Intellectual property

Patent
innovation
Published

July 22, 2026

Patent search tools and innovation world tools.

Patent search tools

Office / tool Notes
Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial - INPI @gov.br
United States Patent and Trademark Office - USPTO

INOVA/UFPB

Resource Notes
Passo a Passo da PI by INOVA/UFPB

Others

Resource Notes
Redação de patentes by H. Suzuki @Axonal
Manual de Oslo

Creative Commons overview

See here for an overview of the Creative Commons licenses.

Text below taken from OPEN Course - RELO/US Embassy.

License What it allows / requires
CC BY (By Attribution) Any and all changes can be made to the original work, as long as the creator is attributed. Good for open handouts.
CC BY-SA (By Attribution, Share Alike) Any and all changes can be made to the original work, but the creator must be attributed, and the revised work must be shared under the same license.
CC BY-ND (By Attribution, No Derivatives) Content can be used and shared, but no changes or revisions can be made.
CC BY-NC (By Attribution, Non-Commercial) Any and all changes can be made to the original content, but the content, and any changes to the content can’t be used for commercial gain, or for selling and reselling.
CC BY-NC-SA (By Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike) Any and all changes can be made to the original content, but the original content, and any changes made to the content, can’t be used for commercial gain or for selling and reselling, and must be shared under the same license.
CC BY-NC-ND (By Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives) The original content can be shared, but no changes can be made to the original content, and it can’t be sold or resold. This is the most restrictive CC license.

Marking HOWTO

[License stamp] © (Year of creation) by (Creator). (Title of the work). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, except where noted. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Marking should:

  • show the CC license type;
  • recognize the content creator;
  • acknowledge other sources if content was not created by ourselves (with “except where noted”);
  • reference the legal license language.

Attribution HOWTO

[License stamp] © (Year of creation) by (Adapter). (New Title). This work is an adaptation of Title by Creator, licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license, and can be found here (link to its original location on the Internet). To view a copy of the license, please click here (link to original license, if different from CC BY 4.0). This adaptation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, except where noted. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

To make a simple attribution with licenses of other platform, such as images, use this:

Title of Work, by Author of Work via website where work was found is licensed under (list license, and link to license legal information).

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