What this service is:

The Intellectual Property Law Resource Center delivers comprehensive access to Bloomberg BNA's full collection of intellectual property news, 80+ years of case law, statutes, regulations, analysis, and practice tools — providing you with the ability to work more efficiently and keep up with the latest industry developments. The platform covers all areas of IP law, categorized into four practice areas: Patent Law, Trademark & Unfair Trade Practice Law, Copyright Law, and Judicial Practice & Procedure.

What it helps you do:

• Access the full-text decisions of the most significant intellectual property, trademark, and copyright law cases from United States Patent Quarterly, Bloomberg BNA's fully-headnoted online library of every significant IP case since 1929.
  
• Search your Bloomberg BNA news, analysis, and U.S. Patents Quarterly case law at the same time. It integrates the content and tools that you need to work more efficiently throughout the business day.
• Get fast answers to your questions using the Resource Center’s topic pages. Now, all of your Bloomberg BNA IP content is organized by practice area, so you can find what you need instantly.
• Quickly stay informed on which rulings are relevant to your case with headnotes prepared by Bloomberg BNA legal editors, via our exclusive Headnote Finder tool.
• Keep up with SOPA, PIPA, and other legislative efforts to deal with online infringement.
• Receive clear guidance on the issues most affecting your practice or clients with 22 of our renowned IP law treatises, available in the following packages: Patent Litigation, Patent Prosecution, IP Technology, Copyright and Trademark.
• Stay on top of the news via Bloomberg BNA’s IP notifications, including BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal® which offers unique depth and focus on the developments that most affect U.S. IP law—cases, legislation, regulation, agency guidance, and industry intelligence.
• Understand the implications of key legal developments, legislative activity, and trends with our new BNA Insights series of articles and videos from expert practitioners.
• Get to the heart of IP-related legal, legislative, and regulatory news and trends from around the world with the World Intellectual Property Report™.
• Speed and refine your research with instant links to Bloomberg BNA books and treatises, Corporate Practice Portfolios, laws and regulations, practice tools, and more.
• Track your competitors in the news, and find out about law firm changes, in our People on the Move section.

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance, and primary source material

Decisions: full-text judicial, administrative, and arbitrator opinions and rulings, with headnotes

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency 

The Resource Center is updated continually. World Intellectual Property Report e-mail updates are sent out continually. BNA’s Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal e-mail updates are sent out daily, plus latest-development e-mails as important news breaks.

• Biotechnology
• Cable TV and digital audio recording technology
• Computer software protection
• Copyrights
• Derivative works
• Dilution
• Electronic commerce
• Fair use
• First-to-file patent system
• Generic drugs
• Genetic engineering
• "On sale" and public use
• Import restrictions
• Inequitable conduct
• Internet
• Patents
• Product configuration
• PTO procedures
• Public performance
• Software protection
• Tariff and trade agreements
• Technology innovation
• Trade secrets
• Trademarks
• Unfair competition