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Intellectual Property
BNA's Web Watch is prepared by Laura
Gordon-Murnane. Documents and Reports are arranged first by
federal government, state governments, international governments,
and nongovernment organizations. E-mail suggestions for future weekly
topics always welcome.
Federal Government
Patent
Full-Text Database
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office now offers access to separate
bibliographic and full-text patent databases, including full-page
images. These databases cover the period from 1 January 1976 to
the most recent weekly issue date (usually each Tuesday).
Bibliographic,
Abstract Database
Consists of the front pages of U.S. patents, including utility,
design, reissue, plant, and SIR.
Patent
Related Forms
Current list of patent-related forms, available in pdf format.
Trademark Search
U.S. Electronic Trademark Search System contains more than 3 million
pending, registered, and dead records.
Applications, Registrations
Trademark Applications
& Registrations Retrieval System (TARR) database can be
searched for information about pending and registered trademarks
obtained from the USPTO's internal database.
Design
Search Code
This code is a numerical classification index that codifies design
figurative elements into categories, the most general classification,
divisions, subsets of categories, and sections, subsets of divisions.
Trademark
Forms
Latest trademark forms available in pdf format.
Official
Gazette Notices
Available from 1995 to today. Includes text of regular and special
notices as well as consolidated listing of OG notices from 1964-2001,
a compilation of important notices and rule changes.
Trademark
Fees
Current listing of trademark processing fees.
Nongovernment Organizations
ABA
IPA Section
ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law provides access to current
IPL legislation for the 107th Congress, ABA committees, and contact
information, ABA meetings and calendar, publications, sites of interest,
and press releases.
AIPLA
American Intellectual Property Law Association is a voluntary professional
association of lawyers practicing in the areas of patent, trademark,
and copyright law. The site provides access to news, legislative
activities, publications, IP links, Amicus Briefs, and AIPLA publications.
Copyright Clearance
Center
This licenser of photocopy reproduction rights provides access to
current copyright news, press releases, seven searchable databases,
and a collection of copyright-related websites including international
copyright organizations.
Copyright
Society of the USA
Provides information on meetings and events, publications, newsletters,
links to government websites, links to organizations and associations,
statutory and legislative materials, and case law and courts.
IPOA
The Intellectual
Property Owners Association
Provides access to current IP daily news, federal circuit opinion
summaries, top patent owners from 1984-2000, law firm members, IPO
meetings and events, and congressional, judicial, and related documents.
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is responsible
for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment,
domain name system management, and root server system management
functions.
NCCUSA
National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (working
drafts site). In association with the University of Pennsylvania
Law School, the conference is making drafts of Uniform and Model
Acts available as WordPerfect/Word, Adobe PDF, and generic text.
World Intellectual
Property Organization
Site provides access to information on current issues, treaties,
guides, SCIT and Classifications, PCT, Madrid, and Hague Systems,
and WIPO's library database.
Arbitration
and Mediation Center
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center publishes its dispute decisions
on the Internet.
U.N. Commission
on International Trade Law
The commission makes available case law, conventions, model laws,
and other texts, ratifications, and enactments, preparatory documents,
links, and news.
ECTA
The European Communities Trade Mark Association deals with problems
in protection and use of trademarks and industrial designs in the
European Union.
INTA
The International Trademark Association is a not-for-profit worldwide
membership organization of trademark owners and advisers. Site includes
information on current issues, press releases, publications, upcoming
meetings, workshops, trademark basics, and tools.
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