Web Hot Spots Last updated on May 27, 2008

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General Interest

• Legal Information Institute U.S. Code, Federal Rules of Evidence and Procedure, links to official sites for statutes and case law for all 50 states, searchable opinions from all of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court
  
• Edgar Searchable database of required corporate filings for every publicly traded company.
  
• Newspapers.com Links to all of the papers available online on the Internet.

Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Offices

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
  
• U.S. Copyright Office
  
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  
• European Patent Office (EPO)
  
• Intellectual Property Offices in other countries
  

Intellectual Property Searches

• General IP Links
• Delphion Intellectual Property Network
• USPTO Patent Server
• STO's Internet Patent Search
  
• Software Patent Institute
  
• Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.
• IP NewsFash

Intellectual Property Law Related Organizations

• AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association)
  
• American Bar Association's Section on Intellectual Property
  
• State Bar of Texas Computer Section
  
• AUTM (Association of University Technology Managers)
  
• LES (Licensing Executives Society)
  
• PTOS (Patent and Trademark Office Society)
  
• Software Publishers Association (Software and Information Industry Association)
  
• Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal
• Texas Intellectual Property Law Society

Rules and Statutes

• U.S. Patent Act
  
• U.S. Copyright Act
  
• U.S. Trademark Act
  
  
• Supreme Court decisions
  
• Federal Circuit decisions
  
• State legal resources
  
  
• Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes
  
• U.S. Code of Federal Regulations & Federal Register
  
• Uniform Commercial Code
  
• Legislative Information
  
• House of Representatives
  
  
• Manual of Patent Examining Procedure
  
• USPTO Examination Guidelines for Computer-Related Inventions
  
• USPTO Examination Guidelines for Design Patent Applications for Computer Icons
  
• Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
  
• Search Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
  
• Trademark Examination of Domain Names
  
• U.S. PTO Trademark Electronic Data Interchange
• A Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure
  
• U.S. Copyright Information Circular

IP Blogs

• IPLaw360
• Patently-O
• Peter Zura's 271 Patent Blog
• Peter Brooks' Patent Infringement Updates
• Eastern District of Texas Weblog (includes some patent cases)

Forms

• U.S. PTO Forms
• U.S. Copyright Forms
  

Patent Cooperation Treaty

• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)Index
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Guide
  

Antitrust Law

• Antitrust Law Center
• U.S. Antitrust Law

Miscellaneous

• The Intellectual Property Mall Page (FPLC)
• The Patent, Copyright, Trademark Titles List
• National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Intellectual Property Law FAQs
• Careers in Intellectual Property Law