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.

Creating links to Westlaw and LexisNexis can be tricky. Copying and pasting the long URL will not work. Luckily both Westlaw and LexisNexis have developed solutions for this problem. Information on creating links in LexisNexis is available here and information on creating Westlaw links is available here. Enjoy!

The ABA Journal unveiled exclusive screenshots of the upcoming new versions of LexisNexis and Westlaw.

Both Westlaw and LexisNexis continually evolve each year but the new format of both reflects a revolutionary change based on the format of a certain search engine. (that sounds like Ooogle). Boolean searching (and, and not, or) is no longer necessary to effectively search and the design of both websites is much simplified.  

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PierceLaw redesigned our QuickClicks webpage. Now you can view topics easily by category. Whenever possible links to research guides, descriptions, YouTube instructional videos, and other web resources are included in the pages.  If you prefer to browse databases alphabetically you can still use the QuickClicks Alpha page.

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It is easy to rely only on Westlaw and LexisNexis in law school but there are many many more resources available. Below are three useful, yet overlooked resources that can give you the edge in preparing for class or for practice.

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HeinOnline, long a resource for full text journal articles, now contains dozens of state bar journals. Like most HeinOnline resources the bar journals are full text and scanned copies of the original articles. (No hard to read format changes!) Additionally the bar journals available cover back to the first issue of publication. Read more. . .

Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? 

(Turn to page 12 if you choose to fight the giant squid. Turn to page 42 if you swim to the cave.)

 CCH IntelliConnect - New format for many PierceLaw IP and Tax databases!