Intellectual Property Links

Patent Law ?

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Includes information on the patent and trademark process as well as a database of searchable patents and abstracts back to 1976 with images that are easy to print.

Franklin Pierce Law Center: Article on Intellectual Property: The Practical and Legal Fundamentals.

Legal Information Institute: An overview of Patent law.

Espacenet: A portal for searching European patent databases.

European Patent Office (EPO): The EPO has 31 member states. Established by the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC) signed in Munich in 1973, the EPO is a centralized patent grant system administered by the European Patent Office on behalf of all contracting states. This site offers a database of EPO (EP) and PCT (WO) patents and has many useful web links.

Delphion: USPTO patent descriptions and over 1.4 million European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Office patents and applications goes back to 1978. This site allows fee searching with a fee-based retrieval system

Copyright Law ?

U.S. Copyright Office: Everyhing you wanted to know about copyrights.

Crash course in copyright: A crash course in copyright From the University of Texas.

Trademark Law ?

U. S. Trademark section at the USPTO: U.S. Tademarks, information and guidance

Franklin Pierce Law Center: Article on Trademarks and business goowill

Legal Information Institute: Trademark law, an overview.