Biosciences and Chemistry

Intellectual Property (IP) is a subject discussed in some of your teaching and modules.

IP can have an impact on your life as a scientist or as a researcher and its important that you understand what this means and for you and your work.

These books represent a selection of books available in the Library that can be found by searching Library Search. 

Remember that the books will have a UK, European, United States or international focus in relation to patents or intellectual property and relate to the appropriate legal systems.

A range of journal articles related to intellectual property and the sciences.

Standards are documents that establish a common technical specification, so products and processes can work safely, reliably and consistently.

Some standards provide a common terminology or set of symbols for a particular field, to make sure different organisations are talking about the same thing when they use a given term or symbol. Standards are very commonly used in all branches of engineering.

Standards are published by a variety of different organisations, which often have a focus on a specific country or area of engineering.

Standards do not have the force of law in themselves: however, laws and regulations will often require you to meet certain standards, and so you may well have to follow those standards if you wish to manufacture or sell a product or service in a given country.

We have major collections of broad-ranging standards from two organisations.

You can access all current standards from each organisation as PDFs, as well as some withdrawn and draft material.

It is not usually possible to request a standard through the Document Supply Service.

However, if a particular standard is vital to your work, especially for a dissertation project, we recommend that you get in contact with the Library to find out if we can get a copy for you!

A patent is a licence from a government which gives an inventor exclusive rights to create, sell or use an invention they have developed.

They are excellent sources of technical data on how products and processes work.

You can find a range of patents using the following databases and websites:

These books represent a selection of books available in the Library that can be found by searching Library Search.

Remember that the books will have a UK, European, United States or international focus in relation to patents or intellectual property and relate to the appropriate legal systems.