Intellectual Property

Popular Works:

• Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know, by Stephen Fishman. REFERENCE KF2995 .F53 2014.
• Nolo's Patents for Beginners, by David Pressman and Richard Stim. REFERENCE KF3114.85 .P737 2009.
• Patent, Copyright & Trademark, by Richard Stim. REFERENCE KF2980 .E44 2014.
• Patent It Yourself: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office, by David Pressman. REFERENCE KF3114.85 .P74 2014.
• Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business & Product Name, by Stephen Elias and Richard Stim. REFERENCE KF3180.Z9 E43 2013.

Other Internet Resources:

• Collection of National Copyright Laws - Provides national copyright and related rights legislation of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Member States.
• Cornell University Copyright Information Center
  • Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
• European Patent Office - Espacenet - Search more than 80 million patent documents worldwide, from 1836 to present.
• Google Patent Search
• INNOVACCESS: A European Network of National Intellectual Property Offices
• Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database - Search copyright renewal records received by the U.S. Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the U.S. between 1923 and 1963.
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • Directory of Intellectual Property Offices
  • WIPO Lex - WIPO's search facility for national intellectual property laws and treaties of WIPO, WTO, and UN Members.
• World Trade Organization (WTO)