Educational Sites
The Web site of Cornell Law School provides easy access to the text of federal statutes relating to trademarks (see 15 U.S.C. Section 1051 et seq.), copyrights (see 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq.), and patents (see 35 U.S.C. Section 100, et seq.). Searching can be done by citation of statute, key word, or topic.
This Web site of the law library of Georgetown University Law Center provides easy access to federal and state statutes as well as a host of other legal information relating to intellectual property law. Searching can be done by topic.
This Web site of Franklin Pierce Law Center is commonly known as the Intellectual Property Mall and provides access to hundreds of journals and articles related to intellectual property law as well as numerous links to other valuable intellectual property sites.
This site, offered by the University of Texas at Austin, offers free patent searching for patents issued since 1969. Locate the "search box" and type in the word "patents." You will be directed to the specific site (www.libs/ENG/PTUT/comp.html) for patent searching. Searching can be done by topic name, inventor name, or patent number.
This site, titled "Friends of Active Copyright Education," is maintained by Duke University School of Law and provides understandable information about copyright law.