The Philadelphia Intellectual Property
Law Association

Places on the Internet where you can find further resources relating to Intellectual Property Law

• Intellectual Property Sites
• Trademark Sites
• Copyright Sites
• Patent Sites
• Misc. Sites
• International Sites

Intellectual Property Sites:

• The Official Gazette -- Trademarks, The official journal of the USPTO relating to trademarks.
• Search over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last ten years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971. You can search, retrieve and study over two million patents.
• EFF Intellectual Property Issues & Policy Archive. An archive of documentation covering IP issues, mostly related to the Internet, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties organization working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
• ACM's National Intellectual Property Rights Issues
• Usenet - misc.int-property (Requires that you have a net news server configured in your browser)
• The Wacky Patent of the Month is devoted to recognizing selected inventors and their remarkable and unconventional patented inventions.
• Intellectual Property Law forum, a Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum.
• The TechnoLawyer Community

Trademark Sites:

• CCH Corsearch Provider of trademark and copyright research services.
• General Information Concerning Trademarks [USPTO]
• U.S. Trademark Law (Cornell)
• Thomson & Thomson Trademark & Copyright Services. Search Internet domain name online database, Trademark Alert Online Magazine, and The International Guide to Trademarks.

Copyright Sites:

• U.S. Copyright Office
• RightsBase -- ILTguide to Copyright and Related Resources

Patent Sites:

• U.S Patent and Trademark Office World Wide Web.
• General Information Concerning Patents [USPTO]
• EDS - Shadow Patent Office (SPO), allows full-text searching of almost two million U.S. patents listed since 1972.
• U.S. Patent/Full Text 1994. Search through patents issued in 1994/1995.
• Overview of Patents & Patent Practice
• Patent Search (WAIS)
• STO's Internet Patent Search System
• U.S. Patent Law (Cornell)
• U.S. Patent Directory, a commercial site which displays patents that are either for sale or license. USPD merely presents information about Intellectual Property and has no other interest in that property, including agency or partner relationships with any inventor or IP owner.
• Patent & IP Law Practice forum, a Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum.
• Patent Law Links forum, a Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum.
• Patent&Trademark Law forum, a Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum.
• Patent Careers forum, a Yahoo Groups Discussion Forum.
• GEN-ERIC Patent News

Misc. Sites:

• The Villanova Information Law Chronicle. This excellent online resource is sponsored by The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
• The Electronic Frontier Foundation. A non-profit group promoting universal access to online information, privacy and free expression.
• The U.S. Census Bureau, the federal government's offical gatherer of a host of different kinds of data, including the population count.
• FedWorld Information Network, provides a complete listing of federal government electronic information providers.
• The Federal Web Locator Service, this site lists over 240 different links for federal government WWW sites, including the USPTO and FCC.
• The Legal Intelligencer For more than 150 years, lawyers have relied on The Legal Intelligencer to deliver accurate and timely reporting of legal news and opinions in Philadelphia.
• The Philadelphia Bar Association Founded in 1802, the Philadelphia Bar Association is America's oldest chartered metropolitan bar association.
• I'll Take the Money, Thanks by James Gleick Author James Gleick presents his opinion about copyright and the Internet.
• Trademark Wars on the Web An extensive, if not comprehensive, list of web sites that have been cited in one way or another for trademark concerns.
• 10 Big Myths about Copyright Explained
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse A joint project of the Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, and University of San Francisco law school clinics to explain the rights of individuals who have received a letter asking them to remove information from a Web site or to stop engaging in an activity.
• Intellectual Property Links --- Compiled by German Patent Attorney Ralph Beier

International Sites:

• I*M Europe (Information Market, Europe), information regarding the European Electronic Services Market in the European Union.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

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