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Intellectual Property Library

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What this service is:

Build your practice in a dynamic legal field with the most comprehensive collection of resources available on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations, analytical materials, and more — all easily searchable.

What it helps you do:

Get fast access to the full text of cases published in U.S. Patents Quarterly® and USPQ Second Series, the most authoritative case reporting service in intellectual property law for more than 70 years.

Review full text of IP court decisions since 1929 (USPQ and USPQ2d).

Explore a wealth of intellectual property decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals (including the Federal Circuit), U.S. Court of Federal Claims (and its predecessor, U.S. Claims Court), U.S. District Courts, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Tax Court, state courts, and various special courts. The Library publishes decisions often weeks before they appear anywhere else.

Obtain precise search results with intuitive, easy-to-use search templates. Link instantly to and from cross-referenced citations, footnotes, and indexes.

Retrieve all cases on point with BNA's exclusive classification system, long regarded as the industry standard. Classification numbers corresponding between USPQ and USPQ Second Series are listed in an Outline Conversion Table.

Determine quickly which rulings boost your arguments with headnotes prepared by BNA legal editors that summarize the facts and court's rationale for each point of law addressed, in every case.

Keep current with weekly updates on the latest decisions. Spot legal trends early on.

Find all USPQ cases published in other reporting services with a Parallel Citations Table.

Have at your fingertips the full text of all federal IP statutes and regulations. Statutes include Title 35 (Patents), Title 17 (Copyrights), Title 15 Chapter 22 (Trademarks), and Title 15 Chapter 63 (Technology Innovation) of the U.S. Code. Regulations include Volume 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, plus related provisions and policy pronouncements from other agencies — all fully indexed.

Gain insights on IP law with the comprehensive analysis and commentary provided in Patents and the Federal Circuit , a treatise by patent litigator Robert L. Harmon, available to Web subscribers (or in print, separately, from BNA Books).

Product Structure

Reference: analysis, guidance and primary source material

Decisions: full text judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda

Formats and Frequency

Print decisions U.S. Patents Quarterly® published weekly and indexed monthly, with Bound Volumes issued quarterly with Annual Digest and Index. Cumulative Digest Index every five years.

Web reference material is updated regularly, and offers an e-mail update service.

CD-ROM reference material is updated monthly.