LEX MERCATORIA: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (PROTECTION OF)
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - GENERAL
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Copyright
Industrial Designs
Patents
Trademarks
Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
Domain Names
LINKS
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*Essential Links*
WIPO - World Intellectual Property Organization [link: ]
WIPO
Intellectual Property Network [link: ] Delphion (IBM)
ECUP Copyright Focal Point [link: ] " 'one-stop
shop' for information on European copyright developments." Copyright
Information [link: ]
US Patent and Trademark Office [link: ]
Other Patent and Trade-Mark Offices [link:
]
AIPLA [link: ] American Intellectual Property Law
Association
Canadian Intellectual Property Office [link: ]
*Useful Links*
Groklaw [link: ]
Intellectual Property Mall [link: ] Franklin
Pierce Law Center
World Wide Intellectual Property Law [link:
] Intellectual Property Law Server
[link: ]
Findlaw: Intellectual Property Law [link:
]
Technology Law Resource [link: ] KuesterLaw by
Jeffrey R. Kuester
Intellectual Property [link:
]
Berkeley Sims
Patents and Trademarks Resource Directory [link:
]
Copyright Sites [link: ] DocDel
Intellectual Property Links [link:
] Soroker - Agmon, Advocates and
Patent Attorneys
Pipers Intellectual Property Virtual Library [link:
] All National & Regional Offices [link:
]
Intellectual Property Sites [link:
] Research The World by New York
Law Firm Calotta Levine Samuel, L.L.P.
Intellectual Property [link: ] Ladas & Parry
General Questions about Intellectual Property Law [link:
] Oppedahl & Larson
AIPLA [link: ] - American Intellectual Property Law
Association
Intellectual Property Law Section [link: ]
American Bar Association
POLICY & INTEREST GROUPS
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Union for the Public Domain [link: ]
Information Policy: Copyright & Intellectual Property [link:
]
Intellectual Property: Copyrights, Trademarks & Patents [link:
] Brint . com
EFF: "Intellectual Property Online: Patent, Trademark, Copyright" Archive
[link: ] Electronic Frontier
Foundation
COPYRIGHT
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WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996 [link: ]
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html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty 1996 [link: ]
document manifest [link: ] [^2]
html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works (as revised in 1971 and amended in 1979) [link: ]
document manifest [link: ] [^3]
html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
(
Universal Copyright Convention (as revised 1971) [link: ]
document manifest [link: ] [^4]
html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
Copyright Frequently Asked Questions [link:
]
USENET FAQs
US Copyright Office [link: ] including
Copyright Basics [link: ] FAQ [link:
]
Copyright Sites [link: ] DocDel
Copyright Myths [link: ] USENET
article
US Copyright Clearance Center [link: ]
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Enrolled Bill) H.R.2281 [link:
] at Thomas US -
Legislative Information on the Internet [link: ]
Fairuse [link: ] Stanford primary materials
[link: ]
The Copyright Website [link: ]
Thomson and Thomson [link: ] on Trademarks and
Copyright
Draft Treaty on Certain Questions Concerning the Protection of Literary and
Artistic Works [link: ]
Draft Treaty for the Protection of the Rights of Performers and Producers of
Phonograms [link: ]
Public-Domain.Org [link: ] (follow discussion)
Proposals to Regulate the Public's Rights to use Information stored in
"Databases" (broadly defined) [link:
]
Plagiarism Org [link: ] detection of plagiarized works
on the Net (proprietary plagiarism detection algorithms that have been used at
U.C. Berkeley and abroad.)
ILT Guide to Copyright [link:
] Columbia
University, Institute for Learning Technologies
Creative Commons [link: ]
DOMAIN NAMES
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See domain name registration and domain name dispute resolution
TRADEMARKS
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Trademark Law Treaty [link: ]
Trademark Law Treaty [link: ]
What's In a Name? by Johnathan Agmon
Madrid Agreement, of April, 1891, Concerning the International Registration of
Marks [link: ]
Global Protection System Treaties [link:
] Madrid Agreement
Concerning the International Registration of Marks WIPO [link:
]
Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International
Registration of Marks (Madrid Protocol 1989), adopted at Madrid on June 27,
1989.
Regulations under the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International
Registration of Marks (of April 22, 1988) (Madrid Regulations 1989)
All About Trademarks [link: ] by Gregory H. Guillot
Ladas & Parry [link: ] Firm - including information on
the Community Trademark
Madrid Agreement [link: ]
What's In a Name? by Johnathan Agmon
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
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Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement [of 6 November 1925] concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs (Geneva, 2 July 1999) [link: ]
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html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property [link:
] of March 20, 1883, at
BRUSSELS on December 14, 1900, at WASHINGTON on June 2, 1911, at THE HAGUE on
November 6, 1925, at LONDON on June 2, 1934, at LISBON on October 31, 1958, and
at STOCKHOLM or, July 14, 1967, and as amended on October 2, 1979 (notes)
[link: ] all at WIPO [link:
]
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (as revised in
1967)⌡gopher://gopher.law.cornell.edu:70/00/foreign/fletcher/UNTS11851.txt at
The ⌠LII [link: ]
What's In A Name [link: ] by
Johnathan Agmon
PATENTS
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Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); Done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended on October 2, 1979, and modified on February 3, 1984, and Regulations under the PCT (as in force on January 1, 1985) World Intellectual Property Organization GENEVA 1985 [link: ]
document manifest [link: ] [^6]
html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT); Done at Washington on June 19, 1970, amended
on October 2, 1979, and modified on February 3, 1984, and Regulations under
the PCT (as in force on January 1, 1985) World Intellectual Property
Organization GENEVA 1985., text [link:
]
text [link: ]
⌠PCT
(1970)⌡gopher://palimpsest.stanford.edu:70/00/ByTopic/copyright/patent.cooperation.treaty.1970.txt
The Paris Convention for The Protection Of Industrial Property [link:
] What's in a Name? by Jonathan
Agmon, Stacey Halpern and David Pauker
Regulations under the Patent Cooperation
Treaty⌡gopher://palimpsest.stanford.edu:70/00/ByTopic/copyright/patent.cooperation.treaty.regs.1970.txt
[ ⌠CLOSED [link:
] ] Regulations
under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (as in force from July 1, 1992) * Adopted
on June 19, 1970, and amended on April 14, 1978, October 3, 1978, May 1, 1979,
June 16, 1980, September 26, 1980, July 3, 1981, September 10, 1982, October 4,
1983, February 3, 1984, September 28, 1984, October 1, 1985, July 12, 1991, and
October 2, 1991. At US-PTO/WIPO [link: ]
Treaty on Intellectual Property in respect of Integrated Circuits (Integrated Circuits Treaty) (Washington, 26 May 1989) [link: ]
document manifest [link: ] [^7]
html, segmented text [link: ]
html, scroll, document in one [link: ]
pdf, landscape [link: ]
pdf, portrait [link: ]
odf:odt, open document text [link: ]
plain text utf-8 [link: ]
concordance [link: ]
dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ]
US Patent Server [link: ]
Groklaw Patent Page [link:
]
Selected Intellectual Property Links [link: ]
PIUG Patent Information User Group [link: ]
Patent Law [link: ] LII Cornell
University
Patents and Trademarks Resource Directory [link:
] DocDel
Conventions and Laws etc. [link: ] off
the VRN Patent Law Page
TRIPS - TRADE RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
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Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
The Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) [link:
] What's in a Name? by Jonathan
Agmon, Stacey Halpern and David Pauker
ALTERNATIVE MEMES
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An area to watch, software developer's movements, with alternative intellectual
property ideas:
Also see generally Private International Commercial Law
"Copyleft"/ GPL/ "Libert?" licenses See also below in this section
THE NATURE OF FREE
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Open Sources : Voices from the Open Source Revolution [link:
] 1st Edition January
1999, O'Reilly & Associates The Open Source Story
SOFTWARE FREE LICENSE
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Fresh Memes in Software Development
GNU [link: ] Free Software Foundation - "all information
should be shared" [link: ] Philosophy of the GNU Project
[link: ] "Copyleft", Richard
Stallman [link: ] GPL [link:
] Why Free software is better [link:
]
Don't fear the GPL [link:
]
Copyleft as "the Grand Unified Theory" [link:
] by Danilo Moi, 2003
SOFTWARE OPEN SOURCE
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Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) References [link:
] David A. Wheeler
OSI - Open Source Initiative [link: ] definition
[link: ]
Open Source Software economics [link:
]
by Andrew Welch, 2003
Painless software management - Strategy Letter V [link:
] by Joel Spolsky,
2002
Open Source's - Eric Steven Raymond [link: ]
projects [link: ] random writings
[link: ]
"Involve users worldwide in software creation as allowing them to contribute
to the ongoing process of improving the software they use, results in more
useful, better designed, and more robust creations." Eric Raymond
Open Source Software Institute [link: ]
What is OSSI? The Open-Source Software Institute (OSSI) is a non-profit (501
c 6) organization comprised of corporate, government and academic
representatives whose mission is to promote the development and
implementation of open-source software solutions within U.S. Federal and
State government agencies and academic entities.
SOCIAL CONTRACTS
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Debian Social Contract [link: ]
Gentoo Social Contract [link: ]
Groklaw [link: ]
CREATIVE COMMONS
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Creative Commons [link: ]
Creative Commons People [link:
]
Free Culture [link: ]
Free Culture [link: ]
Lessig on Freedom: Use It or Lose It [link:
]
Lawrence Lessig [link: ]
OPEN PUBLISHING
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MIT Commons [link: ] MIT's OKI -
Open Knowledge Initiative [link: ] MIT's OCW - Open
Courseware [link: ]
Harvard Open Courseware (on Slashdot) [link:
]
Project Gutenberg [link: ]
O'Reilly's Open Books [link: ]
DUAL LICENSES
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MySQL License [link: ]
SleepyCat License [link:
]
QT Freelicense [link: ]
License [link: ] Trolltech
NOKOS [link: ] Nokia
AGAINST SOFTWARE PATENTS
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NO ePATENTS [link: ] Eurolinux
Patent Reform Is Not Enough [link:
]
Letter to the Patent Office [link:
] From Professor Donald Knuth
Should Patents be Granted for Computer Software or Ways of Doing Business?
[link: ] The UK
Government's Conclusions
Slashdot on Patents [link: ]
Making the Case Against Software Patents? [link:
] Slashdot
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY - JOURNALS MAGAZINES AND DISCUSSIONS
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Intellectual Property Magazine [link: ] a quarterly
online magazine addressing issues in law and policy for high technology.
Harvard University Intellectual Property Conference [link:
]
Technology and Intellectual Property Journals [link:
] Journal of Technology Law and Policy
Intellectual Property Law & Technology Forum [link: ]
Boston Massachusetts
Intellectual Property Publications [link:
] Franklin Pierce Law Center
Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal [link:
]
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review [link:
]
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Title: Lex Mercatoria: Intellectual Property
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