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Intellectual Property Legal Research: Home

This guide lists useful resources and databases to get you started with intellectual property legal research. The guide will cover copyright, patents https://www.wipo.int/en/web/patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. 

"Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce. IP is protected in law by, for example, patents, copyright and trademarks, which enable people to earn recognition or financial benefit from what they invent or create. By striking the right balance between the interests of innovators and the wider public interest, the IP system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish."

WIPO: https://www.wipo.int/en/web/about-ip/

Ebooks

  • University Town Library: https://utsz.metaersp.cn/electricNav (do a keyword or title search by intellectual property, copyright, patent, patents, trademark, trade secrets); also, check out our ebook research guide and search within specific ebook collections: https://lrcguides.stl.pku.edu.cn/c.php?g=970621

  • The Edward Elgar Ebook Collection: includes a focus on intellectual property.

     

Print Books

See this guide: https://lrcguides.stl.pku.edu.cn/library/FindBooksatUTL (do a keyword or title search by intellectual property, copyright, patent, patents, trademark, trade secrets)

Law Reviews and Journals

https://lrcguides.stl.pku.edu.cn/library/law_journals (do a keyword or title search by intellectual property, copyright, patent, patents, trademark, trade secrets)

Textbooks (ebook and print)

Databases & Other Online Resources

Lexis does not have a landing page for intellectual property. You must choose the topics: patents, copyright, trademark, trade secrets.

 

  • ABA Journal Law Blawgs 
    Search on the topics copyright law, intellectual property law, patent law, trademark law, trade secrets, etc.
  • United States Copyright Office
    "The Copyright Office registers copyright claims, records information about copyright ownership, provides information to the public, and assists Congress and other parts of the government on a wide range of copyright issues, both simple and complex."
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
    "The USPTO is the federal agency that grants patents, registers trademarks, and advises the Administration, through the Secretary of Commerce, on intellectual property policy."
  • World Intellectual Property Association (WIPO)
    "The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is the United Nations agency that serves the world’s innovators and creators, ensuring that their ideas travel safely to the market and improve lives everywhere."

 

Link: https://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?a=I

Contains "legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, 
patents, and trademarks".  

Under ebooks, Print books, Law Reviews and Journals. change the search strategy to: (do a keyword or title search by intellectual property, copyright, patent, patents, trademark, trade secrets)