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.
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This month Westlaw rolled out the State trademark court filing rules (TMRULES-XX) database outlining trademark statutes and applicable rules of practice. Individual state materials are found in databases with the identifier TMRULES-XX, where XX is a state's two-letter postal abbreviation. Databases were released for nine additional states (AZ, LA, MN, NJ, NY, OH, PA, TX, and WA).
As the library blog migrates to a new format I am reposting the "greatest hits" from the old blog. These entries have been updated with new web links where appropriate and reformatted for the new blog. Think of these entries as catching up with old friends or learning about a resource that you missed the first time.
The entry below was originally published by Roberta Woods on April 9, 2009.
