Legal Resources / Institutions

Intellectual Property on the Internet/Web

• Here is the WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization. This server has finally (April-95) opened up and now offers a useful collection from the WIPO Intellectual Property Lexicon, i.e. Austrian Design Law, Korean Patent Law etc. !
  This is a Gopher abouth WIPO and a description of WIPO.

• IP auditing is discussed in an article of CONNECTions Monthly, Utah Wired! : June 94, I.P.-audits
• The Venable Report and an Information law publications featuring The NII Oracle (5th ed.) is published by Venable,Baetjer Attorneys. Prior editions are listed here.

• E-Journals and Periodicals: links you to e.g. an IP-magazine.

• EINet Galaxy Intellectual Property meta index.
• Yahoo Intellectual Property meta index.

Information law & Patents resources

• The Subject Index for Law from the WWW Virtual Library is very extensive and points you to more resources,
  
  • e.g. to an Index of Legal Resources on the Internet :
    Law-on-the-WEB Master Index etc etc !

• The U.S. Patents & Trademark Office has information about Trademarks.
• U.S. Patents full text from 1994

• The people-index is part of a Meta-Index for Legal Research to do legal research.

• The Information Law Web

• Please see relevant treaties and laws on our IP-page.

Links to Legal Institutions in the U.S. :

• The Center for Advanced Research and Study on Intellectual Property (CASRIP) is at the Uni of Washington and has a newsletter.
• Indiana Law School
• Washington & Lee University has a Gopher about
  Law Related Sources
• The Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy

Usenet Newsgroups :

• misc.legal: the main newsgroup covering legal issues, including copyright law.
• misc.legal.moderated: A moderated analog to misc.legal, but moderated, and probably with a higher signal-to-noise ratio as a result.
• misc.int-property: Discussions of intellectual property; copyright, patent, trademark and trade secrecy, and their alternatives.
• misc.legal.computing: Legal issues related to computers. Copyright and patent issues predominate.
• comp.patents: Issues related to computers and patents, including software patents. Moderated by patents-request@cs.su.oz.au (Peter Treloar). Please note that the focus of this group is more on patent law than copyright law.
• comp.software.licensing: Trends, practices, and techniques in software licensing.
• gnu.misc.discuss: Frequently includes issues of software patents, copyright, and "copyleft."

Questel/Orbit: Patent and Trademark Welcome Page and UCI Bookstore have an Intellectual Property Page.

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Gopher Results for ``intellectual property''

• Organizations :
  • Intellectual Property Law Association, U.S. "(..) in the Giles S. Rich Intellectual Property Moot Court".
  • Law 5088. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MOOT COURT

• Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law WW 2.0 is a paper for the conference on Technological Strategies for Protecting Intellectual Property in the Networked Multimedia Environment, April 1993, by Prof. Perrit of Villanova Law School, PA.
  Version WW2: Protecting.Intellectual.Property.WW2
• Intellectual Property Committe at uth.tmc.edu

• Intellectual Property Issues in Software - Score: 1000
• Chap04_6. Intellectual Property Protection - Score: 1000

• IP at MIT's Gopher:
  • Part Six, Ch.17 - Intellectual Property ***Chapter Seventeen, Article 1701 ff.
  • 4.12 Ownership of Intellectual Property is MIT's agreement of 1990.
  • 4.10 Intellectual Property Policies and Procedures lists Objectives only.
• Coalition for Networked Information HyTelnet Information Server.
• Nov 18 hearing on intellectual property issues - Score: 1000
• Call for Contributions (IMA Intellectual Property Project)
• Conflict btwn State Open Records & Intellectual Property
• Re: Intellectual property

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BFG, Feb-95