11-word snippets can infringe copyright, rules ECJ                                                                   23 October 2009
Danish clippings service Infopaq was taken to court by Danish newspaper industry body Danske Dagblades Forening(DDF) over reproduction of 11-word snippets of news for sale to clients; The agency would scan in newspaper pages & use software to turn the image of the page into text; keyword that client wanted monitored & 5 words on either side of it were kept;

1923–1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain?                         28 June 2008

Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Arts Board(ATSIAB)                                                         20 November 2003
under auspices of Australia Council, indigenous lawyers produced guides including Writing Cultures which takes writers through sensitive issues such as research, confidentiality, consent & copyright

ACAP(Automated Content Access Protocol) non-proprietary, global permissions tool               23 July 2009

Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement(ACTA)                                                                            1 April 2010
50 page agreement discussed between Australia, Canada, US, EU & its 27 member states, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore & Switzerland establishes a list of legal arrangements that future signatories will pledge to adopt in their national legislations (&, for the EU, in community law); 8 Apr 2012: ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) Treaty provokes tensions over rights:

Adelphi Charter on Creativity, Innovation & Intellectual Property                                               1 April 2006
sets out new principles for copyrights & patents, calls on governments to apply a new public interest test;

Advisory Council on Intellectual Property(ACIP); Australia                                                          9 June 2006
independent body advising the Federal Minister for Industry, Tourism & Resources on intellectual property & the strategic administration of IP Australia;

ALIA copyright pages  Australian Library & Information Association                                                  15 July 2010

Alternative Medicine Foundation                                                                                                 29 February 2008
This public site provides free access to 30 herbs; Intellectual Property & Citation Information - HerbMed®  interactive, electronic herbal database;

Arts Law Centre of Australia                                                                                                     25 September 2003
national community legal centre for arts in Australia; Low Budget Film/Video Agreements, Visual Arts & Crafts Agreements; Arts Insurance Handbook 2nd Edition.2005; Image Reproduction for Publication; Music Licence for Film; Film Location Release; Artwork Reproduction Licence for Film; Photographer Model's Release; Interviewee's Release; Performer's Release; Venue Hire; telephone advice queue;

Associated Press build news registry to protect content                                                                26 July 2009

AusPat comprehensive, online Australian patent search tool free of charge(IP Australia)                28 May 2011
AusPat now provides fulltext searching of Australian patent records since 1904; records prior to 1920 can only be accessed through searching application number &/or full specifications as no other data was captured during that era - relevant details can be traced via Australian official journal of patents. Annual index, 1904 - 1920; Backcapture project converted published patent specifications from 1904 to 2008 converting them to a consistent, digital & text searchable format; Since 1904 a number of mediums have been used to record & store specifications: Books(1904-77), Microfiche (1978-98) & CD (1999-2008); AU B documents from 1986 and all documents from 1998 are bookmarked so that a text based search can be conducted on the whole patent specification, or individual elements such as the abstract or claims only.  These records are available in high quality Optical Character Recognition(OCR) providing accuracy levels of between 99.4 – 99.6%; User guide; FAQ; System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0(or other modern browser), Adobe Acrobat 6.0+, Cookies enabled, minimum screen size of 800 x 600, To take advantage of all the features of AusPat you’ll also need to have JavaScript;

Australian Digital Alliance (ADA)                                                                                                25 January 2011
ADA members include schools, universities, consumer groups, major cultural institutions, IT companies, scientific & other research organisations, libraries & individuals united by the common theme that intellectual property laws must strike a balance between providing appropriate incentives for creativity against reasonable & equitable access to knowledge; open email discussion list publicises ADA Intellectual Property Wrap-Up newsletter, relevant events, & provides information on upcoming issues such as calls for submissions; links;

Australian Law Reform Commission inquiry into copyright: draft terms of reference                     30 March 2012

Australian Telephone book copyright ruling                                                                                   8 September 2011
Telstra calls on Attorney-General over copyright (Sydney morning herald, 8 Sept 2011) - copyright as defined by Australia's Copyright Act existed in literary work created by an individual or individuals. Given that, argument about whether or not the Yellow and White Pages directories were literary works - the product of individual intellectual effort - was overrun by the fact that Sensis had taken individuals out of the production process; Attorney-General said last year that copyright law reform was on the government's agenda, but political focus is online video & music piracy, & so far there has been no sign that Australia is considering moving towards the system in Europe, where copyright protection has been extended to electronic & non-electronic databases for a decade and a half, or the copyright regime in UK, where information produced using a computer is deemed to be produced by the person that operates the computer;

Authors entering the public domain in 2012                                                                                        14 December 2011
Public Domain Day, 1st January 2012, website from COMMUNIA European Thematic Network on Digital Public Domain includes list of authors whose published work is to enter the public domain on that day, according to the “70 year rule”; 2010 list; 2011 list;

Automated Content Access Protocol(ACAP) standard for publishers 
Seeking to contribute to the development of methods to manage copyright on the scale of the Internet without human intervention & without recourse to lawyers;

Balanced Value                                                                                                                              8 July 2006
judgments in design & specification incorporating issues of functional performance with society, environment & economics(sustainability ‘triple bottom-line’); BV Toolbox & BV Framework are currently free to use; aimed at knowledgeable practitioners;

Blog, Podcast, Vodcast & Wiki Copyright Guide for Australia                                                        1 July 2009

BountyQuest pays people for doing the research to find prior art that will invalidate patent claims    27 February 2002

British designs database                                                                                                                  4 September 2003
search by number, by enhanced Locarno, proprietor, or by combination; display 32(on request up to 128) images at once

British Library’s Business & IP Centre                                                                                             4 May 2006
supporting start-ups, small & medium-sized enterprises(SMEs); free access to 40 databases saving subscriptions; current company, business & industry information & financial news; UK's most comprehensive collection of business & intellectual property(IP) information; 50m patent specifications, trade mark & registered design databases, market research reports, company reports, trade journals, business directories & guides to legal information & government publications; how-to guides e.g.writing a business plan. Many resources available in hard copy only; Information experts;

Canadian Patents, 1869-1894                                                                                                         19 May 2006
14000+ patents with digitised images registered in Canada by Canadian citizens or residents. patents issued to non-Canadians & non-residents are not included;

Catalog of Copyright Entries(US Copyright Office)                                                                          25 August 2006
copyright registrations checked, renewed or in public domain(published before 1964 in US) but not registered & renewed in time expire into public domain - some material first published abroad may be exempt from renewal requirements); see who registered copyright & coverage -  contact copyright owner for permission to put an old work online; lodge pointers to electronic copies of renewal registrations, & textual registrations;

CC Zero (Creative Commons) See also Public Domain Mark(PDM)                                             25 October 2010
introduced in March 2009, a universal waiver of copyright that can be used when copyright owners want to permanently surrender rights;

CenSEARCHip                                                                                                                                8 July 2008
explore censorship on different versions of Yahoo! & Google Visual comparison of search results: a censorship case study

Chilling Effects Clearinghouse                                                                                                          16 April 2005
monitors allegations of copyright infringement against webmasters, bloggers & online publishers under Digital Millennium Copyright Act(DMCA)-1998

Code of best practices in fair use for academic & research libraries Assoc.of Research Libraries(US)  24 February 2012

Code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education                                                           24 January 2009

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network: CKAN                                                                     9 December 2008
registry of open knowledge packages & projects(& a few closed ones); search; register;

Copyleft making program(or other work) & all modified & extended versions free                       5 May 2012
Black Duck analyzes decline of Copyleft licenses: revious dominance of strong copyleft licenses was achieved & maintained to a significant degree due to vendor-led open source projects & ongoing shift away from projects controlled by a single vendor toward community projects was in part driving a shift towards more permissive non-copyleft licenses;      

Copyright & the real time microblog phenom                                                                              24 May 2009

Copyright Agency Limited (CAL)  Australian copyright management company                                20 November 2003
bridge between creators & users of copyright material; represents authors, journalists, visual artists, photographers & newspaper, magazine & book publishers as their non-exclusive agent to license copying of their works to general community

Copyright & Content: Sharing in a Digital Age                                                                                 23 July 2009
ACAP protocol allows machines to automatically understand terms &d conditions of content re-use over the Internet; Michael Carroll on Copyright & Open Access(vimeo);

Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for US libraries, archives, & Museums (2009)            31 October 2009

Copyright Clearance Center(US) not-for-profit organization & leading provider of licensing solutions  31 August 2006
managing publishing rights Rightsphere(price ranges from $70000 to $145000 depending on size of customer organization, no. of end users & geographical reach of company; unambiguous answer to user's question "What am I allowed to do with this content"; advisory service helps manage rights from multiple sources; Currently only handles text-based content; 3 Mar 2011: CCC integrates Rights Delivery Platform on Copyright.com allowing one-stop access to rights previously available only through RightsLink installations. For the first time, customers can order reprints from Elsevier, New York Times, Springer, Emerald Publishing Group, Economist Newspaper Ltd., American Institute of Physics, American Chemical Society, American Society of Microbiology & American Association for the Advancement of Science & can also obtain permissions from major Science, Technology & Medicine(STM), university, & news publishers including Nature, Oxford University Press & John Wiley & Sons directly on copyright.com; Top 10 copyright pitfalls in today's business environment; Guidelines & best practice for copyright compliance in today's business environment(CCC white paper, March 2011);

Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals(D-Lib Magazine)                                        21 February 2006

Copyright Law of US                                                                                                                  29 November 2007
Title 17 of US Code displayable in a browser & PDF; Appendices contain various copyright laws,including Copyright Act of 1976, Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, Uruguay Round Agreements Act of 1994,  copyright-related sections of Titles 18(Crimes), 28 (Judicial Procedure) & 44(Public Printing); Searching through site search engine.

Copyright Records(LOCIS)                                                                                                       21 December 2006
database of copyright records, searchable by documents, serials, and multimedia(including books, music, films, sound recordings, maps, software, photos, & art; See also Virtual copyright card catalog project (Library of Congress)

Copyright Renewal Database(US)                                                                                             9 August 2007
searchable copyright renewal records received by US Copyright Office between 1950 & 1992 for books published in US between 1923 & 1963; ONLY US Class A(book) renewals; title, author, registration & renewal dates, registration number, renewal ID, & renewing entity; Searchable, or browseby year, title, author;

Copyright status service(National Library of Australia)                                                                 18 June 2008
Copyright Status calculator(Rights Management project) uses a set of rules based on Australian copyright law, & metadata from the catalogue record, to determine whether a work is in copyright;

Creative Commons  Public domain tools                                                                                 16 May 2002
drafts custom licenses for authors, musicians, content creators to provide free online access to their works & retain enforceable rights. Authors indicate rights they wish to retain in checkboxes; Software assembles a licensing agreement assigning remaining rights to public domain; creators mark online work with icon link to licensing agreement, for users to read in lay or legalistic versions; conservancy for content it licenses; beta search engine (integrated into Firefox 1.0) indexes 1m web pages but will soon index 5m CC licensed pages; Search with Yahoo or search engine powered by Nutch.org open source technology; find content published by authors that let you share or reuse, under certain conditions; Creative Commons Search Tools (Searcher July 2005); The Freesound Project - audio samples & snippets under CC license for re-use with attribution; keyword or tag search for types of sound; FlickrCC search engine for photos on Flickr under CC license; search word(s) in picture's title, tags or description; CC & Copyright; CcSearch for photos, music, text, books, educational material, etc free to share or build upon utilizing CC enabled search services at Google, Yahoo!, Flickr & via Firefox web browser; CC licensing for Australian Bureau of Statistics data; RDF(Resource Description Framework)-enhanced search; Flickr holds largest repository of CC-licensed images, but users opt to license their images under the most restrictive CC license, only 24% allow commercial use of their images, & 12% choose the BY license for free sharing & remixing with author attribution; CC Zero: new tool to push work immediately into Public Domain has 3 components to it:1. legal code developed applicable with laws worldwide; 2. human readable text explaining how CC Zero works(FAQ); 3. machine readable code making content easily discoverable; Creative Commons Licences briefing paper to provide JISC-funded projects, content creators & higher(HE) & further education(FE) institutions, with information to judge when open content licences, particularly CC licences, are appropriate; (27 May 2009) Yahoo Image Search update allows users to filter search results by CC license; Find CC images with Google Images; CC launches CC OpenID profile $50 annual membership to use your network log-in as your OpenID decentralized digital identity for easy access to networks; Aug 09 Google Books offers CC licensing; ccMixter samples & remixes that are released under CC licenses & dig.ccMixter(beta) music discovery: theme music for a podcast, background music for a YouTube video, etc; 16 October 2010: Public Domain Mark tool enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled to communicates that status to the public & allow easy discovery on Internet; 25 Oct 2010: new Public Domain Mark(PDM) differs from CC0(CC Zero) introduced in March 2009, a universal waiver of copyright that can be used when copyright owners want to permanently surrender rights. PDM may be used by anyone, not only a copyright owner, who has identified a work free of copyright restrictions. Primarily works eligible will be very old works passed out of copyright. While the new mark has no legal standing it is an assertion that a work is in the public domain & the guidelines are there to ensure that the assertion is well-considered; Open Attribute add-on for Firefox & Chrome produces a correctly-formatted attribution for CC-licensed work; Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search finds photos, music, text, books, educational material free to share or build upon, "some clearly marked rights reserved", others in public domain; 1 May 2011: National & State Libraries Australasia(NSLA) Position Statement on Creative Commons; 5 Jun 2011: YouTube goes CC!; 7 Oct 2011: 200m+ Flickr CC photos - browse & search by license; 7 Oct 2011: Freesound collaborative database of 120000 CC licensed sounds sounds; Freesound; 1 Dec 2011: 10 CC projects:  5 give content to see & share for  price of a credit byline, 5 Open Educational Resources(OER) for free use & reuse with a CC or GNU license to explain use & distribution; 2 Feb 2012: search.creativecommons.org is no search engine, it accesses search services provided by independent organizations & has no control over results returned, they may not have a CC license & you should verify work is CC licensed by following the link.There is no registration to use a CC license & CC has no way to determine what has & hasn't been placed under CC license terms. If in doubt contact copyright holder direct, or site where content was found; 20 Feb 2012: Vimeo video sharing adds CC browse & search capabilities; 16 May 2012: Browse Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo;

Creative Commons Australia Australian derivative project of international Creative Commons      21 November 2009

Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License                                                                            19 August 2010
You’re free to use, with attribution, the sound effects in any non-commercial setting — songs, videos, etc.

Creative Heritage Project: Strategic Management of IP Rights & Interests                                  23 May 2009
World Intellectual Property Organization specialized UN agency established in the 1960s developing a balanced & accessible international intellectual property system to reward creativity, stimulate innovation & contributes to economic development while safeguarding  public interest; IP & Handicrafts explains how traditional handicrafts can be at risk of misappropriation & imitation & what IP tools exist to protect them;

Cultural Collections, Creators & Copyright:Museums, Galleries,
Libraries & Archives & Australia's digital heritage 2007-2009                                                15 February 2008
current & emerging uses of digital collections; Centre for Media & Communications Law(U of Melbourne CMCL) researchers will interview creators & representatives of cultural institutions to identify & explore copyright issues facing them in the digital environment;

Cultural Institutions, Law & Indigenous Knowledge:
A Legal Primer on the Management of Australian Indigenous Collections                                    8 July 2010

Democratizing Innovation by Eric Von Hippel(fully downloadable PDF)                                     24 July 2006
user-centered innovation process in contrast to traditional model in which products & services are developed for manufacturers by leveraging copyright, patents, DRM & other protections mechanisms to prevent imitators & competitors taking advantage of their investments;

Derwent Web of SoftwareSM                                                                                                  21 December 2002
web-based repository of information needed to launch a global software or business methods prior-art search; patents, journal articles, technical publications & disclosures, along with links to intellectually selected & indexed websites.

Design Directory                                                                                                                       18 March 2005
International design links database - book, floral, advertising, landscape, print, etc.-- links to articles, awards, forums, education, events, galleries, organizations,

Design News., Nov. 2006-                                                                                                       15 September 2007
design events & trends primarily on British & Continental scenes; "Design Disciplines" for design trends in furniture, graphics, interiors, & packaging; job postings & suggestions for those going on the job market; news alerts via email.

Developing a comprehensive patent related information retrieval tool                                           19 February 2011
Illinois Public Law & Legal Theory Research Papers Series No. 10-12; February 2011; proposes a framework to access information across 2 domains – patents & court cases, designed to boost value of a set of patents based on information available in court cases by identifying & cross-referencing mutual information in the 2 domains;

Digital Copyright Exchange(DCE) feasibility study                                                                         9 April 2012

Digital Rights Management Australia                                                                                   24 December 2008
Aquire a licence of digital rights from the rights owner or get a licence from one of the collecting societies that represent digital rights owners: Copyright Agency Limited(CAL) for literary work, Viscopy for fine art, (CAL) for artistic works such as plans, diagrams & illustrations, Screenrights for audio-visual material such as films & television programs, APRA/AMCOS for compositions, & either PPCA or individual record company owners for sound recordings; Orphan works are in copyright but the copyright owner cannot be found; 8 Apr 2012: ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) Treaty provokes tensions over rights:

Direct Licensing Guidelines: Sound Recordings(Arts Law Centre of Australia)                             19 April 2008

The Discography: legal encyclopedia of popular music                                                                22 January 2011
1300 entries covering 2400 court opinions(30000+ pieces of data) spanning almost 200 years, fully summarized & searchable by numerous variables, featuring nearly every artist, covering copyrights & contracts, trusts, torts etc; Blog; legal music News; record labels' suits against downloaders & downloadees were excluded as they occupy the highest priority for commentator Ray Beckerman's Recording Industry vs. The People;

Disruptive Scholarship: An idea whose time has come: (Re)use /
(Re)mix / (Re)new - 3rd International Plagiarism Conference                                                      7 July 2008

DOepatents                                                                                                                              3 July 2008
US Department of Energy's central collection of patent information demonstrates contribution to scientific progress since 1940s; 24000+ patents includes 6800+ owned exclusively by DOE & patents sponsored & supported by DOE through grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or similar type of funding mechanism; You can explore DOepatents through the Science Accelerator Basic or Advanced Search;

Duplication Found in Science Publications                                                                                 26 January 2008

eBooks: changing copyright law for e-books, librarians need to persuade politicians across Europe 26 July 2011

Economics of copyright levies on hardware        Why levies don’t solve the copyright problem     18 May 2011

Eco-Patent Commons(World Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD) & IBM)    21 April 2008
free patents for eco-innovation; 

EzTextiles.com digital library of royalty-free, production-ready textile designs                             26 June 2010
apparel, textile, home fashion, accessories & other textile-related industries; 25m+ fully editable woven plaids & stripes, prints, & knit designs. Other patterns & designs such as vintage, graphics, photography, & textures forthcoming; tools to apply patterns & designs on any of 500+ provided sketches & product photos to visualize & evaluate; Subscribers can also visualize ET patterns & designs on their own sketches or photos by uploading their custom images to a secure folder in the system; OK for most PC & Mac internet browsers;

eIFL Handbook on Copyright & Related Issues(Electronic Information for Libraries)              17 December 2009
10 Mar 2012: eIFL Statement of principles on copyright & related issues;

Emerging Legal Issues in the Collection & Dissemination of Internet-Sourced Research Data:
Part II, Tort Law Issues Involving Defamation1 by Tomas A. Lipinski
(in International Journal of Internet Research Ethics)                                                        3 September 2010
2nd in a series of 4 articles examining the possible basis for legal liability of researchers who use Internet in collection of research data; examines potential legal issues associated with protocols of ethnographers who use listserv, discussion board, blog, chat room & other sorts of web or Internet-based postings as source of their data; Part I, Basic Tort Law Issues & Negligence,  Part III, Part IV;

End-User patent searching using Open Access sources (Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, Winter 2010)

Engines of Our Ingenuity public radio(U of Houston)                                                                  13 December 2008
find the latest episode for transcript & link, photos & links to further information, diagrams & charts; podcasts of recent episodes; 2000+ episodes over 20 years;

European Patent Office                                                                                                              27 February 2002

European Patent Office's esp@cenet                                                                                          7 February 2003
25 Dec 2010: Google to machine translate patents: 1.5m+ into 29 languages under agreement with European Patent Office(EPO);

Fair Use Network                                                                                                                    21 June 2008
Recently Associated Press(AP) asked Drudge Retort website to remove items that contained quotations from their articles & set off a flurry of commentary from legal experts, media commentators; AP consulting with organizations including Media Bloggers Association;

File sharing See also Peer to peer file sharing
File-sharing & copyright(Harvard Business School, May 2009);

Finding Copyrights & Trademarks for Free from CyberSkeptic's Guide to Internet Research, June 2005

Finding dates of death for Australian artists                                                                           29 November 2010
Australasian Art Obituaries Index hosted by National Gallery; Viscopy(Visual Arts Copyright Collecting Agency) is used if item is in copyright & client might have to pay a fee if artist is a member, as also for members of Australian Cartoonists Association;

Flexible dealing                                                                                                                        21 May 2009
Users guide to the Flexible Dealing Provision for Libraries, Educational Institutions & Cultural Institutions (Australian Libraries Copyright Committee & Australian Digital Alliance);

Free Patents Online  (27 Apr 2011: 1000+ journals of non-patent literature added)                      17 February 2005
free PDF downloads; 100+ gigabytes; fulltext US patents numbers 4000000 to 6857132 (most before 4m exist only as images, not searchable text);  updated; 2+ terabytes (terabyte = 1000 gigabytes) of images; USPTO advanced syntax; Eco-Patent Commons: free patents for eco-innovation(World Business Council for Sustainable Development(WBCSD) & IBM); advanced search techniques - word stemming, proximity searching, relevancy ranking & search term weighting; highly-compressed PDF format for fast downloading, with or without searchable text; Plaque It! function allows inventors or companies to showcase their intellectual property for use on web sites, blogs, social networking sites, linking to fulltext; now includes SureChem gateway for chemical patent search on fulltext USPTO, EPO & WO for structure & keyword searches on 9m+ compounds, including prophetic & excluded compounds & other structures not covered by manually constructed databases; Chemical structure searches via keywords, SMILES(Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) strings, or graphically drawn compound using java-based drawing tools performed against a normalized database of chemical names & structures; subscription SureChem Pro provides extra data and search capabilities - data export, alerts & saved searches, under a secure(SSL) web connection. Structure data is updated within 24 hours of new patents being published; G to machine translate patents: 1.5m+ into 29 languages under agreement with European Patent Office(EPO); 27 Apr 2011: Non-patent literature has been added: 1000 journals, most with fulltext & covering a wide range of subject matter; check the "Non-patent Literature" box when you search!;

Global Brand Database(WIPO) free brand-related searches across multiple collections          9 April 2011
currently  640000+ records from 3 WIPO databases – international trademarks registered under Madrid system for international registration of marks; appellations of origin registered under Lisbon system for international registration of appellations of origin; & armorial bearings, flags & other state emblems as well as names, abbreviations & emblems of intergovernmental organizations protected under Article 6ter of Paris Convention for Protection of Industrial Property; service will be integrated into WIPO GOLD for quick & easy on-line access to a broad collection of searchable IP data & tools relating to, for example, technology, brands, designs, statistics, WIPO standards, & international classification systems;

Google Books settlement & privacy FAQ                                                                                  24 July 2009
Google Book Settlement & the Fair Use Counterfactual(Matthew Sag, DePaul U - College of Law);

Google Patent Search                                                                                                              15 December 2006
7m US patents by keyword, patent number, inventor, filing date; zoom scanned image of patent pages; uses different signals to evaluate how relevant each patent is to a user's query & determines results algorithmically; OCR mis-readings/spellings uncorrected; 1 May 2011: Patents now included in Google search sidebar;

Google Privacy Channel on YouTube tips videos & feed                                                          31 December 2007
2007 review on privacy protections across the Internet; tips to manage your own information for Google products including Picasa for photos, Street View in Google Maps, Blogger, your Google Web History;

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property                                                                                     23 January 2007
Andrew Gowers December 2005 independent review into UK Intellectual Property Framework prompted by Chancellor of the Exchequer;

Hague scheme for Designs                                                                                                        4 September 2003
since 1925; citizens or residents of member states single registration with effect in designated member states(continental Europe); 1934 Act registrations merely listed designs without illustration; 1960 Act registrations give drawing, & are numbered in format DM/63247; search by English or French title words, proprietor or by Locarno classification; Britain is intending to join scheme.

How to manage copyrighted content across social media outlets                                                  2 November 2007

How to search & credit properly-licensed photos on Flickr[Firefox]                                            11 November 2010

ICO Global Patent Database                                                                                                      17 February 2005
record: billable time, allocated patent costs, record of all search queries, personal notes & search activities; credit card payments or annual subscription;

Idea Trade Network(ITN)                                                                                                        29 December 2007
global forum for companies & individuals to license, buy or sell ideas, new inventions as well as patents & trademarks. A division of Global Commerce & Communication, Inc(GCCI);

Illumin8 new subscription technology & patent search(Engineering Village, Elsevier)                     14 May 2011
assortment of 1000 online & offline news resources, 5m technological & scientific reviews, 40m assignments & documents, 1800 science journals, 1000 scientific magazines, 4000 marketers & 23m patents compiled from 5 international patent offices; EXPLORE who, what & how of opportunity space through categorized results & interactive data charts; EVALUATE to gauge whether to pursue a technology or approach by highlighting potential problems & benefits; COMPARE 2 chosen topics based on trends in volumes of published records, relevant organizations, people, products & approaches; Product fact sheet;

Indigenous Intellectual Property Toolkit Project (Australia)                                                          30 July 2010
Cultural Ministers Council, through the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts engaged Arts Law Centre of Australia (Arts Law) to effectively increase awareness of IIP and promote best practice via Toolkit objectives: promote greater links between business & Indigenous communities in relation to IIP matters; raise greater awareness among Indigenous communities, consumers & commercial operators of the need to protect IIP; enhance coordination of existing networks of Indigenous & non-Indigenous organisations working in IIP; will be delivered in progressive stages over 3 years; development of an Indigenous Portal in conjunction with Arts Law website; provide user friendly information, podcasts & streaming of audiovisual resources; Sound recordings for radio air play in English & in language, a DVD about IIP; a series of posters, articles & case studies on the website & distributed throughout Indigenous communities; workshops to provide training on IIP to Indigenous art centres & artists throughout Australia;

Institute of Patent & Trade Mark Attorneys of Australia(IPTA)                                                   17 September 2009

Intellectual Property Digital Library                                                                                             14 April 2007
access to intellectual property data collections including PCT(Patents), Madrid(Trademarks), Hague(Industrial Designs), Article 6(State Emblems, Official Hallmarks, Emblems of Intergovernmental Organizations) hosted by World Intellectual Property Organization; Statistics, Data & Indicators page links on patents, trademarks, designs, microorganisms; Frequent users maintain search query history across connections with free user account;

Intellectual Property Library ( Manning & Napier) free international database                               11 September 2010
 of patent & patent-related publications including international patent databases as well as carefully selected non-patent literature including our own Prior Art Database; fulltext & semantic search; free access to People's Republic of China SIPO patent data

Intellectual Property Office(IPO) key UK agency for patent verification & protection                   13 February 2010
guidance on trade marks, designs & copyright; comprehensive coverage for patents: About patents; Applying for a patent; Resolving disputes; Patents forms & fees; Online Patent Services; Managing your patents; Withdrawing patent applications; Other people's patents; Patent informatics; Online Patent Services allows electronic applications; search tools to establish status of an application - By Patent Number, By Supplementary Protection Certificate number, By Publication (newly published, granted or corrected patents, published weekly), Using the European Patent Office's database Esp@cenet. This uses keywords & European or International Patent classification schemes among the means of searching, valuable if seeking an overview of a field rather than a specific patent. Note also that, although this entry point is in the name GB Esp@acenet, there is a drop-down menu of databases which permits searching within individual European countries, across Europe, & WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation); news briefs, IP on the net links to other IP sites,  free Patents Journal published weekly can be downloaded in entirety or by section(e.g. UK applications for patents filed, EP/UK patents, etc);

Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia(IPRIA)                                                         17 September 2009
IPRIA's objectives: support & generate development of high-level public policy in relation to IP issues; optimise protection, management & exploitation of IP by Australian stakeholders, including research institutions, public & private sector interests; help create an informed environment for, & contribute to, on-going public debate in Australia about IP issues & related matters, including innovation policy & economic growth; Publications; Research; Other Sites of Interest;

Intellogist Resource Finder                                                                                                        12 October 2011
granular subject directory for scientific & technical databases, publications, websites displays search systems, databases, publications, websites grouped by technology area; for technology area & sub-topics see category definitions; Intellogist blog - patent search questions & expert answers from patent professionals from Landon IP global provider of patent search, analysis, information, & translation services; patent analytics; global information retrieval; patent, legal, & technical translations; headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia near USPTO;

International Patent Classification                                                                                              13 February 2006
IPC R classification levels: Advanced codes updated every 3m. Core codes every 3 years(IPC 7 updates 5 yearly); IPC R applied to patent backfile(granted patents & published applications issued prior to January 3, 2006) of 54 m documents at European PatentOffice to eliminate need to search(IPC 1 — IPC 7) for comprehensive, historical research; several new patent classification categories introduced including: Traditional medicine based on use of plants - main group A61K 36/00; Combinatorial chemistry - subclass C40B; Business methods - subclass G06Q; Natural language search in the reformed IPC - TACSY version 1.1.0.33;

Inventables - Material & Technology Marketplace                                                                        26 March 2010
for buyers(engineers, designers, marketers) to find vendors that manufacture materials & technologies

InventConnect                                                                                                                          21 May 2006
Australian business assists to research, assess & evaluate Australian & International manufacturers & markets; develop, protect, promote & market inventions for commercialisation of early stage products & other technologies;

Inventors Handbook - UK Resources  & Inventors Handbook (US)                                         25 June 2002

IP Advantage(WIPO) database                                                                                                  27 September 2010
fully searchable one-stop gateway to case study material available on WIPO’s website; experiences of inventors, creators, entrepreneurs, & researchers from 48 countries; searches by type of IP, object of protection(inventions, commercial names, artistic works) &/or focus of case study(branding, IP management, R&D, etc);

IPEXL Search (Intellectual Property Exchange)                                                                           1 November 2008
 intellectual property search engine - all in one search for Asian patents, an IPC code search & allows for native language searching in Chinese; What if I could perform my patentability search all in one place?;

IP Search Engine                                                                                                                        29 May 2010

IP Toolkit(Canada) legal rights from intellectual activity in industrial, scientific, literary & artistic fields   1 February 2005

Joint Guidelines on Copyright & Academic Research                                                                       3 July 2008
for researchers & publishers in Humanities & Social Sciences. Published jointly by British Academy & Publishers Association;

JOPAL(Journal of Patent Associated Literature)                                                                            26 August 2005
Search articles in leading scientific & technical periodicals since 1981 by keyword, Boolean, phrase & field searching, some proximity searching;

Keeping Within the Law(KWtL)                                                                                                7 August 2008
Facet Publishing arm of CILIP 24/7 access to up-to-date info on all aspects of information law; 1600 searchable resources; subscriber only monthly newsletter, news alerts & blog

Legal deposit: IFLA Statement on Legal Deposit                                                                    18 May 2012
outlines benefits of & considerations for print & electronic legal deposit whether in a mandatory or voluntary system of legal deposit. IFLA believes that legal deposit is critical for preservation of & access to a nation’s documentary heritage; IFLA is working collaboratively to build a legal, technical & professional base that enables libraries to play a major role in collecting, preserving, & offering wide access to all types of physical & digital materials;

Legal Issues for Bloggers                                                                                                             7 December 2007

Library of Congress - The Section 108 Study Group                                                                    4 January 2007
select committee of copyright experts convened by Library of Congress to update for digital world Copyright Act's balance between rights of creators & copyright owners & needs of libraries & archives; new copyright search engine allows searching by title, name, keyword, and registration or document number; tutorial;

Locarno Classification(for Designs)                                                                                             4 September 2003
began in 1968 to help those searching particular subject areas such as furniture, lighting or soft toys; used by European countries but less popular elsewhere: Canada, USA, Japan & Korea do not use it.

Low-profile Regs you don't want to miss: The re-use of Public Sector information Regulations 2005  30 March 2006
Regulations from European Directive on the re-use of Public Sector Information, approved by the Council of Ministers on 27 October 2003. The Directive's main objective is to promote the re-use of information held by public sector organisations;

Madrid Express Database of TradeMarks World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO)        20 November 2003
international registrations currently in force or expired within past six months. Search criteria include international registration number, holder name, representative, mark, Vienna Classification, Nice Classification, goods & services(English or French), office of origin, basic application number, basic registration number & designated contracting parties; create a free account; save your queries.

Making copoyright work better online(Google Public Policy Blog)                                                    6 December 2010
We’ll act on reliable copyright takedown requests within 24 hours; We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete; We will improve our AdSense anti-piracy review; We will experiment to make authorised preview content more readily accessible in search results; Content ID audio & video matching tools give rights holders fine-grained controls for managing their content;

Markenbusiness                                                                                                                           5 November 2004
free metasearch of trademark databases worldwide; USA, Canada, Mexico, WIPO International Trademarks, European Community Trademarks; no advanced search; Click on one of 18 collection for purchasing information; 

MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program                                                                     30 June 2006
database identifies locations & contents of invention-related archival materials in US; browse by subject or search; Lemelson Center for Study of Invention & Innovation, Smithsonian National Museum of American History;

Minesoft's PatentOrder                                                                                                                23 April 2009
machine translations of Chinese patent documents, 1986-; Japanese documents, 1993- & access to Korean PDFs in original language;

Next-generation federated search: critical for intellectual property research(Deep Web Technologies)  13 July 2009

Nice Classification for Trade Marks                                                                                             27 June 2003

Online guide to understanding Digital Rights Management(DRM)                                                  9 September 2005
EFF(Electronic Frontier Foundation) online guide to DRM & End User License Agreements(EULAs) imposed by record labels & online music services(iTunes); information about 4 alternative online music services which sell unrestricted  DRM-free music files;

Open Book Alliance: Our Principles For the Mass Digitization of Books:
Protecting Innovation, Competition, & The Public Interest                                                               20 September 2009

Orphan Works                                                                                                                            18 March 2005
Copyright Office considering issue of orphan works, whose copyright owners are impossible to locate, merits legislative, regulatory or other solution; Orphan Works Statement Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers & Professional/Scholarly Division of Association of American Publishers "private market solutions almost always to be preferred, since they are most likely to provide tangible results; Users who conduct such a search where the owner of such a work is later identified, will be subject only to a normal license fee & will not be subject to any statutory, punitive or special fees or damages"; Safe Harbor Provisions for the Use of Orphan Works  from ALPSP, STM & PSP Div of Assoc of American Publishers; In from the Cold: An assessment of the scope of ‘Orphan Works’ & its impact on the delivery of services to the public(UK Strategic Content Alliance & the Collections Trust ) - Orphan works in museums, archives, libraries & universities; photographs, recordings, texts, ephemera invisible because of © restrictions; 16000 years to trace rights holders of 13m works from 500 organisations surveyed; Matt Dawes, Setting the Orphans Free( Australian Law Librarian, Vol 18 No 4 2010, 289): To use flexible dealing for orphan works, cultural institutions should develop an industry best practice so that after conducting reasonable enquiries, a user is permitted to conclude that a work is an orphan & that using it will not conflict with a normal exploitation or unreasonably prejudice any copyright holder; 8 Apr 2011: SBS(Australia) Statement/Policy on Orphan Works; 1 May 2011: National & State Libraries Australasia(NSLA) Position Statement on Reasonable Search for Orphan Works, & NSLA Guidelines for Reasonable Search for Orphan Works; 22 May 2011: U of Michigan(UM) Library’s Copyright Office launch HathiTrust-funded research project to identify in-copyright orphan works in HathiTrust’s vast digital repository; 26 Sept 2011: European Commission proposes law allowing 'orphan works' to be available online "A common approach to determine orphan status & permitted uses is necessary to ensure legal certainty in internal market with respect to by libraries, museums, educational establishments, archives, film heritage institutions & public service broadcasting organisations"; 28 Oct 2011: COMMUNIA International Association policy paper analyzes European Commission’s proposed directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works(COM/2011/0289) in light of its effects on Public Domain; 28 Nov 2011: WIPO meeting: European v American interpretations of Orphan Works; 21 Dec 2011: New White Paper(first in series from Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project): Orphan works: definitional issues; 18 May 2012: IFLA Statement on Orphan Works encompasses issues to be considered in promoting  public interest in access to such works while protecting owner’s rights & countering risk of infringement, particularly applicable for mass digitisation . IFLA is working collaboratively to build a legal, technical & professional base that enables libraries to play a major role in collecting, preserving, & offering wide access to all types of physical & digital materials;

Patent & Trademark Depository Library Association                                                                 6 July 2007
established September 1983 to discover interests, needs, opinions, goals of  Patent & Trademark Depository Libraries(PTDLs), & advise US Patent & Trademark Office(USPTO) for benefit of PTDLs & users, & assist USPTO planning & implementing services for PTDL's, their staffs & patrons;

Patent Cafe  subscription patent database                                                                                  12 May 2004
US$2750/yr; (8 May 2006) research & IP management solution ICO Suite V.2 includes ICO Portfolio Manager, ICO Competitive Patent Alerts, patent team Blog collaboration, patent landscape charts, statistical qualitative analysis patent reports;    

PatentCites(Scopus)  tracks primary research applied in patents                                               29 September 2006
identifies citations from patent sources that cite Scopus articles on Abstract & References page & links directly to source items; US Patent Office, European Patent Office & World Intellectual Property Organization sources updated daily; institutional subscription;

Patent info on the 'Net free & subscription                                                                                5 May 2003

Patent Information Users Group, Inc(PIUG)                                                                            21 December 2002
International Society for Patent Information; not-for-profit; Selected Patent & Intellectual Property Sites; Databases & search services; Discussion List; 

Patent Lens(Australia)                                                                                                             27 December 2007
Center for Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture(CAMBIA); FAQ; searchable fulltext database of 8.3m+ patents & patent applications from WIPO, USPTO, EPO, & IP Australia uploaded weekly; incorporates INPADOC bibliographic data from 70+ countries & legal status data from 40+ patent authorities; Quick keyword search box or patent number & dropdown menu of 4 agencies; toggle stemming, sort by relevance score, patent number, filing date or publication date; Structured field searches e.g., title, abstract, inventor, assignee; boolean &/or; filter results by publication or filing date, predicted expiration date for US. Stemming, item number & sorting; Expert search Boolean options, restrict by date, filtering, stemming, display & sorting options; BLAST National Center for Biotechnology Information’s technology to search protein & DNA sequences listed in US patents & published patent applications; RSS feed search updates, IP news, discussion forums , & “technology landscapes”;

Patent Librarian                                                                                                                      1 February 2006
exchange ideas & information related to documentation, search tools & techniques, free & commercial databases, patent statistics, training tips, USPTO information dissemination policy; Patent Explanation Video used by US judges;

Patent Pal                                                                                                                               18 January 2008
free resource contains 20+ unique patent related searches including Google Patents, FreePatentsOnline, Esp@cenet, WIPO, Pat2Pdf, the MPEP; links to other resources for US & foreign patent practice; RSS feeds from popular patent related blogs;

PatentPoints free vertcal file system  based on Augmentext system     review                              10 August 2011
covers news (Oracle versus Google), resources (Pat2PDF.org), & commentary (open source information) related to impact of intellectual property on innovators & organizations;

Patent Research                                                                                                                         14 October 2010
Western perspective, but 1/2+  applications filed worldwide every year are written in Japanese, Chinese or Korean; links from JPO’s Industrial Property Digital Library to patent offices of countries like China & Korea as well as WIPO and EPO; Dialog 4-part course Developing Patent Research Expertise PDFs: Patent Research Basics, Patent Families & Legal Status, Prior Art Searching for Patent Prosecution, Patent Research for Competitive Intelligence;

Patents 101: basic introduction topatent searching for non-patent searchers (FUMSI subscibers only for now)  17 February 2011

Patents.com                                                                                                                             29 August 2008
index of 450m+ patents in 15 languages; Novelty Search determines if an invention is unique & novel before time & money are spent to file; Infringement or Clearance Search determines if planned product or service might infringe another's patent; finds patents or other prior art to determine or assess validity of patent; Validity SearchState of the Art Search provides most recent patents & applications related to topic or field as a means of technology research;

Patents & Patent Searching                                                                                                   31 May 2003

Patents & the regress of useful Arts(Columbia Science & Technology Law Review, Vol. 10, 2009)
tested hypothesis with game called PatentSim, online simulation of a pure patent system, a patent-free commons system, & a mixed system; first year university students asked to license, assign, infringe, & enforce patents;  

Patentscope: search international & national patent collections(WIPO)                                    10 April 2011

Patent Searching                                                                                                                     6 July 2004
See also  Google Patent Search; FreePatentsOnline (several fee-based data delivery & analysis services); IP Newsflash Patent Family Search(INPADOC data); Clearly Understood (concept searching for patents); Freshpatents.com(RSS feeds); Delphion(US only, or by subscription); Braindex(worldwide; Patent Downloader software for $99.95); Canadian Intellectual Property Office database(75 years of patent descriptions & images); Peer-to-Patent Community Patent Review(New York Law School with cooperation of USPTO); Tips from the Experts: a short course on patent reference for science & technology librarians; Download US patents (in PDF); Patent Searching Tutorial(InventNET inventors network) how to conduct an invention search to determine if your invention has already been granted a US patent; Patent Searching: back to the future, how to use patent classification search tools to create better searches; Selected sources for patent research;

Patent Searching Without Words - Why Do It, How To Do It?( Free Pint Newsletter 130; 6 February 2003)   

PatentSurf(6.85m+US paternts)                                                                                             17 October 2008

Patent Tools                                                                                                                            27 Novembetr 2009
Search US patents by patent no, application no., words in title, abstract claims, inventor assignee, specification; access previous search results; Hermes^TM  research notes application; Patent Builder_^TM  application design tool;

Peer to peer file sharing                                                                                                     7 May 2009
ISPs assist in cutting off file-sharing users; File-sharing & copyright(Harvard Business School, May 2009); 

Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for Revolution                                                                         10 May 2006

PicScout image copyright solutions
PicScout’s products list of images that display online with the universal information symbol if a surfer is using the ImageExchange Firefox add-on to show which images you may or may not use; PicScout program ImageTracker searches & finds images based on algorithms it employs for image identification, as a part of the Image IRC platform which programs images with metadata(licensing information, owner, etc) so that ImageTracker will work to police infringement. Those two products are connected by the ImageExchange Add-on, which lets person searching for an image connect with the owner;

Plagiarism Viewpoints: a reflection on plagiarism, patchwriting, & the engineering Master's thesis  26 August 2010
11 Nov 2011: Wikipedia tops list of plagiarized sources(Campus Technology, Nov. 3, 2011);

Primary Sources on Copyright, 1450-1900                                                                              9 May 2009
funded by UK Arts & Humanities Council using primary sources from Italy, France, Germany, UK, & US to trace beginnings; each geographical zone/jurisdictions has national editor responsible for selecting, sourcing, transcribing, translating & commenting documents  including privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts & materials relating to legislative history, contemporary letters, essays, treatises & artefacts; interactive timeline in 50 year time segments; Search by date & place; browse country, original language, person, place;

Privacy papers for policy makers                                                                                            24 September 2010
collection of fulltext papers isinaugural issue of new journal from Future of Privacy Forum think tank affiliated with George Washington University Law School;

Protecting & Enhancing Canada's Public Domain                                                                        22 April 2011
brief to Legislative Committee on Bill C-32 by Mark Akrigg, founder of Project Gutenberg Canada, a website distributing free digital editions of books in the Canadian Public Domain; submission by Canadian Council of Archives;

Public Domain Mark(PDM) Creative Commons                                                                        25 October 2010
differs from CC0(CC Zero) introduced in March 2009, a universal waiver of copyright that can be used when copyright owners want to permanently surrender rights. PDM may be used by anyone, not only a copyright owner, who has identified a work free of copyright restrictions. Primarily works eligible will be very old works passed out of copyright. While the new mark has no legal standing it is an assertion that a work is in the public domain & the guidelines are there to ensure that the assertion is well-considered;

Public domain review: Guide to finding interesting public domain works online                                27 January 2012
Films, Images, Texts, Audio; Public Domain Calculators project to put together simple tools to help residents in Europe determine if a work is in public domain in their particular jurisdiction. Stanford also have a good site to help determine public domain status of works in US (cf legal section in Guide);

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving: the SHERPA/ROMEO list                                   3 January 2006

Publishers versus Libraries: quarrel over Paragraph 52b of German Copyright Act                                    12 November 2009
In 2007, based on an EU-wide regulation, a paragraph was inserted into German copyright law, permitting public libraries, museums & archives “to make works from their holdings accessible at electronic reading places for purposes of research & private study”; verdict delivered on May 13, 2009, Frankfurt District Court confirmed that libraries may digitalise printed works in their holdings & make them available at reading places; Court allowed users to print out parts of works; electronic copies, downloads on storage media, are illegal.

Robbery under arms: Copyright law & Australia-US Free Trade Ageeement(First Monday, March 2006)

Science Commons: Launching public discussion of Creative Commons patent tools                 16 April 2010
new patent tools: Research Non-Assertion Pledge & Public Patent License in collaboration with GreenXchange(GX) network of companies interested in making publicly available unpatented knowhow & patented inventions with potential to promote innovation, sustainability, resource management, & other socially responsible uses of ideas & inventions;

Science IP subscription service of CAS division of  American Chemical Society                        12 June 2006

Screenrights                                                                                                                               8 April 2009
not-for-profit organisation that licenses educational institutions to copy from TV for teaching; facilitates film, TV & radio payment to copyright owners for use of their work;

Searchable IP Databases(LLRX.com-ResearchRoundUp, September 17, 2001)  
Online intellectual property resources beyond statutes, court decisions & application forms. Searchable databases exist for all types of IP registrations(international as well as US & state) &, in some instances, pending litigation; free databases don’t consistently offer same level of completeness & reliability as a commercial search; quick, cheap,  convenient starting point; Search International Patent Applications search 1129632 international patent applications & view  latest information & documents available to International Bureau;

Searchable Networked Intellectual Property Electronic Resource(SNIPER)                                5 December 2011   
Informit subscription database provides information relating to IP Australia's core business areas, namely patents, trade marks & designs;  includes other topics that impact on IP Australia's business, especially related intellectual property matters such as copyright, plant breeders rights & domain names, matters related to significant Australian or international trends & develpments, or significant to the field of intellectual property as a whole;

Searching Free Design Databases on Web                                                                                  4 September 2003

Searching Free Trade Mark Databases on Web(FreePint Newsletter 139; 26 Jun 2003)    

Searching Patents on Government Databases on Web(FreePint Newsletter, 6 February 2002 )

Second-hand music goes digital (Australian Copyright Council)                                                   30 November 2011
ReDigi is relying on US First Sale Doctrine which allows owners of legitimately acquired copies of copyright material to re-sell without interference from copyright owne. The US-based RIAA, which represents recording industry, has objected to ReDigi’s model & sent a cease & desist letter in which it responds that first sale doctrine only applies to particular copy purchased, arguing that “it does not permit the owner to make another copy, sell the second copy & destroy the original”; In Australia, resale of physical items is unproblematic in copyright terms, while resale of legally purchased digital material remains a legally grey area;

Social Networks in the workplace - some data protection issues                                                    21 December 2011

Spire Project: Researching Research                                                                                           14 September 2001
searching for patents, newspaper clips, article, theses & sources that describe research; specialty government research databases create a uniform portal to research information. Some are free online. There are also directories to research centers to consider.

Spire Project: Searching Patents                                                                                                 14 September 2001
free databases, national patent agency resources, commercial patent databases, commercial services;  patent classification

Spire Project: Theses &d Dissertations                                                                                       14 September 2001
most theses & dissertations have fewer than 12 copies including one for the University Library & one for the

STN® International platform                                                                                                     20 February 2008
operated jointly by CAS & FIZ Karlsuhe worldwide, represented in Japan by JAICI; years of experience in scientific information; international service for scientific community; leading information network for sci-tech & patent information; STN AnaVist provides a  visual representation of data & Derwent World Patents Index analysis. It has custom visualisation fields for text mining;

SurfIP Portal                                                                                                                             24 February 2003
Intellectual Property Office of Singapore(IPOS); first IP Portal to offer users comprehensive & integrated IP information; databases of European Patent Office(EPO), UK Patent Office(UKPO), US Patent Office(USPTO), World Intellectual Property Organization(WIPO); Features: Search multiple sources in a single operation; Conduct integrated & aggregated searches; Dispense with obscure syntax & filenames; Reduce search costs; Translate search results using multilingual tools; Conduct simple/advanced/patent number searches; Search through Directory of IP Professionals; Read about new inventions, IP Events & highlights

Survey of patent users: an analysis of tasks, behavior, search functionality & system requirements    31 August 2010
Proceeding of the third symposium on Information interaction in context; SESSION: Information seeking in context table of contents, Pages: 13-24, 2010(ISBN:978-1-4503-0247-0); Association for Computing Machinery(ACM) Digital Library; 

Tempus IP(Minesoft)                                                                                                                    11 December 2008
Interactive Internet based service for patents delivers patent file histories(file wrappers), non patent documents & a wide range of certified IP documents from USPTO & international patent offices worldwide; Clients can place & track orders 24x7. Experienced advisers are available by telephone, email or fax to assist clients; Wide range of IP documents in patent trademark & copyright sectors; Theiroffices are located in Shirlington, Virginia in close proximity to the future new location of the File Information Unit of USPTO.

Text mining promises huge benefits but copyright law can limit its use   (JISC report)                 28 March 2012

Thomson Innovation platform
single, integrated IP research & analysis solution that combines intellectual property, scientific literature, business data & news with analytic, collaboration & alerting tools in a robust platform; visualisation & analysis; citation mapping for a patent activity tree; chart templates developed from customer feedback used to drill down results; Asia Pacific data sheet; Full English translations of Japanese Unexamined & Examined patents; Editorially-enhanced, English-language abstracts of patents from Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore & Taiwan; Coverage of Korean, Chinese & Japanese Utility Models, with editorially enhanced English language titles & abstracts;

Thomson Patent Store                                                                                                             27 March 2003
comprehensive patent document delivery service; patents in PDF format from 32 patenting authorities, including multi-country authorities, US, EP, WO, DE ; same-day or 24-hour service available for another 12 patenting authorities plus British B-documents.

Tightening the net: IP micro-regimes & peer-to-peer practice in higher education networks             27 November 2011

Trademark Document Retrieval(TDR)                                                                                        5 April 2005
USPTO portal for electronic documents associated with US trademark applications, extensions of protection & US trademark  registrations ; registrations & applications for international filing under Madrid system through US; conversion of trademark records to digital format will take several years. Currently provides access to most pending applications & Madrid Protocol filings, as well as many trademark registrations. Search by US serial, registration or reference number, or by international registration number;

Trademarkia free USPTO Trademark Database interface beginning in 1870                                 20 September 2009
browse trademarks by category; tag cloud for popular companies with trademarks; search inside a category; categories: Transport & Traffic Signs; Toys & Sporting Goods; Companies; Popular Companies by Number of Trademarks(tag cloud); Telecommunications

Traditional Knowledge Digital Library(India. Council of Scientific & Industrial Research(CSIR) )  24 May 2009
Department of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha & Homeopathy(AYUSH); knowledge available in public domain on traditional knowledge from existing literature related to Ayurveda, Unani,Siddha & Yoga, in digitized format in English, German, French, Japanese & Spanish; Presently Login to TKDL is available only for Patent Offices under TKDL Access Agreement; preventing misappropriation of traditional knowledge at International Patent Offices; India fought successfully for revocation of turmeric & basmati patents granted by US Patent & Trademark Office(USPTO) & neem patent granted by European Patent Office(EPO); TKDL has become a model for other countries on defensive protection of their traditional knowledge from misappropriation. Countries & organizations such as South Africa, African Regional Property Organization(ARIPO), Mongolia, Nigeria, Malaysia & Thailand have expressed their keen desire to replicate TKDL.

UK Government response to Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property & Growth                    6 August 2011
recommendations endorsed: Digital Copyright Exchange for UK where licences in copyright content can be readily bought & sold; Copyright exceptions covering limited private copying (e.g. format-shifting) & to make it legal to parody someone else's work without seeking permission from the copyright holder; introduction of an exception to copyright for search & analysis techniques known as 'text & data mining'; Establishing licensing & clearance procedures for orphan works; That evidence should drive future policy;

Unacknowledged convergence of open source, open access, & open science(First Monday, vol 10, no 8, August 2005)   

Unearthit.net searchable database of original creative work; buy work direct from source            9 March 2005

UK Patent Office Moves To British Library(via ManagingInformation.com)                                1 September 2005

UNESCO: Collection of Copyright Laws                                                                                  14 April 2007
national copyright & related rights legislation of Member States currently comprises about 100 laws, constantly updated; International Standard-Setting Instruments in the Copyright Field access to major international instruments in the field of copyright & related rights;

US Copyright Office eCO Search                                                                                                1 October 2005
keyword searching & use of a single database containing records since 1978 for monographs, serials, recorded documents; See also Virtual copyright card catalog project (Library of Congress); 5 May 2012: US Copyright Office(Library of Congress) has posted 2 Requests For Information(RFI); first to learn about utilizing crowdsourcing to capture data from historical catalog cards dating from 1870 to 1977, second to learn about purchasing or developing software for a  “virtual card catalog” to access digitized historical records; 

US Patent & Trademark Office                                                                                                   7 February 2003
Peer-to-Patent opens patent examination process to public participation to help USPTO find information relevant to assessing claims of pending patent applications as a community reviewer; Applicant & Examiner Citations in US Patents: Overview & Analysis; Google, Internet Archive, & Intellectual Ventures are working together to provide OA to "several terabytes" of backfile of US patents;

US Patent & Trademark Office (Google hostings)  review                                                           4 June 2010
2 year, no cost agreement with Google to make bulk electronic patent & trademark public data available; 10 terabytes of data  including patent grants & applications, trademark applications, patent & trademark assignments, with more data (like trademark file histories) available in the future; G divides hosted files into patents & trademarks pages; BULK hosting; data download page lets you choose between types of information (Grant images, Grant fulltext, Grant bibliographic data, Published applications, Assignments, Maintenance fee events, USPTO Red Book & Classification information); trademark data page consists of Grants & applications, 1870-2008, Recent applications, Recent assignments(lots of zip files; last 3 years), Trademark Trial & Appeal Board decisions; 9 Oct 2011: USPTO rebrands National Library Network as Patent & Trademark Resource Centers: shift in focus from paper depository concept to access electronic information & specialized training for information needs of C21 patent & trademark customers;  

US Patent & Trademark Office trade mark applications                                                      9 March 2005
Trademark Electronic Search System(Tess) accessible free of charge; decisions & reasons, made by trade mark examining attorneys;

Virtual copyright card catalog project (Library of Congress(LC))                                                25 March 2012
25723 drawers in LC Copyright Card Catalog to have index terms scanned OCR for online searching; 12000 already scanned give 17m+ card images; to be available online through a hierarchical structure mimicking researchers approach & use of card catalog; card images organized by drawer, each in its own folder, & image file names contain time period, rawer label, a sequential four digit number starting with 0001, & occasionally an alphabetic suffix when information exists on a verso or there are multiple card images for a single entry;

US Patent Assignments recorded since August 1980                                                                  24 February 2004
search by patent number or assignor or assignee name; click the link for an assignor's or assignee's name in any record to find a history (from mid-1980)

Visualisation software                                                                                                             20 February 2008
Thomson Innovation platform visualisation & analysis; citation mapping for a patent activity tree; chart templates developed from customer feedback used to drill down results; STN AnaVist provides a  visual representation of data for insights & Derwent World Patents Index analysis. It has custom visualisation fields for text mining

Webcasting Treaty                                                                                                                    3 March 2006
Text of proposed treaty; CPTech page on webasting treaty; EFF page on webcasting treaty

What’s the law around aggregating news online?Harvard Law report on risks & best practices            17 September 2010

When is a script or batch file copyrighted?                                                                                     16 September 2010

Whose Work Is It, Anyway?(orphan works of art & literature)                                                    31 July 2005
U.S. Copyright Office information on orphan works; Association of Research LibrariesWeb site on; Illustrators' Partnership of America on; 

WIPO Gazette of International Marks                                                                                         15 September 2005
new international registrations, renewals, subsequent designations; declarations & notifications under Agreement, Protocol – 2 treaties that govern Madrid System – or Common Regulations under these treaties regarding particular requirements, or amounts of individual fees.

World Book & Copyright Day - April 23(UNESCO)                                                                 15 April 2009

WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry Beta 
union catalog of copyright evidence based on WorldCat 100m+ bibliographic records describing items held in libraries worldwide with WorldCat metadata; Catalogers use OCLC Connexion cataloging authorizations, others use WorldCat.org; “sandbox” record sample; search & view bibliographic information & information related to copyright status without sign in; No conclusions or assertions about copyright status of a book; information, tools, & community to conduct copyright status investigation;

World Intellectual Property Organization List of WIPO Standards, Recommendations & Guidelines  28 January 2006
WIPO administers 23 international treaties; About - nature of trademarks, industrial designs, emerging issues in IP; News & Information Resources  for access to WIPO Magazine, Intellectual Property Digital Library, upcoming events & conferences; information about treaties that protect rights of intellectual property across international borders; Natural language search in the reformed IPC - TACSY version 1.1.0.33; On-line Data Collections hosted by WIPO; WIPO GOLD free public one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data; See also Global Brand Database; Patentscope: WIPO's gateway to patent services & activities;

World IP Today: A Thomson Scientific Report On Global Patent Activity from 1997-2006            4 May 2007
Analyzing Global Patent Activity & Technology Innovations Over Past Decade; Reports Created in Observance of World Intellectual Property Day as Declared by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); methodologies;

Xyggy Patent uses Bayesian Sets to recognise relationships between objects;                                  13 December 2010

Yahoo! Shortcuts                                                                                                                          26 March 2007
Patents: search on "patent" & US patent number for detail on patent; open shortcuts for Yahoo! members: navigate to any URL, Easily recall common searches on Yahoo!, Quickly search favorite sites, Jump start frequently used Internet applications;