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Patent Law

U.S. Patent Law materials, research resources and legal database search strategies

Legal databases features

icon The Bloomberg Practice Centers - IP Laws News section lists different IP news. Bloomberg coverage also includes:

Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal,
providing weekly coverage of important intellectual property cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments. From 1996-current, and the

Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily,
with daily reporting on IP issues. Coverage from 1998-current.

icon Lexis Law360 Intellectual Property page.

Law360 allows FIU College of Law faculty, students, and staff to receive daily legal news bulletins in a variety of practice areas, industries, and geographical regions. more...

 

Lexis-Nexis Legal Newsroom / Intellectual Property

icon Westlaw Practioner Insights for Intellectual Property

Westlaw Intellectual Property Legal Newspapers & Newsletters.
The listing includes nine different sources.

PatentlyO blog /
live feed

Five recent entries from the blog appear below. Hovering over the entry will give you a summary. Clicking will take you to the blog itself.

Other patent blogs

General focus:

    Patently-O

    Written Description

    The Patent Prospector

    Docket Report

Biotech and Pharma focus:

    Patent Baristas

    Patent Docs

Software focus:

  Foss Patents

Video Game focus

    Patent Arcade

USPTO news

The Official Gazette for Patents is published each Tuesday in electronic form only, and contains bibliographic text and a representative drawing from each patent issued that week. The Official Gazette Notices are also included in each issue. Only the most recent year's issues are archived by the USPTO.

Director's Forum blog

America Invents Act AIA blog

USPTO E-mail alerts via E-mail newsletter for 10 different topics.

Inventor's Eye bi-monthly newsletter.

Federal Register notices published by the USPTO.

Federal Register Blogs

The Federal Register allows you to subscribe to their own main OFR Blog.

You can also navigate to and subscribe to the RSS feeds for the Patent and Trademark Office, or, using the advanced search, subscribe to an alert for a topic, for example, "inventions and patents ".

The URL for the RSS feed for "inventions and patents" is here.

Legal blog directories

These directories allow you to search for blogs by topic. Some allow for other filters.

Justia Blawg Search

ABA Journal Blawg Directory

Library of Congress - Legal Blawg Archive

RSS Feeds

Click the icon above for instructions on how to set up blogs as RSS feeds.