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This page provides links to online sources of information about the three basic forms of intellectual property: patents, trademarks, and copyright.
General
- Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center.
- EFF "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive. Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Patents
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Home Page.
- USPTO Web Patent Databases: Full-text of patents since 1976, full-page images since 1790; also patent applications published since March 15, 2001.
- Google Patent Search. Search the USPTO database using Google's easy to use interface. Covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO-from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006.
- General Information Concerning Patents: USPTO brochure.
- Canadian Patents Database: Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Access to over 75 years of Canadian patent data.
Trademarks
- Trademarks main page from the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
- Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS), online database from the USPTO.
- Trademark Law Materials at Cornell University Law School.
- Basic Facts about Trademarks: USPTO brochure.
Copyright
- United States Copyright Office Home Page.
- Search Copyright Records: Registrations and Documents. Web-based search that covers U.S. copyright registrations since 1978. Also contains a link to the more comprehensive LOCIS database.
- Catalog of Copyright Entries
- Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database is a searchable database of copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963.
- Portions have been digitized and placed online at the Online Books Page.
- World Intellectual Property Organization
- Copyright Treaty of the World Intellectual Property Organization (adopted 12/20/96).
Last Modified: 07/08/2008