IP Primary simplifies your research by providing access to key decisions, federal statutes, and regulations concerning patents, copyrights, trade-marks, and other intellectual properties.

IP Primary resources and exclusive WestlaweCARSWELL functionality provide quick and integrated access to specific points of law. You can target specific and familiar matters as well as cover unfamiliar ground with speed and ease using such research features as terms and connectors searching, natural language searching, West’s Key Number searching, case synopses and headnotes, and KeyCite.

Primary law content highlights:

·     U.S. Federal Intellectual Property decisions

·     U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decisions

·     U.S. federal and multi-state legislation

·     U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (IP sections): documents from the Code of Federal Regulations that relate to the rights of artists, authors, composers, and designers of creative works

·     Manual of U.S. Patent Classifications: reference work listing the numbers and descriptive titles of the approximately 430 patent classes and 150,000 subclasses in the U.S. Patent Classification (USPC) System, as well as the plant and design classes

·     Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure: published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to provide guidelines to the practices and procedures related to the prosecution of applications to register marks in the USPTO

·     West Legal Directory (IP sections): profiles and biographical records of intellectual property law firms and practitioners

·     West's Topical Highlights (IP sections): editorially written summaries of recent developments in the law

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