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Patent

• The United States Patent and Trademark Office web site containing up to date information regarding U.S. patents.
  
• General information concerning U.S. patents and patent applications, patent laws, and answers to frequently asked questions.
  
• Terms of U.S. patents extended under private law, 35 U.S.C. 155 and 156.
  
• Search and browse the Official Gazette Notices from July 1, 1964 to the present.
• USPTO—Board Of Patent Appeals And Interferences Decisions
• GATT 1994
  
• European Patent Office web site including course and seminar information, news and updates, and more.
  
• Member countries of the European Patent Office including their two letter codes and the list of Patent Information Centres for each country.
  
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) System web site including a seminar calendar, forms, press releases and updates, the PCT Gazette and more.
  
• Patent Cooperation Treaty
  
• ep.espacenet.com (Free International patent searching service provided by the European Patent Organization through the EPO and the national offices of its member states)

Trademark

• The United States Patent and Trademark Office web site containing up to date information regarding U.S. trademarks.
  
• "Basic Facts about Registering a Trademark."
  
• Trademark status line - To find out the status of an application at any time call (703) 305-8747.
• Search and browse the Official Gazette Notices from July 1, 1964 to the present.
  
• Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) providing information regarding European Community trade marks.
  
• Network Solutions, Inc. homepage for finding available domain names.
  

Copyright

• The United States Copyright Office web site containing general information and publications, new and pending copyright legislation and more.
  
• Full text of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works Paris Act of July 24, 1971 (as amended on September 28, 1979)
  

Courts

• United States Supreme Court
• Federal Courts Homepage
• The Federal Court Locator providing access to information related to the United States federal judiciary including slip opinions.
  
• The State Court Locator containing links to home pages and opinions by state judiciaries.
  
• Links to the opinions of the high courts in the United States.
  
• The Judicial Branch web site containing links to information about the Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and more.
  
• United States International Trade Commission providing information on recent petitions and complaints, notices and rules of practice and procedure according to the Federal Register, and more.

Magazines

• Intellectual Property Today containing information focused on intellectual property issues, geared to intellectual property service professionals, attorneys, patent agents and executives.
  

Government

• Patent Bills in Congress.
  
• U.S. House of Representatives providing Committee hearing schedules, information about bills and resolutions being considered in the Congress and more.
  
• U.S. Senate providing information about U.S. Senators, recent legislative actions and more.
  
• Department of Commerce including information related to business and trade, statistics related to the U.S. economy, and more.
  
• Library of Congress providing information on special resources for information and research professionals, text of current bills under consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, and more.
  

Other Links

• International Patent Offices
• Intellectual Property Network (former IBM Full-text Patent Site)
• Intellectual Property Owners (IPO)
• Law News Network
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• IP Australia
• Canadian Intellectual Property Office
• Chinese Patent Office
• Croatian Patent Office
• Danish Patent Office
• European Patent Office
• French Patent Office
• German Patent Office
• Japanese Patent Office
• IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.)
• American Bar Association - Section of Intellectual Property Law (ABA-IPL)
• American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
• International Trade Commission (ITC)
• International Trademark Association
• Licensing Executives Society (LES)
• Materials Research Society