Intellectual Property Sites

General IP Sites | Copyright | Patents and Trademarks | IP Organizations | IP News

General IP Sites

• ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law Contains proposed legislation and a section of IP links of potential interest.
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)  The site has a selective collection of IP links. 
• American Patent & Trademark Law Center General information on patents and trademarks including tips on searching.
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office Home to searchable databases for patents, trademarks, copyright, and industrial design.
• Intellectual Property Links  Official gazettes, case law, regulations, IP publications, and much more.
• Intellectual Property Resources (NYU) Lists links to IP organizations, journals, and primary authorities.  
• IP Mall (Franklin Pierce)  A comprehensive IP site with introductory and in-depth IP material. 
  • Franklin Pierce's Professor Thomas Field also maintains a Web page with a variety of useful IP resources, including introductions to copyright and trademark law.
• Kuester Law
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  International copyright, patent and trademark information.
  • Collection of Laws for Electronic Access A searchable database of international laws on IP and treaties administered by WIPO.
  • WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center  Web site contains the text of WIPO arbitration and mediation rules and procedures and additional publications relating to international alternative dispute resolution.
   

Copyright

• Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford)  The site includes links to statutes, opinions, treaties, conventions and links to IP internet sites.
• Copyright & IP Table of Contents (Association of Research Libraries) Links to statutes, proposed and pending legislation, and to recent case law.  
• IP Menu - Global Copyright Resources Collection of copyright resources for select countries, including Canada, Portugal, Greece, and the U.K
• Legal Information Institute – Copyright (Cornell) Comprehensive source for copyright information including links to international material.    
• U.S. Copyright Office Includes links to legislation, regulations, federal register notices and information circulars.
  • Copyright Basics Introduction to copyright law.
   

Patents and Trademarks 

• Legal Information Institute – Patent Law (Cornell) Includes primary sources and other references for patent law, including international sites.
• Legal Information Institute – Trademarks (Cornell) Comprehensive source for trademark law, including links to federal and state materials.
• Patent and Trademark Library, Sunnyvale Center for Innovation, Invention and Ideas (Sci3) Provides patent and trademark information to inventors, researchers, and corporations
• Patent Information on the Internet LLRX.com's electronic pathfinder to sites for patent research.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office Includes applicable manuals,searchable databases, notices, forms and fee information.
  • General Information Concerning Patents  Overview of patent law and the patent process.
  • Basic Facts about Trademarks  Overview of trademark and the registration process.
• Free Patents Online Provides free patent searching of U.S. and European patents and U.S. patent applications.

IP Organizations

• ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law Contains proposed legislation and a section of IP links of potential interest.
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)  The site has a selective collection of IP links.
• Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Recent copyright and IP statutes and cases, news, issues related to scholarly publishing, and news.
• Copyright Clearance Center Useful information on how to obtain copyright permission, license published works, etc.  
• European Patent Office (EPO) Find legal texts (case law, regulations) as well as official publications of the EPO.
• International Trademark Association (ITA) Provides access to legal briefs, articles, reports on legislative developments, and other useful materials.  

IP News

• Anything Under the Sun Made By Man Russ Krajec is a registered patent attorney, engineer and inventor with over 20 United States patents.
• Bag and Baggage Written by an appellate, intellectual property and technology lawyer
• beSpacific Provides daily law and technology news with links to reliable primary and secondary sources on topics including: e-government, privacy, government documents, cybercrime and ID theft, the Patriot Act, freedom of information, federal legislation, legal research, KM, blogs, RSS and wikis.
• Bio Lex Tech A law blog (blawg) of Anthony Cerminaro focused on biotech, bioengineering, bioinformatics, genomics, biometrics, and other biotechnology
• Blawg
• Boing Boing
  
• Business Journal of San Jose
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse Notices A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics.
• Creative Commons: weblog Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
• DennisKennedy.blog Dennis Kennedy is a well-known lawyer, consultant, speaker and writer who is considered among the most influential experts on the application of technology in the practice of law.
• EEJD Focused is on technology law, policy, and innovation.
• EFF: Deep Links Electronic Frontiers Foundation's RSS feed
• Engadget Very popular tech news website
• Eric's Blog Mostly news with a focus on copyright law and intellectual property issues.
• Freedom to Tinker The focus is on issues related to legal regulation of technology, and especially on legal attempts to restrict the right of technologists and citizens to tinker with technological devices.
• Furdlog
• GrepLaw Greplaw is a production of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Greplaw's goal is to create a frequently updated, highly interactive forum for the dissemination and discussion of legal news concerning information technology.
• GrokLaw A very popular IP news website
• Guiding Rights Blog Trademarks, Copyright and the Internet, by Mark V.B. Partridge, Partner, Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson LLP, Chicago, Illinois
• Information Overlord Information Management and Librarian Blog with a communications media and technology law slant from Scott Vine.
• InternetCases.com Legal developments involving the Internet and new technologies
• IPBiz Intellectual property news affecting business and everyday life
• IPwar's
• kuro5hin.org Popular tech news website
• Latest IP Headlines from ag-IP-news Agency ag-IP-news Agency, is a pilot project that has been exclusively established to cover Intellectual Property news, events and activities.
• nerdlaw.org Law for nerds at heart.
  
• Patent Baristas
• Patent Pending - Inventions and Technology Updates
• Patently Obvious: a patent law resource
• Patently Silly - The Humor of Invention
• PHOSITA ::: an intellectual property weblawg
• ResearchBuzz News about search engines, databases, and other information collections.
• Richmond IP Institute
• Slashdot
• Tech Law Advisor :: dot com
• Tech Law Journal This Web site's reference page has useful links to a wide variety of technology and IP law-related sites, including IP and tech law blawgs.
• Tech Law Prof Blog
• The Becker-Posner Blog
• The Invent Blog | Necessity's Progeny | Nipper's Patent Law Blog
• The Trademark Blog
• The TTABlog
• Two-Seventy-One Patent Blog
• Wendy's Blog: Legal Tags

Date of last update: November 6, 2009