Comprehensive Sites

• The Franklin Pierce Law Center Intellectual Property Mall
• Searchable Intellectual Property Databases - Kathy Biehl, author of Lawyer's Guide to the Internet

Patent Law

• Intellectual Property Basics
• Patent Bar exam links - Suffolk Law School
• IP Watchdog - Gene Quinn, Syracuse Univ. College of Law

Trademark

• Patent & Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Commerce - includes information on filing, forms, etc.
• Thomson & Thomson - Links to Intellectual Property sites & News

Copyright Law

• The Catalog of Copyright Entries 1950-1978 - renews copyrights from 1922-1950, via U. Penn.
• The Catalog of Copyright Entries 1978-present - U.S. Copyright Office
• When Works Pass into the Public Domain - helpful chart
• United States Copyright Office - The Library of Congress
• U.S. Code, Title 17 - Copyrights - Cornell University - all you wanted to know about TITLE 17
• Copyright Clearance Center Online - Allows users to open accounts to utilize copyrighted information
• Library of Congress
• The Copyright WebSite - Contains discourse on contemporary copyright issues
• GigaLaw.com Law Library: Copyright Cases - This is a list of links to cases on copyright, some pertaining to musical sound recordings.
• Stanford Copyright Links - Outstanding research source for all aspects of Copyright Law
• UCLA Copyright Center
• Duke Law Center for the Study of the Public Domain

Other Intellectual Property Issues

• American Bar Association - ABA section on intellectual property law
• WWW Multimedia Law - Up to date happenings in the field of multi-media law
• World Intellectual Property Organization - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland