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The internet is fast becoming a source for legal information related to all fields of Intellectual Property. Use of the internet and the world wide web has skyrocketed over the past three years. As a result, numerous web addresses or sites have emerged which contain Intellectual Property related material. Although primary sources such as federal legislation and cases are available, accuracy and quality are a question mark. Many of the sources are not up-to-date and generally, there is no way to check the accuracy of the materials listed. It is recommended that for the moment, one continue to use other sources for these materials. Nevertheless, in time, more primary sources will emerge on the net in more accurate and up-to-date forms.
At present, one can use the internet for a good collection of secondary sources comprising current stories and articles related to intellectual property as well as selected. Patent and Trademark seraching capabilites are also available on the internet. However, most searches can only be conducted for a fee from the many commercial search companies that maintain sites on the net. Of the patent databases available for free on the internet, they are limited to United States patents from the last year or to patents related to the AIDS virus or Biotechnolgy.
Quality and the amount of legal material available on the net will only increase. Although not yet a substitute for other sources of information, in the future, one may be able to use the internet to satisfy all their researching needs.
Below is a code key for each web site reviewed:
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret, Licensing
Primary Sources - Yes or No
Secondary Sources - Yes or No
Cases - Yes or No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Yes or No
Easy to Use - Yes or No
Fee(s) - Yes or No
Recommendation - Good / OK / Poor
The sites were evaluated with an eye towards what one could obtain at each site for FREE. Only material actually available at each site was noted in the table.
URL = http://fplc.edu/ipmall
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Provided by Franklin Pierce Law Center, this site offers an excellent collection of Hot Links and pointers to Intellectual Property servers on the internet. The list is subdivided into Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Technology Transfer and Computers.
URL = http://patents.cnidr.org/pto/access.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Althought this site is limited to AIDS patents, this is still one of the best sources on the Web to consult for patent searching. This Database provides free access to full-text United States patents related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as well as to HIV. This site is easy to use and search. An on-line help directory is available and Patents can be searched by keyword, title, abstract, inventor's name, assignee's name, etc... One can view the full text of each patent or only the abstract. Images can be viewed, however, additional image software is necessary. The search engine incorporates Boolean connectors found in most commercial databases. Hot keys jump to cross references.
URL = http://www.netaxs.com/~aengel/JapanAIDSPatents/list.htm
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Maintained by USTA, this site offers Japanese AIDS patents for 1995. Not all of the patents are available in full-text form. Some of the patents listed are merely summaries of the actual patent. Images are available without any additional software. To make searching easier, search strategies are offered as well as an article on how to search Japanese Patents. Of note, a directory of science and technology organizations in Japan is available. Hot Links to other AIDS patent datatbases are listed.
URL = http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/Biotech/Biotechnology_Patents-full_text
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This site provides access to an excellent collection of Biotechnology United States patents. Patents are arranged alphabetically by title and most of the patents listed are in full text form. No indication is given as to how complete this collection of patents is or how recent the list is. This site does not offer images. Of note, biotechnology patent classifications from the PTO manual are available. Numerous Hot links to other internet addresses focusing on biotechnology and biotechnology patents are listed.
URL = http://www.spo.eds.com/patent.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - OK
This commercial database provides United States patents from the last year. These patents are searchable by week and class description. Only the title and patent number are viewable. If you are a registered user of Electronic Data Systems, you can search their full collection of full-text patents dating back to 1972. However, these patents are only available for a fee.
URL = http://town.hall.org/patent/patent.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This database carries the full text of United States patents issued since January 1, 1994. On-line help is availabe as is an excellent search engine. One can search using "Natural Language," or by using terms and connectors. Field searching is also an option. Each query brings up documents ranked in terms of relevance to the words in the query. But, your search terms will not be highlighted in the patents called up. Images of the drawings are not offered. Hot Links to other Intellectual Property sites are listed.
URL = http://www.micropat.com/
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Poor
This commercial database is a teaser for Micropatent, a publisher of patent information. Little is offered for free by this site other than advertisements of their services. This site allows one to register with Micropatent on-line. Registering with Micropatent allows one access to their full collection of full text United States patents since 1976 for an additional fee. By registering, the last two weeks of United States patents are also available and searchable by patent class. On-line service is available for a fee. Type in your query on searching patents or other patent related information such as news, Patent & Trademark bulletins, etc... and a response is made within 24 hours by a customer service representative. Additional software is needed to view images of the full text patents ordered.
URL = http://www.vtcom.fr/nynex
Field - Trademark
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Trademark
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
This site can be used to search for business or company names in the northeast section of the United States. No trademark images are available. On-line help is offered and searches are made by entering a state and then selecting a business. Under construction, search engines allowing one to search by clicking on a map of the northeast and its states.
URL = http://unixg.ubc.ca:780/~rsimmer/patcat.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Poor
This site is a teaser for PATSCAN, a commercial patent searching service. As such, little information is available here for free. Most of the material at the site is devoted to advertisements and summaries of the services available from PATSCAN. Nevertheless, a limited collection of articles and news stories on patents are available. Currently, this site is under construction and access to material is limited. Hot Links to other IP sites are listed.
URL = http://www.thomson.com/thomthom.html
Field - Trademark
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Trademark
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Poor
This site is a teaser for Thomson & Thomson, a researcher of trademarks and copyrights. Little is offered for free other than a listing of their services. Provides a directory of customer service numbers and their addresses. A collection of notes on the "lifecycle" of trademarks and copyrights is helpful for the layperson. Topics covered in the notes include creation, title clearance, rights clearance, etc... . Hot links to other Intellectual Property sites are also available. One must subscribe to access T & T's search databases. Subscription serivices cost money.
URL = http://eln.bc.ca/DB.eng.O.patent/sel
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Limited selection of Canadian Patents searchable by name, classifcation, title or patent number. Boolean connectors can be used to assist in finding relevant patents. A Hot Link joins you with the rest of UBC's library resources.
URL = http://www.kentlaw.edu/lawlinks/ip.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This homepage for Chicago-Kent Law School provides numerous Hot Links to other Intellectual Property sites. Included among the sites are Cornell and the Librarey of Congress. Chicago-Kent offers a select list of Intellectual Property related news articles (full-text). Read-only access to legal-related USENET discussion groups as well as a number of internet law-related mailing lists are also available. The articles are searchable by keyword.
URL = http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This is probably the most comprehensive WWW site for computer-assisted research of law topics. Besides Intellectual Property, all other major areas of law are on-line with their own databases. Cornell has the best collection of Intellectual Property primary sources on the net (last updated in 1994). Both the full text versions of the Patent, Copyright, and Lanham Acts are availabe as well as a selection of other IP related statutes. Intellectual property areas are subdivided into Computer, Copyright, Patent, Technology Transfer and Trademark. Major statutes are searchable by keyword or section. A selection of IP related Supreme Court Cases and a number of international agreements and their IP sections are also viewable in full-text form. This site provides recent bulletins from the PTO and a selection of IP related articles. Hot Links to many other IP sites on the Web.
URL = http://www.sccsi.com/DaVinci/patentfaq.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
This site provides reference material summarizing the patent application process. Most of this is written in language suitable for understanding by the novice inventor. Recent fees of the US Patent & Trademark office are listed, although there is no indication as to how current they are.
URL = http://www.eff.org/pub/Intellectual_property
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This site is supported by a non-profit group promoting a number of issues related to use of the internet. This site contains a comprehensive collection of recent articles (full-text) regarding Intellectual Property policies and issues. The articles are searchable by topic, but a search will only list the directory where they can be found. A brief selection of primary sources related to the issues promoted by this organization is available. Chief among them are recent bills related to the internet and the information superhighway. This is an excellent source for keeping track of Intellectual Property and how it will be handled on the internet. Many Hot Links to other IP related sites.
URL = http://www.bdt.org.br/inpi
This site is devoted to Brazilian Patent Law (in Portuguese)
URL = http://www.kuesterlaw.com/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This is an excellent source for information on the field of Intellectual Property. Besides numerous HOT LINKS to other IP related sites, this Web address has a good collection of IP primary and secondary sources. The full text versions of recent court decisions in the field of intellectual property and recent bills related to intellectual property are available. Among the articles listed are numerous papers on computer software patenting and copyrighting. A layman's guide to various aspects of Intellectual property, such as "what is a patent," makes this a good site for novice inventors. A directory of IP news groups is listed. Of note, a separate section devoted to Georgia Law and intellectual property in Georgia is provided.
URL = http://www.naming.com/naming.html
Field - Trademark
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Trademark
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - OK
This commericial database is more of an advertisement for Master-McNeil, a provider of product and corporate naming services, than anything else. A list of international trademark classes and USPTO and international trademark application forms are provided. Hot links to trade mark related sites (Cornell's Lanham Act) are available. For a fee, one can register to receive Master-McNeil's services on-line. By registering, one can get images of trademarks available in their databases as well as other searchable material. Additional software is needed to view the trademark images.
URL = http://www.webcom/~scpatent/scpa.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
This is a good source for patent information from the U.S. Patent & Trademark office. A quick summary of the PTO and the names of examiners with their phone numbers are provided. There is no indication as to how old the material in this database is. A list PTO fees and the Manual of Patent Examination Procedure are available. Additional software may be needed to view certain scanned pages of the MPEP. Tips on claims drafing and selected sections from the Code of Federal Regulations on preparation of patent drawings may be of use to both the patent attorney and inventor. A listing of recent patent names and numbers for Chemical and Electrical U.S. patents from the last six months is included in the directories of this site. Recent articles on IP news include a number of papers on the GATT.
URL = http://www.questel.orbit.com/patents
Field - Patent, Trademark
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Poor
This site is an advertisement for Questel/ Orbit. A summary of their services provides a description of Questel's patent search capabilities. Numberous Hot Links to other IP related sites on the internet. The best ones connect you to other sites such as the AIDS patent databse which allow you to search patents on-line. Questel's site maintains an archive of patents issued in 1994-95 that is searchable for free. On-line help and keyword searching of this limited patent database is available at no charge. A list of available patent numbers makes searching this database easy. Drawings are not available in this archive. Questel has provided a selection of essays and internet mailing lists covering patents, trademarks and other aspects of intellectual property.
URL = http://www.rwcp.or.jp/patent_rules.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Selected text of U.S. and Japanese Patent rules. Full text versions are not offered, only summary material. Hot keys allow you to jump around the text for easy browsing.
URL = http://www.lpf.org/Patents/patents.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Provided by The League for Programming Freedom, this site is devoted to the promotion of opposition to software patents. This is a good site to view recent discussion related to software patents. A number of articles, transcripts, testimony and company statements on the issue of software patenting are provided. Of note, company statements from major software companies are separated according to their stance on the patenting of software.
URL = http://sunsite.unc.edu.patents/intropat.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Patent
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
This site, run by Greg Aharonian, is a good place to search for patent information. This site allows you to perform limited patent searching and gain access to information on the patenting process. Besides numberous hot links to other IP sites covering patents, this site has its own archives on Patent Law. An index to all U.S. Patent classes and subclasses is searchable by class or subclass code. This index is also further subdivided into chemical, electrical, and design patents as well as engineering and mechanical patents. This index or manual of classification allows the inventor or patent attorney to retreive patent titles or patent abstracts. A good collection of documents from the Patent & Trademark Offices in the United States, Great Britain, Brazil and Hong Kong allows one to gain information about the patent application process. Examiner names, filing fees, and the locations of PTO depository libraries are but a few of the topics covered in this collection of documents. There is also a good collection of news articles on patents and clips from various patents. Selected text from the Code of Federal Regulations on patent drawing is available as well as web mailing lists of IP related USENET groups. By registering, one can also be placed on STO's mailing list to receive for free a weekly mailing of all patents released during the past week and other patent news. This mailing list can be tailored to a specific technical area.
URL = http://www.pls.com:8001/his/105.htm
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Good
This is one of the better sites on the internet for primary sources. Selected U.S. Federal Legislation, pending or otherwise, scanned from the Code of Federal Regulations, Constitution, Federal Register and transcripts of testimony from selected government hearings are provided. Be sure to check the date and accuracy of primary material taken from these sources. All major IP statutes, such as the Copyright and Patent Acts are available and searchable by section or keyword. Summaries of Intellectual Property Law in foreign countries are on file as well as a selection of articles on current Intellectual Property issues. Access to some of these sources may be limited. One might have to be a registered user to view all materials at this site. Hot links to other IP related sites that are government affiliated and a directory of legal professionals make this a good place to scan for federal government material. The entire full text version of GATT is on-line and searchable by section. Much of the material at this site can be downloaded directly into certain word processor programs (Word Perfect or ASCII seem to be the prevelant format). Reviews of selected Law Books are a unique feature of this web address. Finally, a few IP related cases (full text) are on file in the Intellectual Property archive. Most of the cases are related to recent patent cases such as biotechnology or software.
URL = http://timon.sir.arizona.edu/govdocs/inprop/cover.htm
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
This site is maintained by the University of Arizona School of Library Science. Most of the material offered here is Hot Linked to material offered by other sites on the internet. Information is divided into category headings such as Intellectual Propery, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Laws & Treaties. This site is a good access point to other sites offering the full text versions of major IP laws and treaties available on the internet.
URL = http://www.uspto.gov/
Field - Patent, Trademark
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Operated by the Patent & Trademark Office, this address is an excellent site for up to date news on Patents, Trademarks and the application process for both at the PTO. In particular, excellent summaries of the changes implemented by GATT and its subsequent effect on Patent Law are available. Upcoming changes to the CFR and the MPEP are also online and available in full-text form. Speeches & press releases on patent law and current PTO news are provided. A selection of articles on IP or technology, such as the National Information Infrastructure, also cover current news. Hot Links to other Patent related sites and a Hot Link to the Library of Congress for information on Copyright are listed. For the inventor, businessperson or even the attorney, excellent summaries (much of it borrowed from the actual CFR provisions) on the Patent and Trademark appication/ registration process are available for those wishing to learn about how the PTO functions. Included is these summaries are frequently asked questions and their answers as well as basic facts about patents and trademarks.
URL = http://www.yahoo.com/Law/Intellectual_Property/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Trade Secret
Primary Sources -
Secondary Sources -
Cases -
Patent / Trademark Searching -
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Only links to other sites
URL = http://www.openmarket.com/copyright/
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Yes
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - Yes
Recommendation - Good
Searches for copyright royalty information; demo free. Provides certain licenses.
URL = http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/gen/ref/ILTcopy.html
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases -
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Good copyright reference site
URL = http://execpc.com/~mhallign/
Field - Trade Secret
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Great reference on trade secrets. Appears to be updated.
URL = http://www.bna.com/hub/bna/legal/index.html
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Primarily advertisement for BNA books/service. Also links to other sites.
URL = http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6095/articles/barlow-economy-of-ideas.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
One person's ideas about IP. "Everything you know about IP is wrong." No table of contents.
URL = http://galaxy.einet.net/galaxy/Law/Intellectual-Property.html
Field - Patent, Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Great collection of IP articles and links buried in a mass of non-IP material.
URL = http://seamless.com/rcl/places.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Only links to other sites
URL = http://www.ideas.wis.net//inside25.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Small Business Guide for Innovation. Newsmagazine. Ideas for exploiting IP.
URL = http://www.houston.com.hk/hkgipd/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
IP information related to Hong Kong. "How to" guide to IP protection. News, treaties. Good introduction to local law.
URL = http://www.portal.com:80/~recorder/recorder.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Quarterly IP newsmagazine. Internet version of "The Recorder" - San Francisco legal magazine. Poor table of contents.
URL = http://ananse.irv.uit.no/trade_law/nav/trade.html
Field - Licensing
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Site under construction, with disclaimer of warranty. Once completed may be good. Keyword searches. Links. International trade treaties (GATT, etc.) FOR FREE. Detailed table of contents.
URL = http://www.island.com/LegalCare/welcome.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Excellent source of information on software law. This is a copyrighted book, so cannot be downloaded, but can be purchased at bookstore. Great table of contents. Cites to primary and secondary authority. Footnotes.
URL = http://www.hal.com:80/~markg/LegaLink/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Quarterly newsletter of current electronic media happenings. Cites to primary authority and cases.
URL = http://www.psg.com/nii.ipr/overview.html
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Online drafts of reports available for public comment. Articles.
URL = http://wattle.itd.adelaide.edu.au:80/~bill/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Introduction to Australian IP. "How to" guide. Advertisement for Australian IP firm.
URL = http://thomas.loc.gov/
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Yes
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Free source of legislative history. Searches full text of Congressional Record (103d and 104th Congress). Help provided. Site by Library of Congress.
URL = http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/journals/tiplj/tiplj.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Texas IP L.J. online. No way to search. Only good for browsing. Cites to primary authority and cases.
URL = http://lawlib.wuacc.edu/forint/intell.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
International IP law. Country by country substantive law. Treaties.
URL = http://www.batnet.com/oikoumene/index.html
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Various links to other sites. Newsupdates.
URL = http://137.79.70.19/tu.html
Field - Patent, Copyright, Licensing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Yes
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Jet Propulsion Lab technology/software available for licensing. Searching capability. Advertisement.
URL = http://www.keds.com/
Field - Patent, Copyright, Lincesing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Technology transfer. Great source of catalog/pricing information. Access to fee charging sites.
URL = http://iridium.nttc.edu/nttc.html
Field - Licensing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Links to technology transfer sites. Lots of information to sift through.
URL = http://www.catalog.com/napmsv/soft.htm
Field - Copyright, Licensing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Article on what software licensing involves. No table of contents. No links.
URL = http://www.tech-board.com/tbot/
Field - Patent, Copyright, Licensing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - Yes
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Software technology exchange. No order to long lists, but searching capability.
URL = http://ra.cs.ohiou.edu/gopher/non-academic/tto/vlohome.html
Field - Patent, Licensing
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Links to other sites. Good place to start technology transfer search.
URL = http://tsw.ingress.com/tsw/rcl/infolaw.html
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Infolaw Web. Promises more than it delivers.
URL = http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Library of Congress homepage. Advertisement and links.
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/copyright
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - Yes
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Good
Maintained by the U.S. Copyright Office, this is an excellent site for Copyright related materials. Summaries of major Copyright doctrine and information are listed. This is a good source for recent bulletins from the Copyright Office. There is a good selection of cases, laws and treaties on Copyright as well as a summary of the registration process.
gopher://arl.cni.org:70+/11/scomm/ip
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
This menu provides a number of artilces on Intellectual Property as well as selected statements and testimony from recent Intellectual Property conferences or committee reports.
gopher://usa.net/11News%20and%20Information/Patent
Field - Patent
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
Besides providing access to STO's software prior art database and search sevices, this site lists a number of recent news artilces on Intellectual Property. Most of the articles are focused on Patent news.
gopher://econwpa.wustl.edu:70/11/io/9411/9411004
Field - Patent, Trademark, Copyright, Tradesecrets
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
This site offers various forms of a paper on the Economics of Intellectual Property Protection for Software. The paper can be downloaded into select word processing programs.
gopher://cause-gopher.colorado.edu:70+/11exchange-library/browse-subject/copyright
Field - ?
Primary Sources - ?
Secondary Sources - ?
Cases - ?
Patent / Trademark Searching - ?
Easy to Use - ?
Fee(s) - ?
Recommendation - ?
After numerous trys, this site could not be accessed. Basically, it contains a collection of Intellectual Property related news articles and the like. Many of these materials are offered elsewhere on the internet.
gopher://gopher.cni.org:70/11/cniftp/forums/cni-copyright
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Hard to read. Introduction to copyright. Draft report. Not much is here.
gopher://ns1.infor.com:4700/11.browse/Intellectual%20Property
Field - Patent, Copyright,
Primary Sources - No
Secondary Sources - No
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - Poor
Catalog and ordering information for six items. IP buried in mass of non-IP information.
gopher://palimpsest.stanford.edu:70/11/ByTopic/copyright
Field - Patent, Copyright,
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
gopher://gopher.lib.virginia.edu:70/11/alpha/copyright
Field - Copyright
Primary Sources - Yes
Secondary Sources - Yes
Cases - No
Patent / Trademark Searching - No
Easy to Use - Yes
Fee(s) - No
Recommendation - OK
Copyright fair use. Texaco case. Not much else.
gopher://gopher.tmn.com:70/11/Artswire/OtherArt/Gophers/Other.gophers.copy
Field - ?
Primary Sources - ?
Secondary Sources - ?
Cases - ?
Patent / Trademark Searching - ?
Easy to Use - No
Fee(s) - ?
Recommendation - Poor
Searchable gopher. Only search page found. Couldn't figure out how it worked.
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