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What are your research needs?
What are the biggest challenges in IP law today?
Do you use a current awareness service?
How do you research issues? What tools and resources do you
use? What tools and resources would you
like to see in the library?
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Resources in the Law Library
Things you still can’t get online – Books!
Treatises and Law Reviews can be checked out by Bar members
We can mail them to you if you’re not in Anchorage
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Finding Aids
Specialized Legal Research – Hazleton Federal Patent & Trademark Law Identifies sources of statutes,
legislative history, research tips, key research tools, treatises, and common research questions on various topics
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Finding Aids
Legal Information Buyer’s Guide and Reference Manual- Svengalis Descriptions and pricing for legal
titles arranged by subject matter Patents, Trademarks and Intellectual
Property Good for cost saving tips
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Treatises – IP Chisum, Acquiring and Protecting
Intellectual Property Rights Lindey on Entertainment, Publishing
and the Arts: agreements and the law Smith, Intellectual Property: Valuation,
exploitation and infringement damages Epstein, Drafting License Agreements
Have 3rd ed. but 4th ed. is available
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Treatises – IP
Tax Planning for the Development and Licensing of Copyrights, Computer Software, Trademarks, and Franchises, BNA Tax Management portfolio series Tax Management series available
electronically
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Treatises - Nutshells
Intellectual Property: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright in a Nutshell
Art Law in a Nutshell
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Treatises – Trademark
Trademark law: a practitioner’s guide
Callman on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies
McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition
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Treatises – Patents
Chisum on Patents – No Moy’s Walker on Patents Patent Law: a practitioner’s guide,
Hildreth Patent Litigation, Pretty How to write a patent application,
Sheldon
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Treatises - Copyright
Nimmer on Copyright Copyright: Principles, Law and
Practice, Goldstein? Milgrim on Trade Secrets? Substantial similarity in copyright
law, Osterberg
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Treatises - Software Computer software: protection,
liability, law, forms. Kutten The law and business of computer
software. Toedt (not current) Nimmer, The Law of Computer
Technology: rights, licenses, and liabilities, 3rd ed.
Computer Law Strategies, Hertz (CCH)
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Treatises to add?
O’Connor, Intellectual Property Law and Litigation
Scott, Multimedia: Law and Practice
Kohn on Music Licensing
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HeinOnline
Intellectual Property Library Coverage often begins with volume 1 Law journals – 1,100+ CFR, Federal Register, Statutes at
Large Only available in the library But, we can email law review articles
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FREE Westlaw at the Library
All State/Federal cases & statutes USCA, USCCAN ALR 2nd – 5th
Am.Jur., Forms, Proof of Facts and Trials
Journals and Law Reviews Key Cite
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Alaska Case Law Database http://government.westlaw.com/akcases Alaska Supreme Court and Court of
Appeals All published opinions back to 1960 Unpublished decisions (MOJs) back
to 1991, with older decisions being added
No headnotes, keyciting, or page numbers
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Casemaker
Alaska Caselaw 348 P.2d (1960) – current With reporter page numbers
Attorney General Opinions From 1995
Alaska Law Review Volume 14 - current
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Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Seward, Kenai Borough Codes
Statutes Court rules No IP specific resources Citator? Identifies cases, you
analyze them
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Casemaker – Federal U.S. Supreme Court 1893 - Current
U.S. Circuit Opinions 1 F.3d - current
U.S. District Courts (F.Supp.2d) F.Supp.2d Vol. 401 - current adv. sheet
U.S. Bankruptcy Opinions Begin: Vol. 334 B.R. (2005)
U.S. CodeTitles 1-41, 46 are complete through 01/02/2006Titles 42-45, 47-50 are complete through 01/03/2005Title 11 USC Bankruptcy Reform Act Contains all changes made by the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2005
Public Laws Includes laws passed by the 2005-2006 109th Congress and 2007 110th Congress to date
Code of Federal RegulationsTitles 1-16 complete through 1/1/2007Titles 17-27 complete through 4/1/2007Title 28-31 complete through 7/1/2007Titles 32-41 complete through 7/1/2006Titles 42-50 complete through 10/1/2006
U.S. Constitution
Federal Court Rules
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Casemaker
Basic search is natural language Advanced Search
Fields: Citation, Docket Number, Attorney, Judge, Date
Word Form – exact , wildcard * Proximity – word, sentence,
document, within 500 or 1000 characters
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All law library locations Two year trial project
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Need help? Call the library reference desk:
(907) 264-0585 or (888) 282-2082 Email: [email protected] Reference librarians can walk you through
searching or finding a website to help Interlibrary loan Catalog is on-line: http://
www.state.ak.us/courts/library.htm You can check out treatises for 3 days We will mail them to you if you live outside
Anchorage
