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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."

FAQ (Summaries of Frequently asked Questions) are still a good start: Copyright Law - Usenet FAQ by Terry Carroll.

The publication ILA Information Law Alert focuses especially on wireless communications, intellectual property, and battles between the cable and telephone industries. It's on paper, NewsNet and Dialog.

The book "Intellectual Property in a Nutshell," by Arthur R. Miller of Harvard Law School and Michael H. Davis of Cleveland-Marshall College of Law (West Publishing, 1990, ISBN 0-314-75738-4), provides a fine introduction not only to copyright law, but also to patent and trademark law. It's typically available from college or law school bookstores for about $15.

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

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

BFG, Feb-95