: info@piperpat.co.nz

Poblador, Azada & Bucoy

URL: http://www.sequel.net/~poblaw95

This page is a webpage by an intellectual property law firm which is dealing IP law of Phillioines, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

E-mail: poblaw95@mnl.sequel.net

Aseanweb

URL: http://www.aseansec.org

E-mail: lim@asean.or.id