IP Law Links
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General IP Law Resources |
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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 |
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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/ |
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Trademark Law Resources |
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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 |
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Trade Secret Law Resources |
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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 |
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Design Patent Law Resources |
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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 |
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Copyright Law Resources |
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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/ |