Intellectual Property: Web Resources
USPTO
United States Patent and Trademark Office
- Getting started
- Patent basics
- Process overview
- Legal assistance and resources
- Inventor resources
- International cooperation
- Patent FAQs
- Application process
- Search for patents
- Learn about patent classification
- Filing online
- Checking application status
- Responding to Office actions
- Patent Trial and Appeal Board
- Petitions
- Maintaining a patent
- Maintenance fees
- Correcting your patent
- Transferring ownership
- Ordering certified documents
Trademarks
Getting started
Trademark basics
Process overview
Trademark FAQs
Using private legal services
Caution: misleading offers and notices
Madrid Protocol & international protection
Application process
Searching trademarks
Apply online
Disclosure of public information
Checking application status & viewing documents
Responding to Office actions
Abandoned applications
Ordering certified documents
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
Maintaining a trademark registration
Keeping your registration alive
Forms to file
Checking registration status & viewing documents
Enforcing your trademark rights/trademark litigation
Transferring ownership
IP Policy
- IP policy
- Patent
- Trademark
- Copyright
- Trade secret
- Enforcement
- Governmental affairs
- Economic research
- International affairs
- IP Attaché Program
- IP in China
- IP rights training & research
- Global Intellectual Property Academy (GIPA)
- eLearning modules
- IP programs at GIPA
- Economic research publications
Learning & Resources
- Resources by audience
- Attorneys, agents & paralegals
- Inventors & entrepreneurs
- Kids & educators
- Media
- Researchers & librarians
- Patent & trademark practitioners
- Help by topic
- Fees and payment
- General FAQs
- Patents FAQs
- Trademark FAQs
- Transferring ownership / Assignments help
- Services & publications
- Open data & mobility
- Federal Register Notices
- Official Gazette
- Support centers
- XML resources
- Classification
- Statistics
Tools & Links
- Operational status
- Events
- Newsletter archives
- Glossary of terms
- Subscriptions
- How-to videos
- IP programs and awards
- Executive actions
- More tools & links
Web Resources
Associations
- American Bar Association: Intellectual Property Section
- American Intellectual Property Law Association
- International Trademark Association
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Law Portals
- Legal Information Institute (Cornell) (Intellectual Property)
- FindLaw (Intellectual Property)
- Hieros Gamos (Intellectual Property Law - US)
- Intellectual Property Digital Library (WIPO GOLD)
Comprehensive Sites
- BitLaw
- GigaLaw
- Intellectual Property (Law Guru)
- Intellectual Property Law Server
- Knowledge Ecology International (previously Consumer Project on Technology)
General How-To
Journals
Law School IP Sites
- Chilling Effects (Harvard, et al)
- Intellectual Property and Technology Forum (Boston College)
- Lawrence Lessig
- Opposing Copyright Extension
Copyright
- Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University)
- Copyright Office (U.S.)
- Copyright Office Circulars
- Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
- Is it Protected by Copyright? (Chart)
- Duration of Copyright (U.S. Copyright Office Circular)
- National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy
- Open Access: Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition
- Primary Sources on Copyright, 1450-1900
Cybercrime
Legislation: US & Foreign
- Collection of Laws (WIPO)
Patents & Trademarks
- FreePatentsOnline.com (patent analytics and patent searching)
- Google Patent Search (fulltext patents from 1790's through mid 2006)
- Espacenet: free access to over 100 million patent documents
- Overview of Trademark Law
- Patent & Trademark Office (U.S.)
- Patent Law Links
- PatentStorm (full text patents)