Comparative Law Resources: United States

Patent Law

Statutes

• 35 U.S.C. (Patent Act) is available at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/consolidated_laws.pdf
• American Inventors Protection Act of 1999
  The full text of legislation, changes to 35 U.S.C. and related information are available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/aipa/index.htm

Regulations

• MPEP (Examination Guidelines) is available at: http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/index.html

Case Law

• Decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit are available at: http://fedcir.gov/dailylog.html

Secondary Authorities

Treatise

• Martin Adelman, Patent Law Perspectives, Lexis Publishing (ISBN 0-8205-1532-9)
• Donald S. Chisum, Chisum on Patents, Matthew & Bender (ISBN 0-8205-1525-6)

Horn Book

• Donald S. Chisum et al, Understanding Intellectual Property, Matthew & Bender (ISBN 0-8205-0549-8)

Case Book

• Adelman, et al, Patent Law, West Group ISBN 0-314-06529-6
• Moore, et al, Patent Litigation and Strategy ISBN 0-314-23131-5

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• IP Law and Policy LLM
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