Patents, Trademarks, & Copyrights

Washington, D. C., U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Call Number: Langson Lib. Ref Desk, C 21.2:P 27/18/999

Don't rely entirely on this list. There are other directories such as Martindate Hubbell (https://www.martindale.com/)

Developed as a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab, Cisco, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), this open-access repository archives prior art in a variety of formats, including Word documents, web pages, Excel spreadsheets, images, and videos.

Important Intellectual Property regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

This paper argues that the ability to keep innovations secret may be a key determinant of patenting. The paper examines a newly-collected data set of more than 7,000 American and British innovations at four world's fairs between 1851 and 1915.

Call number: Langson Lib. Ref: HF5415.153 .P35 2005

Message from the President of the United States transmitting Patent Law Treaty and regulations under the Patent Law Treaty (the "Treaty") done at Geneva on June 1, 2000, between the governments of 53 countries including the United States of America.

Aligning Reward and Contribution
This paper identifies a number of specific fact patterns under which the current U.S. patent system allows patent holders to capture private rewards that exceed their social contributions.

Directory Library includes Encyclopedia of Associations for U.S. and international nonprofit organizations.

Call Number: Langson Lib. Ref: HC110.T4 M335 2005

CA, Nolo Press, 2002
Call Number: Langson Lib. Ref: KF 3114.6 P373

Call number: Langson Lib. Ref: KF3114.6 .P38 2005

Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 2002
Call Number: Science Lib. Ref: T 223 P2 P38

Call number: Langson Lib. Ref: KF3114.85 .T47 2007

Call number: Science Lib. Ref: T210 .H86 2007

Washington, DC Bureau of National Affairs, 1998
Call number: Langson Lib. Ref: KF 3091.9 P37

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Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 2002
Call number: Science Lib Ref: KF 3114.6 P738

Fundamentals of Global Law, Practice, and Strategy, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999
Call number: Science Lib. Ref : T211 G76 1999

A Window on the Knowledge Economy, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002
Call Number: Science Lib. Ref: T211 J34 2002

Understanding Intellectual Property Rights. NY: Zed Books, 2001
Call Number: Langson Lib. Ref: K1519 B54 S533 2001

Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1997
Call Number: Science Lib. Ref: T223 U3 L6 1997

Probably the most thorough and current overview of patents.

For basic patent analysis. Also contains some visualizations which are helpful.

From the European Patent Office, particularly good to review large quantities of data.

Patent analytics.