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An Outline of Web Sites Useful for Intellectual Property Matters
These sites are not maintained by Bromberg and Sunstein, and we cannot warrant their accessibility or the accuracy of any information that they may provide. However, we will make every effort to eliminate outdated links and continue to provide links to sites that are of interest to our visitors. If you have any suggestions, please contact us at info@bromsun.com.
Governmental Resources - United States
| The White House |
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| United States Senate |
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| United States House of Representatives |
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| United States Patent and Trademark Office |
Can search U.S. patents and trademarks; legislative and administrative developments |
| United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress |
Includes downloadable forms and circulars in pdf format; legislative and administrative developments |
| Thomas (Legislative Information on the Internet) |
Search facility on the Library of Congress site for tracking federal legislation |
| The Federal Judiciary Homepage |
Links to Federal Courts |
| Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit |
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| U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). |
| Government Printing |
Links to many government information products including Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, U.S. Code |
| United States Food and Drug Administration |
Provides information about approved pharmaceuticals including patent information |
| Internal Revenue Service |
The Internal Revenue Service site contains IRS forms and publications as well as general tax news and help |
| Bureau of Industry and Security |
Home page of the Bureau of Industry and Security of the U.S. Department of Commerce (formerly the Bureau of Export Administration). This site includes news and links relating to the export of goods and services outside of the United States including the text of Bureau Regulations. |
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Governmental Resources - International
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Internet Domain Name Resources
| The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) |
Quasi-governmental organization in charge of assignment of domain names for the Internet; has dispute resolution procedure set forth here and results of decisions and related materials. |
| Register.com |
One of many registrars licensed by ICANN to register domain names; has a search engine for determining availability of domain names and for determining the owners of already registered domain names. |
| NetworkSolutions |
A domain name registration service; has a search engine for determining availability of domain names and for determining the owners of already registered domain names. |
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Intellectual Property Organizations
| American Intellectual Property Law Association |
A principal association dedicated to intellectual property law; has web pages devoted to legislative developments |
| International Trademark Association |
International association dedicated to trademark law; has useful links and development lists |
| American Bar Association |
The Intellectual Property Law section (under entities) maintains an active involvement in intellectual property law developments |
| Copyright Society of the United States of America |
A nonprofit corporation that was organized to foster interest in and advance the study of copyright law and the rights in literature, music, art the theatre, motion pictures, and other forms of intellectual property. |
| Boston Patent Law Association |
Association of intellectual property professionals, providing educational programs and a forum for the interchange of ideas and information concerning patent, trademark, and copyright laws. |
| Licensing Executives Society |
Web site of the principal organization for lawyers and managers engaged in technology licensing |
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Research Tools - Legal
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Research Tools - Patent and Prior Art Searching
| Delphion Intellectual Property Network |
Fee-based searching; U.S. Patents; applications and patents of European Patent Office and Japanese Patent Office; Patent Applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty; IBM Technical Disclosure Bulletins; patent family records from INPADOC database; full-text searching of U.S. patents; other patent documents searchable by English language abstract |
| US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) |
US patents, typically current to most recent issue date; full-text searching available. |
| esp@cenet |
Search applications and patents of European Patent Office and applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty in their original language; search worldwide patent documents with English title and abstract; search Japanese patent documents with English title and abstract |
| esp@cenet Information |
Further access to collections of member countries in European Patent Office |
| German Patent Office patent search facility |
Permits English language-operated search of patents, and permits identification of patent families |
| The Dialog Corporation |
A fee-based collection of databases for searching patents and prior art technology throughout the world; business and other fields are also covered |
| The NECI Scientific Literature Digital Library |
A less expensive alternative for finding relevant technical literature |
| NERAC |
A fee-based technology search service having access to a large collection of technical databases |
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Research Tools - Technology Information and Search Engines
| Britannica.com Inc. |
Portal web site of the Encyclopedia Britannica, including the full text of articles in the Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as links to relevant sites |
| Scirus |
A search engine provided by Elsevier Science that concentrates on scientific content, offering searches of both free and membership sources. |
| Webopedia.com |
A web-based encyclopedia of computer and Internet terms, with many relevant links |
| The Tech Law Journal |
An on-line publication that provides news, records, and analysis of legislation, litigation, and regulation affecting the computer and Internet industry |
| Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing |
A web-based dictionary of computing terms |
| Yahoo! Inc. |
Portal web site, organized by topic, and with excellent search engine, which uses Google engine for web site searching; the bottom of the first page of a web search permits accessing other search engines |
| Northern Light Technology Inc. |
Excellent search engine, which sorts results in to folders |
| Dogpile.com |
A meta-search engine, which accesses many other search engines on the World Wide Web |
| Google Groups |
A search engine directed to Usenet news groups and discussion groups, which contain a wide range of information (including much non-information) relevant to almost any conceivable topic; sometimes the only current source of certain technical information |
| Google.com |
One of the best general web-based search engines on the Internet |
| Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library |
Access, by search engine and by topic, to engineering resources on the Web |
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Sites of Local Interest
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