Intellectual Property

© 2009 Max Lent

Introduction

Intellectual property's role in global economic competition cannot be overestimated.  Corporations that understand the value of intellectual property may survive.  Those corporations that don't understand the value of intellectual property are sure to fail.

Intellectual property is not just about patents and law.  The process of discovering intellectual property, establishing its value, and marketing it may begin before legal departments become involved.  Mining existing corporate patents for value that is marketable is just one aspect of intellectual property.  What is more challenging is mining corporate knowledge for business processes for IP, reaching out to corporate intellectual capital assets (inventors and researchers) to discover new ways of marketing existing and future IP, and marketing IP in new and innovative ways.

This Web page was initially developed as a means of organizing my collection of hyper links to IP-related Web sites.  Over time it has grown, but it should not be considered the ultimate source of links to IP-related resources.  The best dedicated IP site on the Web is The Intellectual Property Law Server.  I have linked to many of its pages below and included other resources that were not listed or that I could not find.  

Government

Canada

• The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (English)

Europe

• European Patent Office (EPO).  

  • "Established by the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC) signed in Munich 1973, the EPO is the outcome of the European countries' collective political determination to establish a uniform patent system in Europe."
  • "As a centralised patent grant system administered by the European Patent Office on behalf of all contracting states, it is a model of successful co-operation in Europe."

United States

• United States Copyright Office.

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

Jobs

• European Patent Office (EPO) job listings.

• Intellectual Property Jobs offered listings at the Intellectual Property Law Server: http://www.intelproplaw.com/JobsAvailable/. 

• Intellectual property jobs wanted listings at the Intellectual Property Law Server: http://www.intelproplaw.com/JobsWanted/

Lawrence Lessig

• Lawrence Lessig Web site.  Comment:  No contemporary discussion about intellectual property or copyright would be complete without consideration of Lawrence Lessig's views on the topic.  Lessig is one of those people who gets it.  His lectures, available online, are stunningly thought provoking.

  • Audio and video files of Lessig interviews and lectures. 

Listserv

• The Intellectual Property Law Server Listser

News Search

• Intellectual Property News The News Matrix. Over 100 intellectual property news items daily from The Intellectual Property Law Server .

• Yahoo! News Headlines Matches for Intellectual Property.

• Yahoo! News Full Coverage.

Organizations

• American Bar Association Intellectual Property Law IPL.  "Welcome to the home page for the ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law. Formerly the Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, this Section was the second Section created by the ABA and the first Section organized to deal with a special branch of the law. Since 1894, it has contributed significantly to the development of our system for the protection of intellectual property rights. With 20,035 total members as of 8/31/00 (17,295 Lawyer members, 753 Associate members, 1,987 Law student members), the Section is the largest intellectual property organization in the world."

• Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO).  "Intellectual Property Owners Association, which was founded in 1972, now has as members nearly 100 large and mid-size companies and 350 small businesses, universities, inventors, authors, executives, and attorneys."

Online publication directory

• The Intellectual Property Law Server directory of online publications.

Products

• Yahoo! IT Software Marketplace - IT Solutions Directory

Services

• A directory of commercial IP service companies listed at the Intellectual Property Law Server: 

Recommended IP Web sites

• Franklin Pierce Law Center. IP Mall.  "The IP Mall is an internationally acclaimed IP resource Website providing information and links to the most valuable online resources in the world."

• The Intellectual Property Law Server.  There is no question that the The Intellectual Property Law Server has the most breadth and depth of any Web site dealing with IP.  If you don't find what you are looking for here visit the The Intellectual Property Law Server. 

World

• TRIPS ( trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights) "Information on intellectual property in the WTO, news and official records of the activities of the TRIPS Council, and details of the WTO’s work with other international organizations in the field."
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).  "The Organization and its dedicated staff are committed to the pursuit of our mission: To promote through international cooperation the creation, dissemination, use and protection of works of the human spirit for the economic, cultural and social progress of all mankind."

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