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Standards Organizations

Canada

• SCC : Standards Council of Canada
• CSA : Canadian Standards Association
• CGSB : Canadian General Standards Board
  
  Links to other Canadian national standardization organizations - SCC list

United States

• ANSI : American National Standards Institute
• ASHRAE : American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• ASME : American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• ASTM : American Society for American Society for Testing and Materials
• IEEE Standards via IEEE Xplore
• IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• SAE : Society of Automotive Engineers
• U.S. Department of Defense Military Standards
  
  Links to other U.S. standards developers - ANSI list

International & National

• ETSI : European Telecommunications Standards Institute
• ISO : International Standards Organization
• IEC / CEI : International Electrotechnical Commission
• Freely available ISO/IEC Standards
• ITU : International Telecommunication Union

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Searching for Standards

• NSSN : National Resource for Global Standards (ANSI)
  More than 600 national, foreign, regional and international standard bodies are covered in this searchable database which enables identification of relevant standards from a number of organizations.

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Other Pathways

• Concordia Libraries Standards Collection
  A selection of printed standards is available in the Webster Library.
• Yahoo! Reference - Standards
  Another starting point to locating a wide variety of standard developers and standards organizations.

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Acquiring Standards

Canadian standards, such as those from the CGSB or the CSA, which are not in the Concordia collections, should be ordered directly from the individual organization. Standards from the United States and other countries can be ordered through the services of the Global Info Centre.

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Patents & Trademarks

Canada

• Canadian Patent Database (Canadian Intellectual Property Office/CIPO)
  This database provides access to over 75 years of patent descriptions and images. You can search, retrieve and study more than 1,300,000 patent documents.
• Canadian Trademarks Database (Canadian Intellectual Property Office/CIPO)
  CIPO is offering access to a test version of the database, enabling you to look up all pending and registered trade-marks in Canada. Trade-mark information found in the database can include designs, wares and services covered by the registration, owner's name and more.
• Further information regarding patents, trademarks, copyright and industrial designs can be found at the CIPO website.

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Concordia researchers who are interested in developing and protecting their intellectual property should contact the Office of Research at the University.

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United States

• United States Patent and Trademark Office
  Search a database that covers U.S. patents. The full-text of patents from 1976 onwards is available. For older patents (1790-1975), the scanned image is available.   
• Google Patent Search
  Google Patent Search facilitates keyword searching of over 7 million US patents.
• Locating Patent Information (U.S.) (Duke University Library)
  Information and links to a number of databases covering patents in the United States.

Europe

• Esp@ceNet (via United Kingdom Patent Office)
  Patent searching for the past two years from several areas: United Kingdom, other European countries, European (EP) patents, World International Property Organization (WIPO), worldwide patents and Japanese patents. Bibliographic details are provided and where available the abstract, full text and images of a document.

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