Category Archives: Intellectual Property

The USPQ is now available only through Bloomberg Law and the Intellectual Property Law Resource Center on BNA.com.   Thanks to Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, Director of Library Services at Kenyon & Kenyon LLP, for letting me know the USPQ is no longer … Continue reading →

There’s a whole new section on patent interference proceedings in the U.S. – Patents entry.

I brushed up on my copyright basics this weekend and then added the primers and fair use checklists I found most useful to the “Laws and Regulations” section of the Copyrights entry.

Last week I was asked to check on a U.S. patent application that wasn’t showing up in the Public PAIR database.  Was the application number wrong?  I had to think about it, but eventually I called the PTO’s Patent Electronic Business Center … Continue reading →

The Copyright Royalty Board sets the royalty rate for playing songs on Internet radio (and other places) and, more generally, oversees “statutory licenses.”   There is now a little section on the Board near the end of the Copyrights entry.

The U.K.’s Intellecual Property Office finally put up an online patent database.  I added the database, called Ipsum, to the list of national databases in the Patents – Foreign entry.

After popping Lucy’s link into the Copyrights entry yesterday I ended up revising and updating the whole entry.

If you need a treatise on practicing before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board,  the “Trademark Trial and Appeal Board” section of the Trademarks entry now has three:  West’s Guide to TTAB Practice, plus two new ones — the Guide … Continue reading →

Back in 2008, ICAAN voted to let qualified “corporations, organizations and institutions” set up their own generic Top Level Domain Names (gTLDs) instead of using the standard .com, .org, .edu, etc.  That could raise the number of gTLDs from about  20 … Continue reading →