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New on Westlaw : Searching Asian Patents

According to Francis Gurry, deputy director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), "'[n]ew centres of innovation—in particular in north-east Asia—are emerging and this is transforming both the geography of the patent system and of future global economic growth.'" Peter Ollier and Emma Barraclough, Meeting Asia's Patent Boom Challenge, MANAGING INTELL. PROP., Mar. 1, 2007.

Did you know LexisNexis® is the first to offer Twitter feeds from Congress?

More than 140 Congressional Twitter feeds are now available as part of the Lexis Newstex offering.

New on Westlaw : PATENTS FORMFINDER database

The FORMFINDER-PAT database contains patent-related text forms, fillable PDF forms, clauses and checklists available on Westlaw from numerous national and state form sets, including legal and business, transactional, litigation and pleading and practice forms.

Ring in the new year with the ALR United States Supreme Review, Part I

The ink is barely dry on the most recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions of 2009, yet the American Law Reports review of the first part of the Court's 2009-2010 Term is already on Westlaw.

New Arrival : The Much Anticipated WIPO Journal

This journal provides a forum for debate of the controversial issues affecting intellectual property, drawing on the knowledge of experts from around the world. It provides multidisciplinary discussion, exploring issues from all perspectives, including legal, policy, economic, social, and technical. It also examines and critiques the impact of the WIPO Convention and other international treaties on practice and compares and contrasts various jurisdictions. Also on Westlaw as WORLD-IPO database.

Franklin Pierce Law Library has subscribed to premium IP case summary service for students and faculty

To sign-up for the services and/or to view a sample of the IP Notes, Patent Extra Notes and IP Administrative Notes, go to www.JurisNotes.com click on the "Sign Up" and/or "Summaries" navigation bar on the left hand side of the page. Please include your expected graduation date, or Faculty/Staff in the "Address" slot, and please use your school email address (so they know you are affiliated with the school). 

Another great legal research toolbar : Jureeka

Jureeka! turns legal citations in web pages into hyperlinks that point to online legal source material. Its handy toolbar also allows you to search for source material by legal citation and to find HTML versions of PDF pages. Jureeka! is great for quickly locating statutes, case law, regulations, federal court rules, international law sources, and more. It weaves together a host of law sources into a giant mesh. Its available for Firefox and now Chrome.

IP NETWORK Firefox Toolbar : WOW!

Free Patent and Prior Art Search Tool - IPEstonia Patent Search Toolbar Have you tried this new toolbar? Try it here  IPEstonia Toolbar - gateway to intellectual property information: More than 60 patent information and prior art search fields and growing * Links to meta patent search engines and other IP information search tools * Intellectual property news-feeds * Links to IP Event calendars

The Reinvention of Legal Research: The Future Is Now

Peter Schwartz provokes thought in the Huffington Post : legal research -- once the province of desks, books, and binders -- is now online, data-driven, and real-time. These attributes pose new challenges to old practices and habits, and to old publishing stalwarts such as Westlaw and LexisNexis. Here are a few of the new research and business realities that result from this transformation.

New on Free Web : International Free and Open Source Software Law Review

The International Free and Open Source Software Law Review (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publication aiming to increase knowledge and understanding among lawyers about Free and Open Source Software issues. Topics covered include copyright, licence implementation, licence interpretation, software patents, open standards, case law and statutory changes. Volume One was recently released.

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