Intellectual Property
Patent and Trade Office Revised Interim Utility Guidelines: http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/utility.pdf)
Federal Trade Commission report recommending changes in the U.S. patent system: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2003/10/innovationrpt.pdf
National Academies Press book - A Patent System for the 21st Century
http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10976.html
US Patent Office patent database: http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Patent Cooperation Treaty Office: http://www.wipo.org/
US Patent and Trademark Office: http://www.uspto.gov
AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association) How to protect and benefit from your ideas:
The American Lawyer, a site that ranks law firms specializing in intellectual property, which annually publishes its “A-List” of the Top 20 firms in the Nation: http://www.americanlawyer.com/index.shtml
A site, offered by the law firm of Oppedahl and Larson, registered the “patents.com” domain and may therefore be found at : http://www.patents.com
U.S. Copyright Office Web site: http://www.copyright.gov/