Intellectual Property Resources

Copyright Law Resources

Basic U.S. Primary Sources

• Title 17 of the United States Code
• Copyright Office Regulations
• Supreme Court Cases about Copyright (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
• Circuit Court Cases about Copyright (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
  

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Resources

• Association of Research Libraries, "Digital Millennium Copyright Act Status and Analysis"
• Case Archive: DVD/DeCSS litigation (2600.com)
• Compiled Legislative History (Home Recording Rights Association)
• Copyright Office Study Required by Section 104 of the DMCA
• Electronic Frontier Foundation "Intellectual Property - Digital Millennium Copyright Act Archive"
• Congressional Research Service Report: Safe Harbor for Service Providers under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (RL32037, 8/15/2003)

No Electronic Theft (NET) Act Resources

• Compiled Legislative History (Thomas: the Library of Congress Home Page)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation "Legal - No Electronic Theft (NET) Act & Sentencing Guidelines" Archive
• United States Sentencing Commission's "No Electronic Theft Act Policy Team Report, February 1999"

Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act Resources

• Case Archive: Eldred v. Ashcroft (Berkman Center's OPENLAW)
• Legislative History
  • Floor Action (with Congressional Register links)
  • House Report 105-452 (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader; may be slow loading)
  • Related Bills
  • Session Law Text

Patent Law Resources

Basic U.S. Primary Sources

• Title 35 of the United States Code (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• USPTO Regulations
• Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences
  • Final Decisions
  • Interference Trial Section Opinions
• Manual of Patent Classification
• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
• Recent Patent-Related Notices of the USPTO
• USPTO Patent Database
• Supreme Court Cases about Patent Law (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
• Daily Log of Opinions, Decisions & Orders of the Federal Circuit
• Federal Circuit Opinions from the E.B. Williams Law Library (Georgetown)
• Rules and Forms of the Federal Circuit

American Inventors Protection Act Resources

• AIPA Text
• AIPA Articles from the USPTO
• Congressional Research Service Report: "American Inventors Protection Act of 1999" (RS20249, 10/19/1999)
• Congressional Research Service Report: "Patents and Innovation: Issues in Patent Reform" (97-599, 8/24/1999)
• White & Case, LLP, "Summary of the New Rules Governing The Examination and Publication of U.S. Patent Applications"

Biotechnology Patent Resources

• Intellectual Property Practices in the Field of Biotechnology (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; Adobe Acrobat Reader required)
• Patent Pools: A Solution to the Problem of Access in Biotechnology Patents? (a white paper commissioned by the USPTO; requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
• Trilateral Study on the Patentability of DNA Fragments (EPO, JPO, USPTO)
• USPTO: Manual of Patent Examining Procedure Edition 8, Chapter 2400 - Biotechnology
• USPTO: Public Comments on Guidelines for Determining the Utility of Gene-Related Patents

Business Method Patents Resources

• Business Method Patents Online by William Fisher and Geri Zollinger (an online tutorial at Harvard Law School)
• Business Methods Still Experiencing Substantial Growth - Report of Fiscal year 2001 Statistics (article from USPTO Today)
• Cases rejecting the "business methods" exception to patentability:
  • State Street Bank & Trust Co. v. Signature Financial Group, Inc., 139 F.3d 1368 (Fed. Cir. 1998).
  • AT & T Corp. v. Excel Communications, Inc., 172 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 1999).
  • Amazon.com, Inc. v. BarnesandNoble.com, Inc., No. C99-1695P (W.D. WA 1999)
    
• Panel Discussion on Business Method Patents (held by the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Internet Society)
• USPTO's Patent Business Methods page
  

Trademark Law Resources

Basic U.S. Primary Sources

• Federal:
  • Title 15, Chapter 22 of the United States Code (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
  • USPTO Trademark Regulations
  • Supreme Court Cases about Trademark (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
  • Circuit Court Cases about Trademark (from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell)
  • Trademark Electronic Search System (follow link then click "Search Trademarks")
  • Trademark Trial and Appeals Board
    • Final Decisions
    • Manual of Procedure
  • Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
• State:
  • Maryland Trademark Statutes (Md. Code, Bus. Reg. §§ 1-401 to 1-414)
  • Maryland Trademarks & Service Marks (database from the Maryland Secretary of State's Office)
  • Model State Trademark Bill

Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) Resources

• ACPA Text (from P.L. 106-113)
• USPTO Report to Congress: The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999, Section 3006 Concerning the Abusive Registration of Domain Names
• Case Archive: Ford Motor Co. v. GreatDomains.com (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
• Comparison of the Trademark Cyberpiracy Prevention Act [ACPA] and the [ICANN] Uniform Domain Dispute Resolution Policy
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney, 263 F.3d 359 (4th Cir. 2001) (Parody case under the ACPA)
• Sporty's Farm, LLC v. Sportsman's Market, Inc., 53 U.S.P.Q.2d 1570 (2d Cir. 2000) (First appellate decision under the ACPA)

Federal Trademark Dilution Act

• Compiled Legislative History (Thomas: the Library of Congress Home Page)
• Case Archive: Moseley v. V. Secret Catalogue, Inc. (IPWatchdog.com)
• Ira Jay Levy, "The Federal Trademark Dilution Act - Much Hobbled One Year after Victoria's Secret," The Metripolitan Corporate Counsel, Feb. 2004, at p. 23
• Jonathan Mermin, Student Author, "Interpreting the Federal Trademark Dilution Act of 1995: The Logic of the Actual Dilution Requirement," 42 B.C. L. Rev. 207 (2000)

Journals

• American Journal of Bioethics
• Berkeley Technology Law Journal
• BNA's Electronic Commerce & Law Report
• BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal
• Columbia Science & Technology Law Review
• Duke Law & Technology Review
• Information & Communications Technology Law
• Intellectual Property & Technology Forum at Boston College
• Journal of Science & Technology Law (Boston University)
• Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review
• Pike and Fischer Internet Law and Regulation
• Review of Intellectual Property Law (John Marshall Law School)
• Stanford Technology Law Review
• Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
• UCLA Journal of Law & Technology
• Virginia Journal of Law & Technology
• Yale Journal on Law & Technology

Agencies, Associations, & Non-Governmental Organizations

• American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Copyright Office of the Library of Congress
• Copyright Society of the USA
• Digital Future Coalition
• Domain Name Rights Coalition
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• High Tech Council of Maryland
• Home Recording Rights Coalition
• International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property
• International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
• International Trademark Association
• Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center
• National Association of Patent Practitioners
• Organization of American States - Intellectual Property
• Software & Information Industry Association
• Technology Development Corporation
• University of Maryland Baltimore County Tech Center ( a business incubator)
• World Intellectual Property Organization
• World Trade Organization (WTO) - Intellectual Property Site