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Governments
around the world have made major strides in placing information on the Internet.
The following is a list of some of the government sites available on the
Internet that relate to intellectual property laws and the computer industry.
You may wish to skip directly
to one of the following subheadings:
     
- U.S. Federal Government
- American Law Sources On-Line
- Created by LawSource, Inc., this site contains link to federal and state court cases, statutes and rules.
- The Federal
Web Locator
- This popular, fully searchable index to federal web sites was created
by the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy.
- Government
Resources on the Web
- The University of Michigan established this site to aid in finding U.S.
(including state and federal) and international government sites.
- GovBot Database of Government
Web Sites
- A searchable database of over one hundred thousand government web pages,
provided by the University of Massachusetts.
- U.S. State and Local Governments
- American Law Sources On-Line
- Created by LawSource, Inc., this site contains links to federal and state court cases, statutes and rules.
- State and
Local Government on the Net (Piper Resources)
- A comprehensive, searchable listing of most every state, county and city
agency currently on the web. The site is indexed by state, and divides
each state index by branch of government and local entities. The site was
created by Piper Resources.
- The World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Law: State Government
- Another searchable listing of state and local government sites on the
Web, maintained by the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington.
- The State Web
Locator
- An HTML listing of state government sites created by the Villanova Center
for Information Law and Policy.
- The State Court Locator
- An HTML listing of state court sites created by the Villanova Center
for Information Law and Policy.
- World-Wide
- American Law Sources On-Line
- In addition to U.S. source, this LawSource, Inc. created site contains links to Canadian and Mexican legal resources.
- The
World List, Version 1.0
- A listing of non-U.S. legal Internet sites.
- Government
Resources on the Web
- The University of Michigan established this site to aid in finding U.S.
(including state and federal) and international government sites.
- General Legislation Sites
- THOMAS: Legislative
Information on the Internet
- This site provides access to current bills pending before Congress, and
allows key word searching. For example, you may search for
copyright
related bills,
patent
related bills, or
trademark
related bills. The site also contains the Congressional Record, and a
listing of other federal government Internet sites.
- White House
- White
House
- Includes links to important government searching engines and many White
House documents.
- U.S. Senate
- The United States Senate
- Not as useful as the House of Representative's site, this web page
mainly provides information about the offices and operation of the U.S. Senate.
- U.S. House of Representatives
- The House of
Representatives
- Internet Law Library
- A very useful site in investigating U.S. statues and regulations
- House Computers and the Law Site
- A good, up-to-date listing of links on legal issues relating to the computer
industry.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
- The USPTO's Primary Web Site
- This site includes general information about the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark System in general.
- Phone Number Database
- A searchable database of all USPTO employees.
- Information
Contacts List
- The USPTO Information Contacts list. This is basically a phone
book to the various departments and information sources within the USPTO.
The list also includes information on box numbers and proper addresses
for sending correspondence to the USPTO.
- List of Current Fees
- The current fees charged by the USPTO
- USPTO BBS Site via Telnet
- The BBS system has many of the most important USPTO documents available
for downloading, including the Manual for Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP)
and the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure (TMEP). When you telnet
into the fedworld site, you will need to logon with a user id and password.
New users can easily obtain their own id and password instantaneously
(and for free). To get to the BBS site, gateway to government site #116.
The menu commands for getting there from the main menu are: "U" (for
utilities),"D" (for the gateway system),"D" (for government databases), and
then "116" (for the USPTO BBS site).
- U.S. Copyright Office
- U.S. Copyright
Office's Primary Web Site
- This web site contains information on the copyright office and copyright
basics. The web site also gives access to copyright circulars and
application forms (in Adobe Acrobat format).
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Census Bureau Home Page
- The home of the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Due to the number of state and local government cites which may be
of interest to BitLaw users, only the following search indexes are included
in this listing.
- State and
Local Government on the Net (Piper Resources)
- A comprehensive, searchable listing of most every state, county and city
agency currently on the web. The site is indexed by state, and divides
each state index by branch of government and local entities. The site was
created by Piper Resources.
- The World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Law: State Government
- Another searchable listing of state and local government sites on the
Web, maintained by the Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington.
- The State Web
Locator
- An HTML listing of state government sites created by the Villanova Center
for Information Law and Policy.
- Europe
- Europa
- The European Commission Web Server.
- European
Governments on the WWW
- A German based site maintained in cooperation with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation.
- European Union Internet
Resources
- A general site containing a list of European sites on the Internet,
maintained and developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
- European Patent Office
- The EPO's Primary Web Site
- This web page provides general information about the EPO and the procedures
required to obtain a European patent. See also the
Austrian Mirror
Site.
- I'M EUROPE
- EU
Programmes and activities
- This site, by I'M-EUROPE, offers comprehensive information on EU programmes
and activities related to the information market and multimedia content
industries.
- European Commission
Legal Advisory Board--Intellectual Property
- In this site, I'M EUROPE provides intellectual property documents relating to
the Europe, including the directive for the legal protection of databases and the
directive for the legal protection of software programs. In addition, the site contains
links to important national level intellectual property documents.
- European Trademark Office a.k.a. the Office for
Harmonization in the Internal Market
- The Office for Harmonization in
the Internal Market
- Contains information on the European Trademark Office.
- Home Page of WIPO
- WIPO (English)
- The English language home page for the World Intellectual Property Law Organization.
- PCT Information
- WIPO's PCT Site
- WIPO's PCT page gives an introduction to the PCT, but does not contain the depth of
information and forms that are available in the USPTO's site.
- USPTO's PCT Site
- This site provides basic information about the PCT and allows the downloading
of PCT forms in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format as well as PageMaker and WordPerfect
InForms. The site is maintained by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office..
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