IP Law Links

General IP Law Resources

American Bar Association (ABA)

www.abanet.org
American Intellectual Property Law (AIPLA) www.aipla.org
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) www.ipo.org
Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) www.aippi.org
U.S. International Trade Commission www.usitc.gov
Licensing Executives Society (LES) www.usa-canada.les.org
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) www.cafc.uscourts.gov
U.S. Patent Litigation Statistics www.patstats.org
Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office https://ipsearch.ipd.gov.hk/index.html
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/singapore/singapore_treaty.html
World Intellectual Property Association https://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en
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Patent Law Resources

Patent Law: An Overview

https://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Patent
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) https://www.uspto.gov
Google Patents https://www.google.com/patents
Free Patents Search Tool https://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Delphion Patent Research Site https://www.delphion.com/
SIRCh: Chemical Patent Searching https://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/ca_cps.html
A FREE patent search tool https://www.pat2pdf.org/
Edison’s Patents https://edison.rutgers.edu/patents.htm
Software Patent Institute (SPI) https://www.spi.org/
Public Patent Foundation at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law https://www.pubpat.org/
IFI CLAIMS® Patent Databases https://www.ificlaims.com/
Peer To Patent https://www.peertopatent.org/
Free Patents Crazy Patents https://www.freepatentsonline.com/crazy.html
MIT Library Patents Guides https://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/patents/
Patent Commons Project https://www.patentcommons.org/
Schreyer Business Library’s Patent Search Tutorial https://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/business/Patents/
Chinese Patent Office (SIPO) https://www.sipo.gov.cn
European Patent Office (EPO) https://www.epo.org
Japanese Patent Office (JPO) https://www.jpo.go.jp
Taipei Patent Office (TIPO) https://www.tipo.gov.tw
The Six Pieces of the Patent Idea Puzzle https://www.sbinformation.about.com/od/patents/a/patentidea.htm
USPTO: How to Get a Patent https://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/howtopat.htm
Why Patent My Invention and Other Patent Information https://www.morebusiness.com/running_your_business/marketing/d1007343402.brc
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/paris/trtdocs_wo020.html
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_01_e.htm
WikiPatents Community https://www.wikipatents.com/
Trademark Law Resources

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

https://www.uspto.gov
Cornell: Trademark law: an overview https://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Trademark
USPTO Trademark Law https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmlaw2.pdf
US Trademarks Basic Facts https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/
International Trademark Law Treaty https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/tlt/trtdocs_wo027.html
Trademark Electronic Business Center https://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
US Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual https://tess2.uspto.gov/netahtml/tidm.html
USPTO Fees https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2007february01.htm#tm
USPTO Design Search Code Manual https://tess2.uspto.gov/tmdb/dscm/index.htm
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP) – 5th Edition https://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#TM
Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) https://tarr.uspto.gov/
Trademark Related Forms https://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#TM
Trademark Document Retrieval. https://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow
Canadian Trademark Law https://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/Home?OpenDocument
Trademark Official Gazette https://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/tmog/
Changes To Requirements For Maintaining Trademark Registrations https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/tmlwtrty/postreg.htm
Canadian Trade-marks Database https://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/tmSrch.do?lang=eng
Guide To Implementation Of Madrid Protocol In The United States https://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/madrid/madridguide.htm
U.S. Customs Intellectual Property Rights e-Recordation (IPRR) Application https://apps.cbp.gov/e-recordations/
Madrid Trademark System https://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/fees/
European Communities Trademark Association https://www.ecta.org/
European Organization for the Harmonization of the Internal Markets https://www.oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/CTM/legalReferences/legalReferences.en.do
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks https://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/legal_texts/trtdocs_wo016.html
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/classification/nice/trtdocs_wo019.html
Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks https://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/classification/vienna/trtdocs_wo031.html
International Trademark Association (INTA) https://www.inta.org
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP) https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab/tbmp/
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System. https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/
Final Decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB) https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/foia/ttab/decsum/decsumm.htm
Trademark Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) https://www.inta.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=219&getcontent=4
California Trademark Law https://www.inta.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=219&getcontent=4
New York Trademark Law https://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/miscfae.html
Texas Trademark Law https://www.tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/BC/content/pdf/bc.002.00.000016.00.pdf
Texas Trademark Law https://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/trademark.shtml
Trade Secret Law Resources

What is a Trade Secret?

www.wipo.int/sme/en/ip_business/trade_secrets/trade_secrets.htm
Uniform Trade Secrets Act www.nsi.org/Library/Espionage/usta.htm
U.S. Code TITLE 18 § 1831. Economic Espionage www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1831.html
Design Patent Law Resources

Design Patents

https://www.bitlaw.com/patent/design.html
What Are Design Patents and When Are They Useful? https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9303.html
A Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/index.html
US Design Patents – Classification and Popularity https://www.freepatentsonline.com/design-patents.html
Design Patents: Sailing Through the PTO https://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/04/design-patents-sailing-through-the-pto.html
Elements of a Design Patent Application https://www.smallbusiness.findlaw.com/patent/patent-types/design-patent-application.html
Design Patents Vs Other Types of Intellectual Property, Definition of Design https://inventors.about.com/od/designpatents/a/design_patent.htm
Copyright Law Resources

United States Copyright Office

https://www.copyright.gov
Copyright: An Overview https://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Copyright
Copyrights Crash Course from UT System https://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top
The Copyright Website https://www.benedict.com/
Search copyright information https://www.copyright.gov/records/
Copyright Information Circulars and Factsheets https://www.copyright.gov/circs/
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright https://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#
U.S. Code TITLE 17—COPYRIGHTS https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies https://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/
Copyright Royalty Board https://www.loc.gov/crb/
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
CHAPTER 9. Fair Use https://fairuse.stanford.edu/
WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Environment https://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=16805
American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers https://www.ascap.com/index.html
Associating of Information Technology Professionals https://www.aitp.org/
Association for the Protection of Internet Copyright https://www.a-w.org/
Broadcast Music Inc. https://www.bmi.com/
Center for Democracy and Technology https://www.cdt.org/
Computer and Communications Industry Association https://www.ccianet.org/
Software Developers Forum https://www.sdforum.org/
Software Publishers Association https://www.spa.org/
Telecommunications Industry Association https://www.tiaonline.org/