Copyright Law Research

Cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, courts of appeals, district courts, bankruptcy courts, Court of Federal Claims,Tax Court, military courts, and related federal and territorial courts that relate to intangible property rights such as copyright, trademark, patent, trade-secret, and other similar rights. Coverage begins with 1789.

United States Patents Quarterly contains federal and state court cases that relate to patents, trademarks and copyrights.

The Internet Law Library, authored exclusively by Martin H. Samson, features extensive summaries of over 600 court decisions shaping the law of the web; providing facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those who do business on the Internet and in New Media. These court decisions address a broad array of topics, including copyright and trademark infringement, dilution and other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, keying, meta tags, pop-up ads, consumer complaint or gripe sites, tax, clip-art, online defamation, domain name disputes, e-mail, privacy, subpoenas, MP3s, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink wrap licenses, and spam, among others. Decisions applying and interpreting a number of statutes, such as the Communications Decency Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, are also analyzed.

The U.S. Customs & Border Protection Rulings - HQ Series (CUSINF) are issued by the Headquarters office of the Bureau of Customs & Border Protection, fka U.S. Customs Service, under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS). The documents include prospective rulings, rulings requested after entry but before liquidation and post-liquidation protest reviews.

The rulings are categorized by the CBP under the following administrative
subject headings:

Bonds
Carriers
Classifications
Country of Origin
Trademark, Copyright & Patent