Further Reading on Patent Law

Adams SR. Comparing the IPC and the US Classification Systems for the Patent Searcher. World Patent Inf. 2001 23 15-23. A comparison of the organizational philosophies of the International Patent Classification system and the U.S. national classification system and the differences in information retrieval that result. 

Adams SR. Survey of Patent Documentation from the Pacific Rim Countries. World Patent Inf. 1995 17(1) 48-61. 

Akers NJ. The European Patent System An Introduction for Patent Searchers. World Patent Inf. 1999 135-163. 

The Collection of Laws for Electronic Access (CLEA). World Industrial Property Organization, Geneva. URL http //www. wipo.int/clea/en/index.jsp. The text of intellectual property laws of all countries and patenting authorities that make them available to WIPO for publication on the Internet, many with English language translations. 

Derwent Global Patent Sources. London Thomson Derwent, 2002. An overview of international patents directed to patent law in general and the source documents used in database creation. It contains a collection of short siunmaries of the patent laws and docmnentation of coimtries covered by the DWPI, and is republished as a boimd voliune on a relatively frequent basis. 

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