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Finding Books

Library Catalogs

Suggested (Library of Congress) subject searches:

  • patent laws and legislation
  • patent laws and legislation -- United States
  • copyright
  • copyright -- law and legislation
  • copyright -- law and legislation -- United States
  • copyright --United States
  • trademarks
  • trademarks -- law and legislation
  • trademarks -- law and legislation -- United States
  • trademarks -- United States
  • intellectual property
  • intellectual property -- law and legislation -- United States

These subject headings are very broad. You may be able to narrow your search more effectively by keyword searching. If more relevant records are located in this manner, note the Library of Congress Subject Headings of relevant retrieved records. You may find more specific subject headings for further subject searching.

Bibliographies  

    • Searching the Law / Francis R. Doyle ... <et al.>. 2nd ed. Ardsley, N.Y. : Transnational Publishers, 1999.

See heading: patents, trademarks, and copyright

    • Specialized Legal Research / Penny A. Hazelton, general editor [Leah F. Chanin, previous general editor]; with contributions from Joseph James Beard ... <et al.> New York: Aspen Law & Business, [Previously Published: Boston: Little, Brown] 1987-. 

See chapters:

  • 4 / Copyright Law
  • 11 / Federal Patent and Trademark Law  

Finding Periodical Articles

Legal Periodical Indexes:

Current Law Index. Los Altos, CA: Information Access, 1980-. [v. 1-; Jan. 1980-; Monthly, with quarterly and annual cumulations.].

Index to Legal Periodicals. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1908-. [various title & publication changes; Monthly with annual cumulations.].

Current Index to Legal Periodicals.  Seattle, WA: University of Washington Law Library and Washington
law review, 1968-.

Scientific & Miscellaneous Periodical Indexes:

The following indexes are among the many available via MNCAT from University Libraries at:  http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/indexes.phtml

Academic Search Premier
[Coverage: Coverage varies, some starting with 1975 - present, updated continuously.]  The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.

AccessScience
The online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

Applied Science and Technology Abstracts
The online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms.

Biological Abstracts
[Coverage: 1980-2003.]  Biological Abstracts (part of BIOSIS Previews) is one of the foremost sources of bibliographic references to the life science journal literature.

BioMed Central
BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research

BIOSIS Previews
[Coverage: 1996 - present, updated monthly.]  Covers the biological and medical sciences, including biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, botany, environment, microbiology, and zoology. Provides citations and abstracts to articles, conference papers, technical reports and chapters of books from over 5000 publications.

CAB Abstracts
[Coverage: 1973 - present.]  CAB Abstracts covers agriculture in its broadest sense, including crop production, forestry, environment, animal health and nutrition, veterinary science, agricultural engineering, biotechnology, soil and water, agricultural economics, recreation and tourism, rural sociology, and human nutrition and health

CANCERLIT
[Coverage: 1983 - present, updated monthly.]  This international bibliographic database pertains to all aspects of cancer therapy, including experimental and clinical cancer therapy; chemical, viral and other cancer causing agents; mechanisms of carcinogenesis; biochemistry, immunology, and physiology of cancer; and mutagen and growth factor studies.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (U.S. GPO)
[Coverage: 1976 - present.]  Produced by the Government Printing Office, 1976 to the present, the Catalog of United States Government publications includes print and electronic Government information products created by Federal agencies and is updated daily.

Chemical Abstracts (vis SciFinder Scholar)
[Coverage: 1907 - present.]  SciFinder provides access to CAS databases (Chemical Abstracts and more) via a desktop client/server application for Mac and Windows.

CHEMnetBASE
[Coverage: Varies.]  CHEMnetBASE is a reference source for locating chemical facts, properties, literature references, and for performing structure searching.

CHID (Combined Health Information Database)
Includes information from 16 different databases created by agencies of the US Federal Government.

CINAHL
[Coverage: 1982 - present, updated monthly.]  CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, has a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected standards of professional practice.

Compendex/Engineering Index
[Coverage: 1884 - present, updated monthly.]  Provides extensive indexing of scholarly and technical periodicals, conference proceedings, and report literature in all engineering disciplines including applied physics, electronics, materials science, and related fields in science and management.

Computing Reviews
[Coverage: 1974 - Present.]  Computing Reviews selectively reviews articles, books, and proceedings to the current research, theory and applications in computer science and related fields.

Current Protocols
Series of standard, authoritative guides to research laboratory methods in the life sciences; the U of M subscribes to 9 Current Protocols titles: Bioinformatics, Cell Biology, Human Genetics, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Protein Science, and Toxicology.

Dekker Encyclopedias
Online access to:Encyclopedia of Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering; Encyclopedia of Dietary Supplements; Encyclopedia of Pest Management; Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science; Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science; Encyclopedia of Soil Science; Encyclopedia of Water Science; Quality Engineering.  Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.

Department of Energy "DOE Information Bridge)
[Coverage: 1996 - present.]  DOE Information Bridge provides free, convenient, and quick access to full-text DOE research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

Digital Dissertations
[Coverage: 1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations); 1962 - present (Masters theses).]  Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities.

Dynamic Mechanical Analysis for Plastics Engineering
Describes uses of DMA & gives data for 120 thermoplastics families.

E-Texts for Health Sciences
Links to electronic versions of medical textbooks.

EDP Sciences
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty Please note we do not have a subscription to every e-journal provided by this vendor.

Effect of Creep and Other Time Related Factors on Plastics
A 2-volume set showing effects of creep and time on over 60 generic families of thermoplastics, elastomers, alloys and others.

Effect of Sterilization Methods on Plastics and Elastomers
Summarizes the topic, & gives data about effects of gamma, electron beam, & beta radiation; steam autoclave; ethylene oxide; chemical disinfectants; & dry heat sterilization, and the physical changes accompanying the above.

Effect of Temperature and Other Factors on Plastics
A 2-volume set about plastics under varying operating conditions at a range of temperatures.

Electronic Journals: Science and Engineering
NOTE: Remote full-text access to many of these electronic journals is restricted to students, staff and faculty at the University of Minnesota.

Elsevier – Brain Research Interactive
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.

Elsevier Science Direct
[Coverage 1998-present for most titles.]Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics
The Online Encyclopaedia of Mathematics is an up-to-date, comprehensive, graduate-level reference work.

Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology (Kirk-Othmer)
One of the most comprehensive and well-known encyclopedias in the field of chemical technology; it also contains a great deal of basic chemistry.

Encyclopedia of Chromatography
Includes more than 400 articles on a variety of chromatographic techniques.

Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry
This updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Inorganic Chemistry covers the following areas of inorganic chemistry: Main Group Elements; Transition Metals and Coordination Chemistry; Organometallic Chemistry; Bioinorganic Chemistry; Solid State, Materials, Nanomaterials and Catalysis; and General Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Methods.

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS)
An integrated compendium of sixteen encyclopedias, produced by UNESCO, that "presents authoritative, comprehensive, and integrated approaches to the science, technology, and management of natural and human resources necessary for life support".

Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences
[Coverage: 1982-89.]  The Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences provides information on statistical theory and the applications of statistical methods in various scientific fields.

Energy Citations Database
[Coverage: 1948-.]  Energy Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

ENGnetBASE
[Coverage: Varies.]  ENGnetBASE is a reference source for locating engineering information, including data, formulas, graphs, and tables.

ENVIROnetBASE
Collection of environmental science handbooks published by CRC Press.

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Database
[Coverage: 1967 - present.]  This database provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary coverage of the environmental sciences.

Epocrates Rx Clinical Drug Database
Peer-reviewed drug information including off-label indications and formularies in an easy to use format.

Essential Science Indicators
[Coverage: Dates vary.]  This analytical tool offers data for ranking scientists, institutions, countries, and journals.

Evidence Based Medicine Reviews
Evidence base medicine reviews provides content from two databases: Cochrane database of systematic reviews, published by Update Software for the Cochrane Collaboration, and Best evidence, a database containing all the articles from ACP journal club (a publication of the American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine) and the articles from Evidence-based medicine (a joint publication of the ACP and British Medical Journal Group).

Fish & Fisheries Worldwide
[Coverage: 1971 - present, updated quarterly.]  A working biologist's index to all aspects of ichthyology, fisheries and aquaculture, including fish management, natural history, and fish health, plus environmental, habitat, and commercial information.

Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA)
[Coverage: 1969 - present.]  Search here to find citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference papers, technical reports and international patents in food processing, storage, and safety, food additives, food chemistry and properties.

ForestScience.info
[Coverage: 1939 - present.]  ForestScience.Info (formerly TreeCD) is an online abstracting and indexing database of records describing the research literature of forest science, wood science, and related topics.

GenBank
GenBank is the National Institutes of Health genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.

Geobase
[Coverage: 1980 - present, updated monthly.]  Index to worldwide literature on geology, geography, and ecology.

Geological Society of America
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.

GeoRef
[Coverage: 1785 - present.]  Index to the worldwide literature of geology, geophysics, geochemistry, paleontology, hydrogeology , hydrology, and mineralogy.

Harrison’s Online|
Consists of the latest edition of the basic text of Harrison's principles of internal medicine, sections on clinical trials, updates (and their related references, including abstracts) related to the text and an online pretests section.

Hawley’s Condensed Chemical Dictionary
Gives technical and descriptive data for common substances and phenomena.

Health and Medicine in the News
[Coverage: May 1994 - present.]  Lists citations to health-related articles reported in the Star Tribune - Newspaper of the Twin Cities [Minneapolis Edition].

History of Science and Technology (web)
[HST: 1976-to date.]  Includes articles about the history of science in all historical periods.

History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
[Coverage: Science, 1976 - present; Technology, 1987 - present; updated annually.]  Indexes articles, books, proceedings, reviews, and dissertations on the history of science and technology.

HubMed
Alternative interface to the MEDLINE/PubMed health and biological sciences database.

IBIDS – International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements
[Coverage: 1986 - present.]  IBIDS contains bibliographic records, including abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements from the Office of Dietary Supplements at the NIH.

images.MD
[Coverage: Varies.]  images.MD compiles over 48,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine's series of illustrated atlases.

Ingenta
This index provides bibliographic citations derived from tables of contents pages of over 26,000 journals.  Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.

IngentaConnect
[Coverage: October 1988 - present, updated daily.]  Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.  This index provides bibliographic citations for academic and professional research articles online - some 20 million articles from 30,000 publications.

INSPEC
[Coverage: 1896 - present, updated monthly.]  Provides comprehensive coverage of scholarly literature in the fields of physics and astrophysics, electrical engineering, electronics, computing and control, and information technology.

International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
[Coverage: 1970 - present, updated monthly.]  Provides information on all phases of the development and use of drugs and on professional pharmaceutical practice. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 3 users at any one time.

International Union of Crytallography
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.

IOP (Institute of Physics)
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.

ISI Web of Knowledge
The ISI Web of Knowledge provides the Web of Science interface for institutional sitewide access to the ISI Citation products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts and humanities.

Johns Hopkins POC-IT Antibiotic (ABX) Guide
The Antibiotic Guide is a decision support tool intended to provide clinicians with concise, digested, timely information about the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.

Journal of Applied Statistics
[Coverage: 1995 - present online. 1985 - present in paper copy in Mathematics Library (310 Vincent Hall).]

Journals<at>Ovid
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff, and faculty.  The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 3 users at any one time.

JSTOR
Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Knovel
Engineering handbooks and monographs.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Provides the full text of significant conference proceedings in the field.

Lecture Notes in Physics
This series contains lectures and tutorial reviews based on original research material from all fields of physics and astronomy.

MATHnetBASE
MATHnetBASE provides full text access to many mathematics reference sources published by CRC Press.

MathSciNet
[Coverage: Mathematical Reviews(MR): 1940 - present, updated monthly; Current Mathematical Publications (CMP): 1985 - present, updated daily.]  A comprehensive index, with abstracts, to the research literature of mathematics.

MD Consult
Full text access to selected medical texts, medical journals, practice guidelines, drug information, patient handouts, and CME materials. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 7 users at any one time.

MEDLINE (Ovid)
[Coverage: 1966 - present, updated weekly.]  MEDLINE covers the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time.

MedlinePlus
[Coverage: updated daily.]  MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 590 diseases and conditions.

Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals
Classic reference source for chemists; contains over 10,000 entries on drugs and pharmaceuticals, common organic chemicals and laboratory reagents.

MICROMEDEX
Provides access to drug information resources, including DRUGDEX; POISINDEX; Martindale, the Extra Pharmacopoeia; Index Nominum; and Physician's Desk Reference.

NANOnetBASE
Online, full-text handbooks covering topics in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

NASA Technical Report Server
[Coverage: NASA: 1962 - present, updated monthly; NACA: 1915 - 1960.]
Provides citation with abstracts mostly to technical reports relating to aerospace research.

National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCAM)
[Coverage: 1963 - present.]  Division of the NIH concerned with alternative medicine.

Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database
This database contains authoritative, current information on herbal medicines and supplements, including safety, effectiveness, known constituents, and possible interactions with other substances.

Nature
Includes Nature weekly, as well as EMBO and the "Academic and Society" and "Research and Reviews" titles.

Nature Biotechnology Directory
Global information resource listing over 8,000 organizations, product and service providers in the biotechnology industry.

Nature Protocols
Nature Protocols is an online resource for experimental protocols, primarily in biology and chemistry, including authoritative, peer-reviewed 'Nature Protocols' and an interactive 'Protocols Network'.

NTIS National Technical Information Service
[Coverage: 1964 - present.]  NTIS indexes government-sponsored U.S. and worldwide scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related publications with over 2.0 million bibliographic records since 1964. Contents include research reports, computer products, software, video and audio. See the NTIS Website for an overview of subject coverage and document delivery services.

Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
[Coverage: 1975 - present.]  Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.

Oceanic Abstracts
[Coverage: 1981 - current.]  Abstracts of technical literature pertaining to the marine and brackish-water environment.

Official Methods of Analysis of the AOAC International
Chemical and microbiological analytical methods validated by the AOAC Official Methods Program.

Ornithological Worldwide Literature
[Coverage: 1983 - present.]  OWL is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.

PAPERCHEM
[Coverage: 1967 - present, updated quarterly.]  Indexes publications relating to pulp, paper and allied technologies.

Patents (United States)
[Coverage: 1790 - present, updated weekly.]  The USPTO Web Patent Database offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date. Publisher/Producer is the U.S.

Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook
A handy collection of data, units, equations and topic reviews for chemical engineers.

PestBank
[Coverage: Current information; updated quarterly.]  The PEST-BANK Pesticide Product Data file describes specific pesticide products in detail.

Plant Information Online
[Coverage: 1982 - present, updated daily.]  Includes current sources in North American nurseries for over 70,000 plants; over 200,000citations to current plant science literature, listings for more than 1300 North American seed and nursery firms, and an evaluative review of 75 CD-ROMs and web sites of plant images.  Note: Non-University users can obtain access for a fee.

Pollution Abstracts
[Coverage: May 1981- present.]  Citations and abstracts for articles, conference papers and technical reports on air, water and soil pollution, pollution control, and hazardous waste disposal.

Polymers: A Property Database
A user-friendly interface gives access to names, physical property data, supplier information, structures, applications, & manufacturing process.

Prokaryotes, The
A reference work on the biology of bacteria.

PubMed – Public Version
[Coverage: 1950 to present.]  Primary source of journal citations for the health sciences - the public version provides only limited full text access to journal articles.

PubMed – U of M Students, Staff & Faculty
[Coverage: 1950 to present.]  Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries.

Royal Society of Chemistry Journals
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.  Articles published from 1841 to 1996 are available at the RSC Journals Archive.

Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
[Coverage: 1992 - present.]  Published by INION, the Institute for Scholarly Information in the Social Sciences, the RAS Bibliography covers materials in the humanities and social sciences published in the Commonwealth of Independent States, in Eastern European countries, Western Europe, and North America.

SAE Digital Library
Provides full-text of SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) technical papers and SAE Special Publications (SP's) from 1998 to present.

Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI)
[Coverage: 1994 - present, updated weekly.]  Covers the sciences, including agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, chemistry, computer science, materials science, mathematics, medicine, neuroscience, oncology, pediatrics, pharmacology, physics, plant sciences, psychiatry, surgery, veterinary science, and zoology.

Science of Synthesis
Science of Synthesis is an electronic version of the reference work by the same name; it also provides access to Houben-Weyl (Methods of Organic Chemistry) which includes references back to 1835.

ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Search the abstracts or titles of 1800 scientific and social science journals from Elsevier Science.

SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty.

TOXLINE
[Coverage: 1965-present.]  TOXLINE includes citations to journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, and meeting abstracts, papers and reports on Toxicological, pharmacological, biochemical and physiological effects of drugs and other chemicals.

TOXNET
Online collection of toxicology-related databases including HSDB (Hazardous Substances Data Bank), IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System), TOXLINE, and several others.

Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
"The worlds's largest technical encyclopedia," this is also a very trusted source of information on a wide variety of fields that involve chemistry.

USPTO Web Patent Databases
[Coverage: 1790 - present, updated weekly.]  This database from the the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers the full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976 and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790 through the most recent weekly issue date.

VET CD
[Coverage: 1989-present; 1973-present.]  VetCD and BeastCD have been renamed AnimalScience.com.

Water Resources Abstracts
[Coverage: 1967-present.]  Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

Web of Science (ISI)
[Coverage: 1994-date (sciences) 1975-date (arts & humanities).]  Web of Science is the Web interface for the ISI Citation Index products which cover over 8,000 international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Wiley Database of Polymer Properties
Based on the 'Polymer Handbook, an essential reference in polymer science, this database is updated quarterly.

Wiley Interscience
Full text collection to 1,000 journals, major reference works, online books from John Wiley, a publisher of scientific and social science literature.

Zoological Record
[Coverage: online 1978 - present, updated monthly. Printed version 1864-present, published annually.]  The premiere index for the zoological sciences, this is a comprehensive index to the world's zoological literature from approximately 6000 journals.


Finding Government Information

CIS Index to Publications of the United States Congress.   Washington, LexisNexis,  1970-.  [Monthly, the Index part cumulating quarterly.].  Related CIS indexes to (other) congressional information sources are located in the microforms area and are also included in LexisNexis Congressional (http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/cong.cgi).  Most documents located using CIS indexes and other CIS products are available at this location on CIS microfiche.

Major Studies and Issue Briefs of the Congressional Research Service.  Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, 1978-.  [Annual.].  Documents available on microfilm reels with indexes and hardcopy guide also available at same call number.

LOCATION: UM/LAW Microforms Room /  Mfilm JK1108 .M34

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP).  Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005-. Updated daily.  Use CGP to find electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.  The CGP will grow to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s.  It is the online counterpart of the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, which dates from the passage of the Printing Act of 1895. At present the Monthly Catalog should be consulted for pre-1976 indexing.

Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications / issued by the Superintendent of Documents.  Washington, DC:  GPO, 1895-.   [no. 1- Jan. 1895-;  Monthly, with semiannual and annual indexes.].   Catalog of all items published by GPO.

  • LOCATION: UM/LAW US Documents GP3.8:
  • On Westlaw: GPO-CTLG (DIALOG File)
  • On CD-ROM: UM/LAW Reference Office US- GP3.8/7: (1996-).

U.S. Government Periodicals Index (CD-ROM).   Bethesda, MD: CIS, 1994- [Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct.-Dec. 1993)-;  Quarterly.].

LOCATION: WILSON Government Publications Library CD-ROM Z1223 .Z7 U5227
From the U of M Libraries:  www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/lngp.cgi 


Copyright

Looseleaf Services

Copyright Law Reporter / Commerce Clearing House editorial staff.  Chicago: CCH, 1978-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services KF 2991.5 .C64

Copyright Laws and Treaties of the World / compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, with the cooperation of the U.S. Copyright Office and the Industrial Property Dept. of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.  Paris, United Nations Eduational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, 1956-.   LOCATION:  UM/LAW K 1419.2 1956x

Digest of Commercial Laws of the World. Digest of Intellectual Property Laws of the World / <edited> by Lester Nelson.  Dobbs Ferry, NY: Oceana, 1990-1998.  LOCATION:   UM/LAW K 1401 .A49 D54x 1990

Intellectual Property: Eastern Europe & Commonwealth of Independent States / compiled and edited by David L. Garrison.  New York: Oceana Publications, 1995-.  LOCATION: UM/LAW K 1401 .I556

International Copyright Law and Practice / Melville B. Nimmer and Paul Edward Geller, editors.  New York:  Matthew Bender, 1988-.  LOCATION: UM/LAW K1420.5 .I58x 1988

Forms and agreements on intellectual property and international licensing / by Leslie William Melville.  3rd ed., rev.  New York: Clark Boardman; London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1989-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KD 1269 .M45x 1989

The United States Patents Quarterly.   Washington, DC: Associated Industry Publications, 1929-.  [Vol. 1 (<Mar. 4-June 1, 1929>)-v.231 (Oct.-Dec. 1986); ser. 2, v. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1987)-; Quarterly.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2975 .A2 U54

Media Law Reporter.  Washington, DC: BNA, 1976-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services KF 4774 .A6 B87

Major Treatises

Abrams, Howard B.  The Law of Copyright [2003 ed.].  Eagan, MN: Thompson/West, 2003-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2994 .A722.

Beier, Friedrich-Karl, Gerhard Schricker and Wolfgang Fikentsccher.  German Industrial Property, Copyright and Antitrust Laws: Legal Texts with Introduction.  3rd rev. and enl. ed.  Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany; New York, NY, USA:  VCH, 1996.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KK 2636 .A25 1996

Goldstein, Paul.  Goldstein on Copyright.  3rd ed.   New York, NY: Aspen, 2005-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2994 .G6522.

Gorman, Robert A.  Copyright Law.   Washington, DC:  Federal Judicial Center: GPO,  1991.  LOCATION:   UM/LAW  /  US Documents  /  Ju13.2: L41.

Henn, Harry G.  Henn on Copyright Law: A Practitioner's Guide.  3rd ed.  New York: PLI, 1991.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2994 .H44x 1991. 

Leaffer, Marshall A., editor. International treaties on intellectual property. 2nd ed.  Washington, DC: BNA, 1997.   LOCATION: UM/LAW K 1401 .A35 I57 1997

Nimmer, Melville B.  Nimmer on Copyright; A Treatise on the Law of Literary, Musical and Artistic Property, and the Protection of Ideas.   New York: Matthew Bender, 1963-.  LOCATION:   UM/LAW KF 2991.5 .N5 (On Reserve)

Patry, William F.  Copyright Law and Practice.   Washington, DC: BNA, 1994-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2994 .P35 1994.

Sinacore-Guinn, David.  Collective Administration of Copyrights and Neighboring Rights: International Practices, Procedures, and Organizations.   Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.  LOCATION: UM/LAW K 1420.5 .S57 1993 (Missing/hoping for return).

Periodicals (selective list of those currently received)

AIPLA Bulletin. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property Law Association, 1984-. [Jan./Feb. 1984-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A184  /   LIBRARY HAS: 1984-.

AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property law Association, 1984-. [Vol. 12, no. 1 (1984)-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A185  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.12- (1984-).

Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996-.  [11:1 (1996)-;  Two no. a year;   Continues: High Technology Law Journal.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .B468  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.11- (1996-) / Also at: http://www.btlj.boalt.org/

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.   Washington, DC: BNA, 1970-.  [Began with no. 7 (Dec. 17, 1970);  Weekly, except Thursday following July 4 and last Thursday in Dec., 1974-;  Continues: Patent, trademark & copyright journal.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services   /  KF 3093.4 .B22x  /  UMLL holdings:  v.33- (1987-)

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal.   New York: Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1982-.  [Vol. 1, (spring, 1982)-].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .C272  /    LIBRARY HAS: v.1- (1982-) / Also at:  http://www.cardozoaelj.net/

Columbia-VLA Journal of Law & the Arts.   New York, NY: Columbia University School of Law and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1986-.  [Vol. 10, no. 1 (autumn 1985)-vol. 24, no. 4 (summer 2001);   Quarterly;  Continues: Art & the law.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .C6453  /   LIBRARY HAS: v.10-24 (1985-2001).

The Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.  New York, NY: Columbia School of Law, 2001-. [Vol. 25, no. 1- (fall 2001-); Quarterly; Continues Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals / Per .C6453 / LIBRARY HAS: v.25- (2001-) / CJLA is also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Communications and the Law.  New York, NY:  Earl M. Coleman Enterprises,  1979-2003.  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /   Per .C6475  /   LIBRARY HAS: v.1-v.25 (1979-2003) / C&L is also available electronically via the U of M Libraries.

The Computer Lawyer.  New York, NY: Law & Business Inc., 1984-2000.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 1984)-vol. 17, no. 8 (Aug. 2000);  Monthly.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 390.5 .C6 A133  /  UMLL holdings:  1992-2000.

The Copyright Law Journal: An Analysis of Current Cases and Developments Affecting Intellectual Property Rights.  San Francisco, CA: The Copyright Law Journal, 1984-.  [Began with vol. 1, no. 1 (July 1984);   Ten per year.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .C6635 /   UMLL holdings:  v.3-v.4:no.7 (1986/1987-1987/1988), v.4:no.9-v.7 (1987/1988-1992/1993)  Not currently received.

Copyright Law Symposium / the Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition.  New York, NY: American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers, 1939-.  [1st annual-;  Irregular.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .C664  /  UMLL holdings:  1st (1939)-4th (1952);  no.5 (1954)-no.41 (1992/1993).

Federal Communications Law Journal.  Los Angeles, CA:  UCLA School of Law and the Federal Communications Bar Association, <v.30- Winter 1977->.  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .F435   /  LIBRARY HAS: v.30- (1977-) / Also at: http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/volsplash.shtml (1993-).

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal.  New York, NY: Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, <1993->.  [Vol. 4, no. 1 (summer 1993)-,  Two per year;  Vol. 14, no. 1 (autumn 2003)-, Quarterly; Continues:  Fordham Entertainment, Media & Intellectual Property Law Forum.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .F67286  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.4- (1993/1994-) / Also available electronically via HeinOnline, v. 1 (1990/1991-). 

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.   Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School, 1988-.  [Vol. 1 (Spring 1988)-;   Annual.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .H3553    LIBRARY HAS: v.1- (1988-) / HJLT is also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent).  San Francisco,CA: University of California, Hastings College of the Law, <1990->.  [Vol. 13, no. 1 (fall 1990)-;  Quarterly;   Continues: Comm/Ent.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /   Per .H3798  / LIBRARY HAS: v.13- (1990/91-) / Comm/Ent also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Idea.  Washington, DC: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute of the George Washington University, 1964-.  [Vol. 8, no. 2 (summer 1964)-;  Quarterly, 1975-;  Continues: Patent, trade-mark, and copyright journal of research and education.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .I29  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.10- (1966-).

The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law.   Rolling Hills Estates, CA: Center for Computer/Law;  Chicago, IL: John Marshall Law School, 1993-.  [Vol. 12, no. 3 (Oct. 1993)-;  Four per year.].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J635  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.12- (1994-) / JMJCIL is also available electronically via U of M Libraries (1994-).

The Journal of Arts Management and Law.   Washington, DC: Helen Dwight Reid Educational Foundation,
l982-1992.  [Vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring 1982)-vol. 21, no.4 (Winter 1992);  Four issues yearly;  Continues: Performing Arts Review;  Continued by: Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /   Per .J684  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.12 (1982)-v.21 (1992).

Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society.   Washington, DC: Heldref Publications, 1992-.  [Vol. 22, no. 1 (Spring 1992)-;   Quarterly;  Continues: Journal of Arts Management and Law.].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J6845  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.22-33 (1992-2003).

Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.   New York, NY: Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 1981-.  [Vol. 29, no. 1 (Oct. 1981)-;  Bimonthly.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J7775  /  UMLL holdings:  v.29- (1981-)

Loyola Entertainment Law Journal.  Los Angeles, CA: Loyola Law School, 1981-.  [Vol. 2 (1982)-;  Continues: Entertainment law journal (Loyola of Los Angeles School of Law).].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .L685  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.1-v.11 (1981-1991) / LELJ is also available electronically via HeinOnline and U of M Libraries.

Minnesota Intellectual Property Review.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Law School, 2000-2004.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (2000)-v. 5, no. 2 (2004);  Continued by Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology (see below)].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals / Per .M583 / LIBRARY HAS: v.1, no.1-v.5, no. 2 / Also available at: http://mipr.umn.edu/

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Law School [Vol 6, no. 1 (Dec. 2004)-; Continues Minnesota Intellectual Property Review.]  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals / Per .M583 / LIBRARY HAS: v.6- (2004-) / MJLST is also available electronically via U of M Libraries (2004-). 

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal.   Newark, NJ: Rutgers Law School, 1981-.  [Vol. 8, no. 2 (1981)-].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .R873  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.8- (1981-) RCTLJ is also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal.   Santa Clara, CA: University of Santa Clara, School of Law, 1985-.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1985)-;  Two per year.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /   Per .S2637  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.1- (1985)- / SCCHTLJ is also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review.   Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Entertainment & Sports Law Review, 1989-.   [Vol. 6, nos. 1 & 2 (spring 1989)-;  Two issues yearly;  Continues: Entertainment & sports law journal.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /   Per .U5725  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.6-14  (1989-1996/1997).

Electronic Sources:

LexisNexis

COPYRT identifies the Copyright Law Library in Lexis and contains primarily federal copyright case law and legislation.  A variety of included intellectual property publications are intellectual property law review articles, Mealey's Intellectual Property Law Publications, and Nimmer on Copyright.  Also within COPYRT are major intellectual property periodicals, legislative history materials, and relevant international trade materials.

Westlaw

Westlaw includes a wide variety of both primary and secondary materials on copyright.  "Drill down" through the online directory via the following path: "All Databases" -> "Topical Materials By Area of Practice" -> "Intellectual Property".

WWW

Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite  /  http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/

The contents of this online research guide include:   Current Awareness, Reference, Organizations, Initiatives & Projects, Articles, Papers & Reports, Laws, Policies & Court Opinions.

CataLaw:  Copyright Law  /  http://www.catalaw.com/topics/IP.shtml

Cornell's Legal Information Institute:  Copyright  /  http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html

Contains links to federal primary materials, to international materials, and to a host of Internet sites.

Crash Course in Copyright is presented by lawyers for the University of Texas  /  http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm

EBLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations)  /  http://www.eblida.org/

EBLIDA is an independent non-governmental and non-commercial umbrella association of national library, information, documentation and archive associations and institutions in Europe. Subjects on which EBLIDA concentrates are copyright, culture, telematics, Central and Eastern Europe, information society related matters and information technology.

FindLaw: Legal Subject Index: Intellectual Property: Copyright  /   Stanford University Copyright & Fair Use Site  /  http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/01copyright/index.html

Contents:  Laws and Government Documents;  FindLaw Library - documents, briefs, articles & books;  Journals, Newsletters and Articles;   Mailing Lists and Usenet Groups;  Message Board;  Government Agencies;   Outlines;  Software;  Intellectual Property Legal News;  and FindLaw Firms Online - Intellectual Property.

Hieros Gamos.  The Comprehensive Law & Government Portal. / http://www.hg.org/intell.html  

Hot Property  /  http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/intelprop/hp.html

Hot Property is a comprehensive WWW resource for intellectual property and copyright law as it applies to electronic media. 

 

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Committee on Copyright and Legal Matters  /  http://www.ifla.org/III/clm/copyr.htm

United States.  Library of Congress.  Copyright Office.  /   http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/

The Copyright Office is part of a long tradition of promoting the progress of the arts and protection for the works of authors.  The home page has been created to serve the copyright community of creators and users, as well as the general public. Here you will find all Copyright Office key publications, including informational circulars; application forms for copyright registration; links to the copyright law and to the home pages of other copyright-related organizations; news of what the Office is doing, including Congressional testimony and press releases; the latest regulations; a link to online copyright records cataloged since 1978; and much more.

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  /  http://www.wipo.org/

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.  It is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.  WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property which comprises two main branches:

industrial property, chiefly in inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and appellations of origin; and copyright, chiefly in literary, musical, artistic, photographic and audiovisual works.

A substantial part of the activities and the resources of WIPO is devoted to development cooperation with developing countries.  The number of States members of WIPO was over 170 in August, 1998 (see the ratification
situtation of the WIPO Convention for the exact figure.) In addition, six States were party to treaties administered by WIPO but had not yet become members of WIPO.

Yale LIBLICENSE  /  Licensing Digital Information  /  http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/index.shtml

... providing librarians with a better understanding of the issues raised by licensing agreements in the digital age.


Patents

Looseleaf Services

Baxter, J. W.  World Patent Law and Practice.    London: Sweet & Maxwell; New York: Matthew Bender, 1968-.  LOCATION:   UM/LAW  /  K 1504.15 .W67x

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.   Washington, DC: BNA, 1970-.  [Began with no. 7 (Dec. 17, 1970);  Weekly, except Thursday following July 4 and last Thursday in Dec., 1974-;  Continues: Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services  /  KF 3093.4 .B22x  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.33-  (1987- ) / Also on Westlaw in BNA-PTCJ (database).

Chisum, Donald S.  Chisum on Patents: A Treatise on the Law of Patentability, Validity and Infringement.  New York: Matthew Bender, 1978-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  KF 3114 .C47  /    Shelved in Reserve / Also on Lexis in (library) 2NDARY / (file) CHISUM.

Mills III, John Gladstone, Donald Cross Reiley III, Robert Clare Highley.  Patent Law Fundamentals.  2d ed., 2004 revision;  Eagan, MN: Thomson/West, 2004-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW   /  KF 3114 .R653x 1980 / Also on Westlaw in PATLAWF (database). 

The United States Patents Quarterly.   Washington, DC:  Associated Industry Publications, 1929-.  [Currently published by BNA;  Vol. 1 (<Mar. 4-June 1, 1929>)-v.231 (Oct.-Dec. 1986); ser. 2, v. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1987)-;  Quarterly.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2975 .A2 U54   /  LIBRARY HAS: v.1-231 (1929-1986);  2d:v.1-50 (1987-1999) / Also on Lexis in BNA (library) / USPQ (file), 1934-.

Major Treatises

Chisum, Donald S. and Michael A. Jacobs.  Understanding Intellectual Property Law.  New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1992.   LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 2979 .C45x 1992.

Hildreth, Ronald B.  Patent Law: a Practitioner's Guide.   3rd ed.  New York, NY: Practising Law Institute, 1998-.  LOCATION:   UM/LAW  /  KF 3114 .H552x / Also on Westlaw in PLIREF-PATPRAC (database) and on Lexis in PATENT (library) / PLIPAT (file). 

Lipscomb, Ernest Bainbridge.  Lipscomb's Walker on Patents.  3rd ed.  Rochester, NY: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co.; San Francisco, CA:  Bancroft-Whitney, 1984-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW / KF 3114 .W177 1984

Miller, Christopher J. and Allen D. Choka.  Nichols Cyclopedia of Legal Forms Annotated, Vol 7A.  New York: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1989-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW / REF / KF 170 .N5 / Also available on Westlaw in NICHOLS-LF (database).

Schneider, Jerold.  Patent, Trademarks and Copyrights (v.25, West's Legal Forms).  St. Paul, MN: West, 1986-.   LOCATION:  UM/LAW / REF / KF 1384 .A65 .W47

Periodicals

AIPLA Bulletin. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property Law Association, 1984-. [Jan./Feb. 1984-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A184 / LIBRARY HAS: 1984-

AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property law Association, 1984-. [Vol. 12, no. 1 (1984)-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A185 / LIBRARY HAS: v.12- (1984-)

Berkeley Technology Law Journal.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996-.  [11:1 (1996)-;  Two no. a year;   Continues: High technology law journal.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .B468  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.11- (1996-) / Also at: http://www.btlj.boalt.org/

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.   Washington, DC: BNA, 1970-.  [Began with no. 7 (Dec. 17, 1970);  Weekly, except Thursday following July 4 and last Thursday in Dec., 1974-;  Continues: Patent, trademark & copyright journal.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services / KF 3093.4 .B22x / UMLL holdings: v.33- (1987-) / Also on Westlaw in BNA-PTCJ (database).

The Computer Lawyer.  New York, NY: Law & Business Inc., 1984-.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (Feb. 1984) - Vol.17, no. 8 (Aug. 2000); Monthly.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW KF 390.5 .C6 A133  /  UMLL holdings:  1992-2000.

Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.   Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School, 1988-.  [Vol. 1 (Spring 1988)-;   Annual.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .H3553    LIBRARY HAS: v.1- (1988-) / Also available on Westlaw in HVJLT (database) / HJLT also available via U of M Libraries.

Idea.  Washington, DC: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute of the George Washington University, 1964-.  [Vol. 8, no. 2 (summer 1964)-;  Quarterly, 1975-;  Continues: Patent, trade-mark, and copyright journal of research and education.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .I29  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.10- (1966-).

Intellectual Property Law Review.  New York, Clark Boardman Co.,  v.10- 1978-.  [Continues: Patent law review.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .I525  /    LIBRARY HAS: v.10 (1978)-v.18 (1986)  Incomplete, Library suspended subscription.

The John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law.   Rolling Hills Estates, CA: Center for Computer/Law;  Chicago, IL: John Marshall Law School, 1993-.  [Vol. 12, no. 3 (Oct. 1993)-;  Four per year.].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J635  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.12- (1994-) / JMJCIL is also available electronically via U of M Libraries (1994-).

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.   Arlington, VA: The Society, 1985-.  [Vol. 67, no. 1 (Jan. 1985)-;   Monthly;  Continues: Journal of the Patent Office Society.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J7823  /    LIBRARY HAS: v.67- (1985-) / JPTOS is also available electronically via U of M Libraries and Hein Online (1918-).

Journal of the Patent Office Society.   Washington, DC: The Society, 1918-1984.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1918)-v. 66, no. 12 (Dec. 1984);  Monthly;  Continued by: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .J782  /   LIBRARY HAS: v.1 (1918)-v.66 (1984) / JPOS is also available electronically via U of M Libraries and Hein Online (1918-).

Patent Law Annual  /  Institute on Patent Law.  Albany, NY: Bender, 1966-1984.  [1966-1984;  Annual;   Continues: Institute on Patent Law (U.S.). Patent Law Developments;   Continued by: Institute on Patent Law (U.S.). Proceedings of the ... Annual Institute on Patent Law.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .P32  /  LIBRARY HAS:  1966-1984

Proceedings of the ... Annual Institute on Patent Law.   New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1985-1988.  [23rd (1985)-;  Ceased with 26th (1988);  Annual;
Continues: Institute on Patent Law (U.S.). Patent Law Annual.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .P32  /  LIBRARY HAS:  1985-1988.

Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal.   Newark, NJ: Rutgers Law School, 1981-.  [Vol. 8, no. 2 (1981)-].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .R873  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.8- (1981-) / RCTLJ also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Santa Clara Computer and High-Technology Law Journal.   Santa Clara, CA: University of Santa Clara, School of Law, 1985-.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1985)-;  Two per year.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals  /   Per .S2637  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.1- (1985)- / SCCHTLJ also available electronically via U of M Libraries.

Electronic Sources

LexisNexis

PATENT identifies the Patent Law Library on Lexis.   Contains full text of U.S. patents, 1976-, as well as Manual of Classification.   Also includes patent related federal case law, code, legislation, and PTO admininstrative decisions.  Patent law periodicals and additional secondary sources.  

Westlaw

In the Westlaw Database Directory, 1999 ed., p. 400, "Practice-Area Materials" includes "intellectual property" as a practice area combining copyright, trademark, and patent law.  Case law, legislation, and administrative law are all covered.  So are public records and filings, as well as a wide variety of intellectual property legal texts and periodicals.

WWW

CataLaw: Legal Topics: Intellectual Property Law: Patent Law  /   http://www.catalaw.com/topics/IP_Patent.shtml

Cornell Legal Information Institute.  Patent Law: An Overview  /   http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/patent.html

FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Intellectual Property: Patents  /  http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/02patent/index.html

Contents:  Laws and Government Documents  /  FindLaw Library - documents, briefs, articles & books  /  Journals, Newsletters and Articles  /  Mailing Lists and Usenet Groups  /  Message Board  /   Government Agencies  /  Outlines  /  Software
Intellectual Property Legal News  /  FindLaw Firms Online - Intellectual Property

Hieros Gamos.  The Comprehensive Law & Government Portal.   Click on "(200) Legal and Government Topics".  Then, click on on "intellectual property" or "patents"  /  http://www.hg.org/intell.html

Knuth, Charles M.  Patent Information on the Internet.   /  LLRX Law Library Resource Xchange  /  http://www.llrx.com/features/patent.htm

United States.  Department of Commerce.  Patent and Trademark Office.  /  http://www.uspto.gov/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  /  http://www.wipo.org/

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.  It is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.  WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property which comprises two main branches:

industrial property, chiefly in inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and appellations of origin; and copyright, chiefly in literary, musical, artistic, photographic and audiovisual works.

A substantial part of the activities and the resources of WIPO is devoted to development cooperation with developing countries.  The number of States members of WIPO was over 170 in August, 1998 (see the ratification
situtation of the WIPO Convention for the exact figure.) In addition, six States were party to treaties administered by WIPO but had not yet become members of WIPO.


Trademarks

Looseleaf Services

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.   Washington, DC: BNA, 1970-.  [Began with no. 7 (Dec. 17, 1970);  Weekly, except Thursday following July 4 and last Thursday in Dec., 1974-;  Continues: Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW Looseleaf Services  /  KF 3093.4 .B22x  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.33-  (1987- ).

Callmann, Rudolf.  The Law of Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies.  4th ed.  Wilmette, IL: Callaghan, 1981-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  KF 1609 .C32 1981

McCarthy, J. Thomas.  McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition.  4th ed.  Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1996-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  KF 3180 .M29  /  Shelved in LAW Reserve.

Major Treatises

Chisum, Donald S. and Michael A. Jacobs.  Understanding Intellectual Property Law.  New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1992.   LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  KF 2979 .C45x 1992.

Horwitz, Ethan.  World Trademark Law and Practice.  New York, NY: Matthew Bender, 1982-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW / K 1557.4 .H67.

Kane, Siegrun D.  Trademark Law: a Practitioner's Guide.   3rd ed.  New York, NY: PLI, 1997.  LOCATION: UM/LAW  /  KF 3180 .K36x.

Miller, Christopher J. and Allen D. Choka.  Nichols Cyclopedia of Legal Forms, Vol 8A.  New York:  Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1936-.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  Reference  /  KF 170 .N5.

Schneider, Jerold.  Patent, Trademarks and Copyrights (v.25, West's Legal Forms).  St. Paul, MN: West, 1986-.   LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  REF  /  KF 1384 .A65 .W47.

Seidel, Arthur H., Stephen J. Meyers, and Nancy Rubner-Frandsen.  What the General Practitioner Should Know About Trademarks and Copyrights.   6th ed.  Philadelphia, PA: American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education,  1992.  LOCATION:  UM/LAW   /  KF 3181 .S44 1992.

Periodicals

AIPLA Bulletin. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property Law Association, 1984-. [Jan./Feb. 1984-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A184  /   LIBRARY HAS: 1984-

AIPLA Quarterly Journal. Arlington, VA: American Intellectual Property law Association, 1984-. [Vol. 12, no. 1 (1984)-]  LOCATION: UM/LAW / Periodicals / Per .A185  /  LIBRARY HAS: v.12- (1984-)

Idea.  Washington, DC: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute of the George Washington University, 1964-.  [Vol. 8, no. 2 (summer 1964)-;  Quarterly, 1975-;  Continues: Patent, trade-mark, and copyright journal of research and education.].  LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .I29  /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.10- (1966-).

Intellectual Property Law Review.  New York, Clark Boardman Co.,  v.10- 1978-.  [Continues: Patent law review.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .I525  /    LIBRARY HAS: v.10 (1978)-v.18 (1986)  Incomplete, Library suspended subscription.

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.   Arlington, VA: The Society, 1985-.  [Vol. 67, no. 1 (Jan. 1985)-;   Monthly;  Continues: Journal of the Patent Office Society.].   LOCATION:  UM/LAW Periodicals  /  Per .J7823  /    LIBRARY HAS: v.67- (1985-) / JPTOS is also available electronically via U of M Libraries and Hein Online (1918-) / JPOS is also available electronically via U of M Libraries and Hein Online (1918-).

Journal of the Patent Office Society.   Washington, DC: The Society, 1918-1984.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (Sept. 1918)-v. 66, no. 12 (Dec. 1984);  Monthly;  Continued by: Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society.].   LOCATION: UM/LAW Periodicals   /  Per .J782  /   LIBRARY HAS: v.1 (1918)-v.66 (1984).

The Trademark Reporter.  New York: United States Trademark Association, 1911-.  [Vol. 1, no. 1 (June 1911)-;  Bimonthly, 1970-.].  LOCATION:  UM/LAW  /  Periodicals  /  Per .T68   /  LIBRARY HAS:  v.1-, 1911- / The Trademark Reporter is also available electronically via U of M Libraries (1911-).

Electronic Sources

LexisNexis

TRDMRK identifies Lexis' Trademark and Unfair Competition Law Library, containing both federal and state trademark and unfair competition case law and codes.  Also included are federal trademark legislation, PTO administrative decisions, as well as leading trademark publications and related secondary sources.

Westlaw

Westlaw includes a wide variety of both primary and secondary materials on copyright.  "Drill down" through the online directory via the following path: "All Databases" -> "Topical Materials By Area of Practice" -> "Intellectual Property" -> "Trademarks and Trade Names".

WWW

CataLaw: Legal Topics: Intellectual Property Law: Trademark Law  /   http://www.catalaw.com/topics/IP.shtml

Cornell Legal Information Institute.  Trademark Law: An Overview   /  http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trademark.html

Cornell LII   unfair competition law: an overview  /  http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/unfair_competition.html

FindLaw: Legal Subjects:Intellectual Property: Trademarks  /  http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/03trademark/index.html

Contents:  Laws and Government Documents  /  FindLaw Library - documents, briefs, articles & books  /  Journals, Newsletters and Articles  /  Mailing Lists and Usenet Groups  /  Message Board  /   Government Agencies  /  Outlines  /  Software  /   Intellectual Property Legal News  /  FindLaw Firms Online - Intellectual Property

Hieros Gamos.  The Comprehensive Law & Government Portal. / http://www.hg.org/intell.html

United States.  Department of Commerce.  Patent and Trademark Office.  /  http://www.uspto.gov/

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  /  http://www.wipo.org/

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is an intergovernmental organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.  It is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations.  WIPO is responsible for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world through cooperation among States, and for the administration of various multilateral treaties dealing with the legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property which comprises two main branches:

industrial property, chiefly in inventions, trademarks, industrial designs, and appellations of origin; and

copyright, chiefly in literary, musical, artistic, photographic and audiovisual works.

A substantial part of the activities and the resources of WIPO is devoted to development cooperation with developing countries.  The number of States members of WIPO was over 170 in August, 1998 (see the ratification
situtation of the WIPO Convention for the exact figure.) In addition, six States were party to treaties administered by WIPO but had not yet become members of WIPO.


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