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Research Guide


I. General Print Resources   II. International Patents   III. Journals & Periodicals  
IV. Patent Licensing   V. Patent Litigation   VI. Patent Searching  
VII. Internet Resources   VIII. Government Internet Resources   IX. Online Patent Tutorials  
X. Patent Associations      
        

I General Print Resources

Adams, Stephen. Information Sources in Patents. 2nd completely new edition. Munchen, Germany: K.G. Saur, 2006.
Location: Grand Reading Room REF/T210/I53/2006

Aoki, Keith. Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2008.
Location K3876/A95/2008

Amdur, Leon H. Patent Office Rules and Practice. Albany: Matthew Bender, 1949-
Location: KF/3120 A6 A4

Becker, Stephen A. Patent Applications Handbook. Deerfield, IL: Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1993-
Location: KF/3120/Z9/P28 Not kept up-to-date after 2004.

Biotechnology and the Law. Hugh B. Wellons, Eileen Smith Ewing, Editors. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2007 .
Location: KF/3133/B56/B563/2007

Bovenberg, Jasper A. Property Rights in Blood, Genes & Data: Naturally Yours? Leiden; Boston : Matinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006.
Location: K/3611/G46/B68/2006

Chisum, Donald. Chisum on Patents: A Treatise on the Law of Patentability, Validity, and Infringement. New York: Lexis Publishing, 1978-
Location: Reserve Collection, Circ. Desk, KF/3114/C55

Cohen, Wesley, M. Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003 .
Location: Wendt Library Book Stacks T/211/C64/P3/2003

Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of United States Courts in Patent Cases. Washington: G.P.O., 1901-1907
Location: Wendt LibTech Reports Ctr. Stacks, 3rd Floor, Noncirculating C21.6:

Durham, Alan L. Patent Law Essentials: A Concise Guide. 2nd ed.,Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2004.
Location: KF/3114.3/D87/2004

Elias, Stephen; Stim, Richard. Patent, Copyright & Trademark. 7th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2004.
Location: netLibrary (UW Licensed Resource)

Faber, Robert C. Landis on Mechanics of Patent Claim Drafting. 5th ed. New York: Practising Law Institute, 2003-
Location: KF/3125/C5L3/2003

Halbert, Debora J. Resisting Intellectual Property. London: New York: Routledge, 2005
Location: K/1401/H35/2005

Hope, Janet. Biobazaar: the Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008 .
Location: Law Library K/1519/B54/H67/2008
Location: College Library Main Collection 1st fl. West, Rm. 1191, K/1519/B54/H67/2008
Location: Ebling Library TP/248.2/H791b/2008

Kahn, B. Zorina. The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Location: KF2979/K53/2005

Kankanala, Kalyan C. Genetic Patent law and Strategy, 1st ed. Nioda: Manupatra, 2007.
Location: K/1519/B54/K36/2007
Klemens, Ben. Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2006.
Location: K/1519/C6/K54/2006

Mills, John Gladstone, III, Highley, Robert Clare, Reiley, III, Donald Cress. Patent Law Fundamentals. 2d. ed., St Paul:West Group, 2004.
Location: KF/3114/R66/2004

Mills, Oliver. Biotechnological Inventions: Moral Restraints and Patent Law. 1st ed. Aldershot, Hants, England: Burlington , VT: Ashgate, 2005
Location: K/1519/B54/M55/2005

Moy, Carl R. Moy's Walker on Patents. 4th ed, St. Paul, Minn: Thomson/West, 2003.
Location: KF/3114/D42/2003

Narayanan. P. (Parameswaren). Patent Law. 4th ed., Kolkata: Eastern Law House, 2006.
Location: KNS/1134/N375/1998

Patent Arbitration Rules
. American Arbitration Association. New York: American Arbitration Association, 1991-
Location: KF/9086/A42/No.133

Patent Law Annual. Albany, N.Y.: Bender, 1966-1984.
Location: KF/3114/A2/I5

Patent Law Annual. Albany, N.Y.: Bender, 1985-1988.
Location: KF/3114/A2/I5

Patent Law Handbook. New York: Clark Boardman Co., 1978- (annual)
Location: KF/3114.3/P37

Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws. Washington D.C. : BNA Books, 1984- (irregular)
Location: KF/3091.9/P37 Not kept up-to-date after 2005.

Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development. Edited by Johanna Gibson. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub., 2008.
Location: K/1519/B54/P378/2008

Pressman, David. Patent It Yourself. 9th ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Nolo, 2002.
Location: .netLibrary (UW Licensed Resource)
Location: Wendt Lib Tech Rep. Ctr. Patents Area, 3rd Fl, Noncirculating KF/3114.6/P74/2002

Schechter, Roger E. Intellectual Property: The Law of Copyrights, Patents and Trademarks. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2003.
Location: Reserve Collection, Circ. Desk KF/2980/S34/2003

Schwartz, Herbert F. Patent Law and Practice. 6th ed. Washington, DC: Bureau of National Affairs, 2008.
Location: KF/3120/S38/2008

Stobbs, Gregory A. Software Patents. New York: Wiley Law Publications, 1995.
Location: Law Library KF/3133/C65/S76/1995

What is a Patent? Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, Section of Intellectual Property Law, 2006.
Location: KF/3114.3/W453/2006

II. International Patents

Designs and Utility Models Throughout the World. Compiled and Edited by Anne Marie Green. New York, NY: Trade Activities, 1983-
Location: K/1525/A49/D47

Directory of Community Legislation In Force
Location: http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/index.html

First Twenty-Five Years of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) 1970-1995. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, 1995.
Location: K1503.3197/F57/1995

He, Robert Hailin. Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice. Chinese Law Series, v. 5. Buffalo, NY: WS Heine, 2002.
Location: KN/1194/H76/2002

Hestermeyer, Holger. Human Rights and the WTO: The Case of Patents and Access to Medicines. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
Location: K/3240/H47/2007

IP Protection in China: The Law
. Edited by Clare Sleight. 2nd ed. Hong Kong: Asia Law & Practice, 1998.
Location: KNQ1155/I575/1998

Kedgwick, Hiroya. The Essentials of Japanese Patent Law: Cases and Practice, Alphen aan den Rijin : Kluwer Law International ; Frederick, MD : Sold and distributed in North, Central, and South America by Aspen Publishers, 2007
Location: KNX1194 K39 2007

Khader, Feroz Ali. The Law of Patents: with a Special Focus on Pharmaceuticals in India. New Delhi: LexisNesix Butterworths, 2007
Location: KNS1150/M44/K46/2007

Leith, Philip. Software and Patents in Europe. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Location: JKE/2725/L45/2007

Mgbeoji, Ikechi. Global Biopiracy: Patents, Plants, and Indigenous Knowledge. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.
Location: K1519/B54/M43/2006

Muir, Ian. European Patent Law: Law and Procedure under the EPC and PCT. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Location: KJC2725/P7313/2002

Patent Enforcement Worldwide: A Survey of 15 Countries: Writings In Honour of Dieter Stauder. Edited by Christopher Heath and Laurence Petit. 2nd ed. Oxford, Portland, Or. : Hart, 2005 .
Location: K/1505/P38/2005

Sell, Susan K. Private Power, Public Law: The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Location: K/1401/S4553/2003
Location: Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving K/1401/S4553/2003

Sender, Marta Pertegas. Cross-Border Enforcement of Patent Rights: An Analysis of the Interface Between Intellectual Property and Private International Law. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Location: K/JE2725/P47/2002

Westerlund, Li. Biotech Patents: Equivalence and Exclusions under European and U.S. Patent Law. The Hague; New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002.
Location: K/1519/B54/W47/2002

World Patent Law and Practice. Compiled by John P. Sinnott. New York: M. Bender, 1974-
Location: K/1504.15/1974

III. Patent Journals & Periodicals
BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal. Washington D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 1970- (loose-leaf)
Location: Reference Collection KF/2976.5/B25

Federal Circuit Yearbook: Patent Law Developments in the Federal Circuit. New York: Practicing Law Institute, 1997- (annual.)
Location: Grand Reading Room. REF KF/3157/C58

Federal Circuit Bar Journal. Washington D.C.: Federal Circuit Bar Association, 1991-
Location: Periodicals, 3rd Floor.

Idea: the Journal of Law and Technology. Washington, D.C.: Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Research Institute of the George Washington University, 1964-
Location: Periodicals, 3rd Floor
Location: Business Library
.Heine Online (UW Licensed Resource)
.LexisNexis (UW Licensed Recourse)

Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society. Arlington, VA: Patent and Trademark Office Society. 1985-
Location: Periodicals 3rd Floor.
Location: http://heinonline.org/HeinOnline/start.pl

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office . U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office.
Location: Wendt Library Tech Reports Ctr., 4th Floor, Noncirculating. V81 1897: Nov. - Dec. C. 2 Temporarily Shelved at Wendt Library Special Coll., Reference Desk, Noncirculating C/21.5:

Patent Electronic Official Gazette. Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Jan. 3, 2003- (July 22, 2002)
Location: http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/index.htm

Patent Law and Biological Inventions. Edited by Matthew Rimmer . Annandale, NSW : Federation Press, 2006.
Location: 3rd floor periodicals
shelved with: Law in Context, v. 24

The United States Patents Quarterly. Washington: Associated Industry Publications, 1929-
Location: Reference Collection REF KF/2975/A2/U552        

IV. Patent Licensing

Brunsvold, Brian G., O'Reilley, Dennis P. Drafting Patent Licensing Agreements. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs,1998.
Location: KF/3145/M35/1998

Jensen, Richard. Patent Licensing and the Research University. Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2004.
Location: Social Science Reference Library HB1/W6/no.10758
Internet Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/W10758.pdf

Korah, Valentine, Assisted by Warwick Rothnie. Know-How Licensing Agreements and the Competition Rules: Regulation 556/89. Oxford: ESC Pub. Limited, 1989.
Location: KJE/2777/K67/1989

Brunsvold, Brian. Drafting Patent License Agreements. 6th ed. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Affairs, 2008.
Location: KF/3145/M35/2008

Megantz, Robert C. How to License Technology. New York: J. Wiley, 1996.
Location: KF/3145/M44/1996

Milgrim, Roger M. Milgrim on Trade Secrets. New York : M. Bender, 1967-
Location Reserve Collection, Circulation Desk KF3197/A6/M5

Poltorak, Alexander (Alexander I), Lerner, Paul J. Essentials of Licensing Intellectual Property [Electronic Resource] Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley & Sons, 2004.
Location: .netLibrary (UW Licensed Resource)

Port, Kenneth L. [et. al.] Licensing Intellectual Property in the Digital Age, Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
Location: Law Library KF3145 L53 1999

Pressman, David. Patent it Yourself . 10th ed. Berkeley, CA.: Nolo, 2004.
Location: College Library Reference Collection, 1st Floor, Center Area KF/3114.6/P74/2002
Location: Wendt Lib Tech Rep Ctr. Patents Area, 3rd Fl, Noncirculating KF/3114.6/P74/2004
Location: Wendt Library Book Stacks KF/3114.6/P74/2004
Location: .netLibrary (UW Licensed Resource)

Resnik, David. Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004.
Location: KF/3133/B56/R47/2004

Schlicher, John W . Licensing Intellectual Property 1998: International Regulation, Strategies, and Practices. New York : Wiley, 1998 .
Location: KF/3145/S352/1998

Slusky, Ronald D. Invention Analysis and Claiming: A Patent Lawyer's Guide. 1st ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2007.
Location: IF/3131/S58/2007

Thorsby, Jerry G. Who is Selling the Ivory Tower? Sources of Growth in University Licensing. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000.
Location: Social Science Reference Library HB/1/W6/no.7718

V. Patent Litigation

Alternative Dispute Resolution in Technology Disputes. New York, NY: Center for Public Resources, Rev. Ed. 1993.
Location: IF/9084/A96/1993

American Arbitration Association. Patent Arbitration Rules. New York: American Arbitration Rules.
Location: KF9086/A42/ no.133, (latest edition only.)
http://www.adr.org/sp.asp?id=22013

Arnold, Tom; with Michael G. Fletcher and Robert J Maughan, Jr. Patent Alternative Dispute Resolution Handbook. Deerfield, IL: Clark Badman Callahan, 1991 .
Location: KF3116/A76/1991
Location: http://www.indexmaster.com/texis/db/search/fbytitle.html?p=west&h=5061624918286e7f

Cohen, Westley, Merrill, Stephen. Patents in the Knowledge-Based Economy. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2003 .
Location: Wendt Library Book Stacks T/211/C64/P3/2003

Edelman, James. Gain-Based Damages. Oxford; Portland, Or.: Hart Pub., 2002 .
Location: KD/702/D3/E34/2002

Model Jury Instructions: Patent Litigation. Chicago, American Bar Association, Section of Litigation, 2005.
Location: KF/8984/A65/P38/2005

Moore, Kimberly Pace; Michael, Paul R., Lupo, Raphael V. Patent Litigation and Strategy. St. Paul, MN: Thomson/West, 2003.
Location: KF3155/A7/M66/2003
Science in Court. Edited by Michael Freeman and Helen Reese. Aldershot; Brookfield, VT.: Ashgate/Dartmouth, 1998.
Location: KF/2283/S39/1998

O'Conner, Edward. Tort Trial & Insurance Practice. Intellectual Property Law and Litigation. Chicago, Ill. : American Bar Association, 2003.
Locatio: KF/2980/O26/2003

White, Robert A. Patent Litigation: Procedure and Tactics. New York, M. Bender, 1971-
Location: KF/3155/W5

Lowery, Woodbury. Index-Digest to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in Patent Causes, Including Those Adjusted During October Term, 1896, and Containing References to the Concurrent Reports in Robb's Patent Cases; Whiteman's Patent cases; Fisher's Patent Reports; the Official Brodix's American and English Patent Cases; the Lawyer's Co-Operative Publishing Co's, edition; and the official edition of the United States Reports. Washington D.C., J. Byrne and Company, 1897.
Location: KF/3105.7/L68

VI. Patent Searching

Hitchock, David. Patent Searching Made Easy. 2nd ed. Rev. March 2001. Berkley: Nolo Press, 2001.
Location: Wednt Lib Tech Rep Ctr. Patents Area, 3rd Floor. TC210 H58 2001

Hitchock, David. Patent Searching Made Easy. 1st ed. 1999. Berkey: Nolo Press, 1999.
Location: http://www.books24x7.com/marc.asp?isbn=0873374762

Patent Searching: Tools & Techniques, edited by David Hunt, Long Nguyen, Matthew Rodgers.
Publisher: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2007
Location: Reserve Collection T210 P38 2007

Sharpe, Charles C. Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Searching on the Internet. Jefferson. N.C. : McFarlane, 2000
Location: Reference Collection, Grand Reading Room REF T/210/S53/2000
Location: Memorial Library Stacks Regular Size Shelving T/210/S53/2000
Location: Wended Library Book Stacks T/210/S53/2000

VII. Internet Resources

Link to a List of Patent Web Site Links

To view a list of patents sites and their coverage, both free and fee-based, see http://www.tip.net.au/~rossco/psearch.html. This service provides links to both United States patents as well as international patents.

Delphion Intellectual Property Network. http://www.delphion.com
Delphion began as a free patent search service provided by IBM, but has since become a fee- based patent service and is now part of Thomson Corporation. With free registration, Delphion.com offers simple searches for US patents, patent number searching for worldwide collections and free work files. For a fee these files can be sent to you in either PDF or TIFF.

Free Patents Online
, http://www.freepatentsonline.com
This patent service provides full text coverage dating from 1974 to the present. The full text database permits keyword searching. The database uses the same search fields as the USPTO. The codes for the fields are provided at the bottom of the advanced search site, but read the guide from the USPTO Web site on field searching for examples. TIFF or PDF copies of patents can be downloaded from this service for free. TIFF is downloaded one page at a time.

Get the Patent
http://www.getthepatent.com
A fee-based patent service, offers a free trial offer for 14 days with registration.

Google Patent
http://www.google.com/ptshp?tab=wt
Google provides a great site for locating patents, including pdf versions of the patent.

Micropat
http://www.micropat.com/static/index.htm
Micropat is a large fee-based database and includes other services such as Optipat. Micropat offers file wrappers (file histories of patents) and file wrappers stored in their file can be searched by patent number for free.

Patent Café
. http://www.patentcafe.com
This site offers both fee based and free information on patents. While you are this site, try Open Source Software (OSS) Patent Search Engine. ICO Global Patent Search engine through PatentCafe at http://www.IAMcafe.com. IBM provides open access to key technologies to groups working on open source software. Access is free.

Patent Fetcher by Patent Logistics, LLC http://free.patentfetcher.com/Patent-Fetcher-Form.php
Offers free copies of patents if you have the patent number. Basically, it does what it states, it fetches patents in PDF. The service limits how many patents you can download in a 24 hour period. See the note of explanation at their web site. Copies of both European and United States patents are available at this site.

OnCloud8
http://patents.oncloud8.com/. Covers US and European patents. Can download multiple patents at once.

Pat2PDF http://www.pat2pdf.org
Pat2.org offers free PDF copies of patents.

The Patent Hunter. http://www.patenthunter.com
Offers a free trial to download their software and a variety of packages for a subscription service.

Questel Orbit Intellectual Property Group
. http://www.questel.orbit.com/index.htm
For international coverage, this site provides full-text coverage of United States and European patents dating back to the 1970s.

VIII. Government Internet Resources

The United States Patent Office at http://www.uspto.gov. The United States Patent Office provides a database of all patents filed with the United States Patent Office. The patent office offers a Full Text Database, a Full Page Image Database, and a Published Applications Database. Patents can be researched in a variety of ways on the USPTO databases. Keyword searching and field searching are available in the Full Text database. Coverage in the Full Text Database dates from 1976 to the present. Coverage for the full-page images database has patents dating from 1790. The Patent Applications Database dates from 2001 to the present.

The Canadian Patent Office at http://patents.ic.gc.ca/cipo/cpd/welcome.html The Canadian patent office provides access to full text patents. Coverage dates from 1978 to the present. A full page images database is also available at this web site. The Full Page Image database includes the cover page, abstract, claims, drawings and designs. The site warns that there is a limitation on downloading pages in PDF.

European Patent Office
. Espacenet provided by the European Patent Office, At http://www.epo.org/ offers patent searching for patents at the European Patent Office, the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO), Japanese patents and patents in selected countries throughout the world.
To locate members of the European Patent Office, see the list provided at
http://www.european-patent-office.org/online/index.htm. Scroll to List of Links at bottom of page to view the list.
IX. Online Tutorials

University of Central Florida.
http://library.ucf.edu/GovDocs/PatentsTrademarks/Research.asp

University of Texas at Austin.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent-tutorial/index.htm

Biological Innovation for Open Society
http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50/116

Duke University Chemistry Library
http://www.lib.duke.edu/chem/patents.htm.

X. Patent Associations

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA)
http://www.aipla.org/

Coalition for Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.cipr.org/

Intellectual Property Owners Association
http://www.ipo.org/

International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA)
http://www.iipa.com/

National Association of Patent Practitioners
http://www.napp.org

The Patent Office Professional Association (POPA) http://www.popa.org

Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs) Association
http://www.ptdla.org/

World Intellectual Property Organization
http://www.wipo.org        



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University of Wisconsin -Madison Law Library
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