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December 29, 2005Tennessee Starts Meth Offender Database
I know many states have offender databases, and of course there are registries for sexual offenders, but I haven't ever seen any other kind of registry devoted to one type of crime. Tennessee has started a registry of just meth...
Continue reading "Tennessee Starts Meth Offender Database" » February 22, 2005FindLaw Launches Real Estate Site
Legal information site FindLaw has announced a Real Estate Center, which as you might imagine focuses on real estate law. It's available at http://realestate.findlaw.com . The site is divided into three broad areas: tenant's rights, landlords, and home ownership. Pick...
February 02, 2005Copyright Office Asking for Comments on Orphan Works
I guess "Orphan works" rolls off the tongue a little easier than "Orphanware" or "Abandonedintellectualproperty". Anyway, the Copyright Office is asking for comments about orphan works, which it defines as "copyrighted works whose owners are difficult or even impossible to...
Continue reading "Copyright Office Asking for Comments on Orphan Works" » January 31, 2005PatentCafe Creates Search for IBM OSS Patent Collection
Patent search engine PatentCafe has announced a new Open Source Software Patent Search Engine, which will be devoted to patents that have been released to open source and made available to software developers. The patent search engine has been initially...
Continue reading "PatentCafe Creates Search for IBM OSS Patent Collection" » November 26, 2004Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates
It's thanks to good ol' Murphy's law, I think. Now that I'm deeply distracted by Real Life (tm), nifty sites and applications are crawling out of the woodwork. Now if I weren't busy, the most exciting thing going on would...
Continue reading "Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates" » November 03, 2004Metasearch for Trademark Registrations
Markenbusiness is offering a free meta-search of trademark databases all over the world. While it is free it provides only a limited amount of information; otherwise you're gonna have to bust out the Euros. The check searches USA, Canada, Mexico,...
October 29, 2004British American Tobacco Documents Online
The University of California has released an archive of over a million pages of documents related to the British American Tobacco company. It's available at http://bat.library.ucsf.edu/ , but it ain't finished; it'll be added to at the rate of 200,000...
Continue reading "British American Tobacco Documents Online" » July 26, 2004Search the USPTO via RSS feed
Ooo-hoo, nifty. http://varchars.com/blog/node/view/107 -- "Here's a quick (and ugly) hack to monitor patent and application searches: rss-uspto.pl. Since the USPTO has a 1000 query limit per day, I can't host this as a service, but it should be easy for...
December 23, 2003InjuryBoard Launches Search Engine for Personal Injury Law Firms
InjuryBoard has launched a Web site for personal injury law firms. This site doesn't just search to find personal injury law firms; it searches the sites themselves. It's still in beta but you can use it at http://firms.injuryboard.com . A...
Continue reading "InjuryBoard Launches Search Engine for Personal Injury Law Firms" » December 12, 2003Trademark Assignments on the Web
The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced the Trademark Assignments on the Web System, available at http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/ . This search system allows you to find trademark assignments back to 1995 (before that you're going to have to check with...
December 02, 2003Database of Child Labor Laws
The University of Iowa Center for Human Rights has started the Child Labor Legislative Database, which is now available at http://www.childlaborlaws.org/projects/database/ . The site contains the searchable child labor-specific text of laws from countries worldwide. There are two big elements...
October 01, 2003USPTO Puts Trademark Dispute Documents Online
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board of the US Patent and Trademark Office has put up a Web site containing images of documents available in trademark disputes. It's available at http://ttabvue.uspto.gov . There are not many search options here; the...
Continue reading "USPTO Puts Trademark Dispute Documents Online" » September 25, 2003One-Page List of Intellectual Property Resources
Yes, it's one of those one-page lists I'm so fond of. In this case it's intellectual property resources and it's available at http://www.ip-links.de/ . Compiled by European patent attorney Ralph Beier, this site lists its categories at the top. Categories...
Continue reading "One-Page List of Intellectual Property Resources" » March 19, 2001Patent Office Puts Applications Online
Last week, the patent office announced that they've published the first set of patent applications under the American Inventors Protection Act. 47 applications were published initially. New applications will be published every Thursday. They'll be ramping this up until about...
January 02, 2001Search Engine for Intellectual Property Information
Intellectual property is a big deal nowadays, so it's not too surprising that there's now a search engine devoted to it. (Actually, it's more appropriately a gateway to search engines.) IPSearchEngine ( http://www.IPSearchEngine.com ) starts off with a several screen...
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