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General Intellectual Property Law Resources
American Bar Association (ABA)	www.abanet.org
American Intellectual Property Law (AIPLA)	www.aipla.org
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)	www.ipo.org
Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI)	www.aippi.org
U.S. International Trade Commission	www.usitc.gov
Licensing Executives Society (LES)	www.usa-canada.les.org
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC)	www.cafc.uscourts.gov
U.S. Patent Litigation Statistics	www.patstats.org
Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office	http://ipsearch.ipd.gov.hk/index.html
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks	www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/singapore/singapore_treaty.html
World Intellectual Property Association	http://www.wipo.int/portal/index.html.en

Patent Law Resources
Patent Law: An Overview	http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Patent
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)	http://www.uspto.gov
Google Patents	http://www.google.com/patents
Free Patents Search Tool	http://www.freepatentsonline.com/
Delphion Patent Research Site	http://www.delphion.com/
SIRCh: Chemical Patent Searching	http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/ca_cps.html
A FREE patent search tool	http://www.pat2pdf.org/
Edison's Patents	http://edison.rutgers.edu/patents.htm
Software Patent Institute (SPI)	http://www.spi.org/
Public Patent Foundation at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law	http://www.pubpat.org/
IFI CLAIMS® Patent Databases	http://www.ificlaims.com/
Peer To Patent	http://www.peertopatent.org/
Free Patents Crazy Patents	http://www.freepatentsonline.com/crazy.html
MIT Library Patents Guides	http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/patents/
Patent Commons Project	http://www.patentcommons.org/
Schreyer Business Library's Patent Search Tutorial	http://www.libraries.psu.edu/instruction/business/Patents/
Chinese Patent Office (SIPO)	http://www.sipo.gov.cn
European Patent Office (EPO)	http://www.epo.org
Japanese Patent Office (JPO)	http://www.jpo.go.jp
Taipei Patent Office (TIPO)	http://www.tipo.gov.tw
The Six Pieces of the Patent Idea Puzzle	http://www.sbinformation.about.com/od/patents/a/patentidea.htm
USPTO: How to Get a Patent	http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/howtopat.htm
Why Patent My Invention and Other Patent Information	http://www.morebusiness.com/running_your_business/marketing/d1007343402.brc
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property	http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/paris/trtdocs_wo020.html
Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights	http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_01_e.htm
WikiPatents Community	http://www.wikipatents.com/

Trademark Law Resources
United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)	http://www.uspto.gov
Cornell: Trademark law: an overview	http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Trademark
USPTO Trademark Law	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/tmlaw2.pdf
US Trademarks Basic Facts	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/tac/doc/basic/
International Trademark Law Treaty	http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/tlt/trtdocs_wo027.html
Trademark Electronic Business Center	http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
US Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual	http://tess2.uspto.gov/netahtml/tidm.html
USPTO Fees	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/fee2007february01.htm#tm
USPTO Design Search Code Manual	http://tess2.uspto.gov/tmdb/dscm/index.htm
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP) - 5th Edition	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#TM
Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR)	http://tarr.uspto.gov/
Trademark Related Forms	http://www.uspto.gov/web/forms/index.html#TM
Trademark Document Retrieval.	http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow
Canadian Trademark Law	http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.nsf/eng/Home?OpenDocument
Trademark Official Gazette	http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/tmog/
Changes To Requirements For Maintaining Trademark Registrations	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/tmlwtrty/postreg.htm
Canadian Trade-marks Database	http://www.ic.gc.ca/app/opic-cipo/trdmrks/srch/tmSrch.do?lang=eng
Guide To Implementation Of Madrid Protocol In The United States	http://www.uspto.gov/web/trademarks/madrid/madridguide.htm
U.S. Customs Intellectual Property Rights e-Recordation (IPRR) Application	https://apps.cbp.gov/e-recordations/
Madrid Trademark System	http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/fees/
European Communities Trademark Association	http://www.ecta.org/
European Organization for the Harmonization of the Internal Markets	http://www.oami.europa.eu/ows/rw/pages/CTM/legalReferences/legalReferences.en.do
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks	http://www.wipo.int/madrid/en/legal_texts/trtdocs_wo016.html
Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks	http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/classification/nice/trtdocs_wo019.html
Vienna Agreement Establishing an International Classification of the Figurative Elements of Marks	http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/classification/vienna/trtdocs_wo031.html
International Trademark Association (INTA)	http://www.inta.org
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure (TBMP)	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/ttab/tbmp/
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Inquiry System.	http://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/
Final Decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (TTAB)	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/foia/ttab/decsum/decsumm.htm
Trademark Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)	http://www.inta.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=219&getcontent=4
California Trademark Law	http://www.inta.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=71&Itemid=219&getcontent=4
New York Trademark Law	http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/miscfae.html
Texas Trademark Law	http://www.tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/BC/content/pdf/bc.002.00.000016.00.pdf
Texas Trademark Law	http://www.sos.state.tx.us/corp/trademark.shtml

Trade Secret Law Resources
What is a Trade Secret?	www.wipo.int/sme/en/ip_business/trade_secrets/trade_secrets.htm
Uniform Trade Secrets Act	www.nsi.org/Library/Espionage/usta.htm
U.S. Code TITLE 18 § 1831. Economic Espionage	www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1831.html

Design Patent Law Resources
Design Patents	http://www.bitlaw.com/patent/design.html
What Are Design Patents and When Are They Useful?	http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/matters/matters-9303.html
A Guide to Filing a Design Patent Application	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/design/index.html
US Design Patents - Classification and Popularity	http://www.freepatentsonline.com/design-patents.html
Design Patents: Sailing Through the PTO	http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/04/design-patents-sailing-through-the-pto.html
Elements of a Design Patent Application	http://www.smallbusiness.findlaw.com/patent/patent-types/design-patent-application.html
Design Patents Vs Other Types of Intellectual Property, Definition of Design	http://inventors.about.com/od/designpatents/a/design_patent.htm

Copyright Law Resources
United States Copyright Office	http://www.copyright.gov
Copyright: An Overview	http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Copyright
Copyrights Crash Course from UT System	http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm#top
The Copyright Website	http://www.benedict.com/
Search copyright information	http://www.copyright.gov/records/
Copyright Information Circulars and Factsheets	http://www.copyright.gov/circs/
Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright	http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#
U.S. Code TITLE 17—COPYRIGHTS	http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/
Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies	http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/
Copyright Royalty Board	http://www.loc.gov/crb/
Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure	http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/ipnii/
CHAPTER 9. Fair Use	http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
WIPO Study on Limitations and Exceptions of Copyright and Related Rights in the Digital Environment	http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/doc_details.jsp?doc_id=16805
American Civil Liberties Union	http://www.aclu.org/
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers	http://www.ascap.com/index.html
Associating of Information Technology Professionals	http://www.aitp.org/
Association for the Protection of Internet Copyright	http://www.a-w.org/
Broadcast Music Inc.	http://www.bmi.com/
Center for Democracy and Technology	http://www.cdt.org/
Computer and Communications Industry Association	http://www.ccianet.org/
Software Developers Forum	http://www.sdforum.org/
Software Publishers Association	http://www.spa.org/
Telecommunications Industry Association	http://www.tiaonline.org/

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