Industry Resources

General information:

• American Intellectual Property Law Association
• Arab Society for Intellectual Property
• European Patent Office
• esp@cenet - European Network of Patent Databases
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• World Intellectual Property Association
• Patentscope
• International Classifications
• IP Watchdog
• Licensing Executives Society International
• Licensing Executives Society U.S. & Canada
• Intellectual Property Owners Association
• National Association of Patent Practitioners
• Intellectual Asset Management Magazine

Texts of legal regulations:

• European Patent Convention and Implementing Regulation
• Community Trademark Regulation and Implementing Regulation
• Community Design Model Regulation and Implementing Regulation
• Paris Convention
• Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and Regulations under the PCT
• Patent Law Treaty (PLT) and its Regulations
• Trademark Law Treaty (TLT) and its Regulations
• Madrid Agreement, its Protocol and Common Regulations
• The Hague Agreement concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs
• Intellectual Property Protection Treaties
• CLEA - Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (compiled by WIPO)
• US Patent Act (35 USC)
• US Patent Rules (37 CFR)

Case law databases:
• Decisions of the German Constitutional Court
• Decisions of the German Federal Supreme Court
• Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Opposition Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Cancellation Divisions of the Community Trademark Office
• Decisions of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office
• Decisions of the US Supreme Court
• Decisions of the US Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit (CAFC)
• Decisions of the WIPO panel in domain name cases
• Trademark Decisions of Swiss Courts (e.g. absolute and relative Grounds for Refusal)