Category:Patent offices

Patents offices are national institutions that took in patent applications and granted or denied patent rights. Offices which are contemporary to us often maintain databases which are also inclusive of the historic data on which we are focused. See a grouping of international databases as laid out by the current Polish Patent Office. Data, whether virtual or analogue, from antique patent offices, are often accessed by way of contact with various archival establishments. See Visegrad Patent Institute on English Wikipedia for contemporary leads pertaining to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, and the Nordic Patent Institute on English Wikipedia for illumination on analogous matters as pertaining to the Scandinavian countries.