Patents, Trademarks, & Copyright

The Copyright Website
A private site for copyright information. The site gives examples of copyright issues involving film, art, music, sound, software, etc.

ESPACENET
This European Patent Office (EPO) site provides access to thirty million European documents in their original languages.

The Invention Dimension
Read about the Inventor of Week and other interesting stuff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Patent Search
Full text and images of granted U.S. patents from 1790 and applications from March 2001 to the present. Patents issued between 1790-1975 can only be retrieved by patent number or classification numbers.

Public Domain texts
Public Domain sources of electronic texts available on the Internet.

United States Copyright Office
Information on copyright laws, procedures, etc.

United States Patent and Trademark Office
Information about patents and trademarks.

WATCH (Writers, Artists, and Their Copyright Holders) File
Contains names and addresses of copyright holders or contact persons for authors and artists whose archives are housed in North America and the United Kingdom.

When Works Pass Into The Public Domain