Intellectual Property Research Guide: News, Blogs, Interesting Websites

Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal and World Intellectual Property Report are available to members of the Loyola community.

Free subscriptions available. Marketed to global corporate counsel.

Newsletter available to members of the International Trademark Association (INTA).

Regular news alerts available by subscription, but also has limited e-mail alerts for free. This news service is run by a non-profit independent news service.

Available to members of the Intellectual Property Owners Association (ILO).

Regular news alerts available by subscription.

Blog by Ray Dowd, author of Copyright Litigation Handbook (West).

Rebecca Tushnet, a professor at Georgetown, writes this blog covering false advertising law, as well as other trademark and copyright issues. It is searchable by subject and is archived back to 2003.

Blog of the International Trademark Association covering trademark topics

Blog focused on IP in Europe.

Blog about IP in general, but with focus on patents. It includes blog postings, background on law, and interviews.

Blog by Australian attorneys with interesting posts about worldwide IP law.

This blog by Dennis Couch, a professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, includes commentary on current issues in patent law and lists job postings. It is searchable by subject and is archived back to April, 2004.

Blog focused on IP in India.

Blog provides regular commentary on trademark and copyright cases, with links to court documents.

Blog provides commentary on notable decisions of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board; lists precedential TTAB decisions by year, articles, and useful links; and includes a blog archive back to November, 2004.

Blog by Seyfarth Shaw LLP on trade secrets, non-competes, and computer fraud.

Website created by Eric Johnson, a professor of law at the University of North Dakota, with images of the tangible items in well-known IP cases.

Guide from the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy for determining whether a work is in the public domain.

Guide, hosted on Cornell University's website, for determining whether work is in the public domain.