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General Legal Resources for Intellectual Property

• US Patent and Trademark Office www.uspto.gov
• The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School: Intellectual Property Topicals
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• House Judiciary Committee (includes information from Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property)
• KuesterLaw Technology and Intellectual Property Law
• Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Mall
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO )
  • Database of Intellectual Property Laws
• ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
• freeadvice.com, Intellectual Property
• Nolo Legal Encyclopedia
• Second Circuit decisions
• Inventnet: for the inventor's community in cyberspace
• Cyberlaw
• IP Mall Franklin Pierce Law Center
• Cyber Findlaw
• IP magazine online
• Nolo Press Patent, Trademark, and Copyright
• IP Law News Network
• Cyberspace Law Institute
• Internic, the domain name registration office
• IP Center, Law Journal Extra
• Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Federal Circuit cases via Emory University
• US Senate
• US House of Representatives
• Whitehouse
• Congressional Record via GPO access
• Thomas server
• Code of Federal Regulations via GPO
• Code of Fedaral Regulations via Cornell LII
• Federal Register
• US Code
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Intellectual Property Owners Association

Copyright

• The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School: Copyright

Federal Material 

• U.S. Copyright Act

• Code of Federal Regulations: 37 C.F.R., Chapt. II - Copyright Office

• U.S. Supreme Court:
  • Recent Decisions on Copyright
  • Selected Historic Copyright Decisions
• U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Decisions on Copyright

International Material

• Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works
• Universal Copyright Convention
• Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms
• International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organizations
• GATT 1994 (including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)

Other Copyright references (see also General Intellectual Property Links) 

Federal Agencies:

• U.S. Copyright Office
  • Forms

• Copyright Clearance Center
• Report of NII Working Group on Intellectual Property
• Coalition for Networked Information
• Association of Research Libraries Copyright Documents
• freeadvice.com, Copyright Law
• The Copyright Website
• Copyright Crash Course
• Copyright Management Center
• The Copyright Website
• Entertainment Law
• Broadcast Music Inc.

Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources

• Good Starting Point in Print: Paul Goldstein, Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice, Aspen Publishing Co. (1989)
• LII Disk Materials

Patent

• The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School: Patents

Federal Material

• Article I, Section 8, US Constitution
• U.S. Code: 35 U.S.C.
• Title 17 C.F.R., Chapt. I - Patent and Trademark Office

• Supreme Court:
  • Selected Historic Patent Decisions
  • Recent Patent Decisions
• U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: 
  • Recent Decisions on Patent Law
  • Summaries of Recent Patent Decisions - liibulletin-patent

International Material

• Patent Cooperation Treaty
• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• GATT 1994 (including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)

Other Patent references (see also General Intellectual Property Links)

• Federal Agency:
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• www.ibm.com/patent or patent.womplex.ibm.com searchable IBM patent databases, covering more than 2 million U.S patents issued in the past 26 years.
• R. Gruner - Patent Portal
• Software Patent Institute
• Patent and Trademark information
• Oppedahl & Larson Patent Law Web Server
• STO's Internet Patent Search, including Internet Patent Newservice (Free Weekly E-Mail Notice of Patents Issued)
• Wacky Patent of the Month
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Database of Intellectual Property Laws

Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources

• Good Starting Point in Print: Peter D. Rosenberg, Patent Law Basics, West Group (1993)
• LII Disk Materials

Trademark

• The Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School: Trademark

Federal Material

• U.S. Code: 15 U.S.C. §§ 1051 - 1127
• Title 17 C.F.R., Chapt. I - Patent and Trademark Office
• Supreme Court:
  • Recent Trademark Decisions
• U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Decisions on Trademark Law

State Material

Uniform or Model Acts

• Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act

  State Statutes

• State Statutes by Topic

State Judicial Decisions

• N.Y. Court of Appeals:
  • Recent  Trademark Decisions
  • Commentary from liibulletin-ny
• Appellate Decisions from Other States

International Material

• Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
• GATT 1994 (including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property)

Other Trademark references (see also General Intellectual Property Links)

• Federal Agency:
  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Trademark Forms and Related Information (Master-McNeil, Inc.)
• Searchable Yellow Pages - Useful for Trademark Searches, Yellow Pages
• International Trademark Association
•    Patent and Trademark information
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO )
  • Database of Intellectual Property Laws

Useful Offnet (or Subscription - $) Sources

• The trademark search report service on-line, enables quick domain name searching and you can order a full search via the internet.
• Good Starting Point in Print: J. Thomas McCarthy, Trademarks and Unfair Competition, West Group (1984)
• LII Disk Materials