Category Archives: Business

Legal Business Resources

Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Trade Secrets

Canadian Trade-Marks Database
CIPO also offers a “test version” of its trademarks database. The database contains active and inactive marks “applied-for or registered pursuant to the current Trade-marks Act or former trade-mark legislation

Computer Crime and Intellectual Property

Copyright Association of Ireland

The Copyright WebSite
With Famous Copyright Infringements, Basic Information for Copyright
Law and how to Register with the Copyright Office; Fair Use and Public Domain and Late
Breaking News

IBM Patent Server
IBM lets you access over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office (USPTO) patent descriptions as well as the last 23 years of images

iCopyright.com
First automated copyright permissions and reprints clearinghouse. iCopyright.com simplifies the process of legally re-using copyrighted material; search the iCopyright databases; user and publisher accounts are free

Intellectual Property Related Bills 106th Congress
Download in PDF format

Internet Patent News Service
Daily news service dealing with information about the patenting world. Topics include announcement from various Patent Offices around the world, stories about who is suing who, interesting new patents and styles of patent drafting, statistics on issued patents with a focus on software patents

Links to Legal Information
While the World Law List 2.0 won’t win raves for keeping current, this
law-student produced site is a comprehensive resource with more than 70 countries

Memberships and Advocacy
By James Huggins – Ending graphics copyright abuse on the net. Includes links to organizations such as Web Guard, Web Prestige, WARP, Look But Don’t Steal, Grey Day, Faded Tapestries, ACAP: Artists’ Coalition Against Piracy, What is Copyright Protection, Eleventh Commandment, Give Credit Where Credit is Due, Take Responsibility, Stop Internet Plagiarism

The Patent Act
As enacted July 19, 1952, updated through July 1996 along with related case material

Patents.com
Provided by the law firm of Oppedahl & Larson LLP

Patents, CopyRights and Trademarks
Intellectual Property

Patent and Trademark Forms
Download with Adobe’s Acrobat Reader

The Protection of Soft Property
Article by Robert Thibadeau

PTO’s Trademark Status Information Server Search Trademarks on the TARR server

Search Engine Copyright Disputes
Site by James Huggins provides a number of copyright links regarding Search Engine Copyright Disputes

SEC News Digest
SEC News Digests are organized so you can find what you are looking for and is completely searchable

Stanford University’s Copyright and Fair Use Site
With Search Engine

Internet Patent News
Abstracts of Patents from 1984 – 1989

Technology Law
Comprehensive Patent, Copyright & Trademark Law Links

TenKWizard
Provides SEC filings and financial analysis from 1994 through 1998. Perform searchs by ticker symbol or by partial company name. Search all the SEC filings by specific keyword or Boolean keywords

Ten Myths about Copyrights

Trademark Applications
Download in adobe PDF format with Adobe Acrobat Reader

Trademark Electronic Application System

Trademark Wars on the Web
Some entertaining too

Vietnamese Copyright Laws: Foreign Copyright Owners Beware! A Comparative analysis of its evolution and shortcomings
Article by Frederic P. Vimeux, Across Borders, October 1999 (full article)

U.S. Web Patent Databases
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office offers web access to their
bibliographic and full-text patent databases, covering from January 1, 1976
to the most recent weekly issue date

U.S. v. Microsoft Case Materials

WIPO
World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee Web Page
The WIPO provides articles on the status of its attempt to harmonize trademark laws.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

Insurance

A.M. Best Insurance Directory
Search by company profile

Insure.com
Best and worst things to happen to insurance consumers in 1999. Court battles, new laws, insurance scams. Health insurance, annuities, medical malpractice, and title insurance, featuring information from Standard & Poor’s. Search for ratings and marketshare. This page is built for the consumer, not the insurance companies. Forums to address your personal questions and problems with all types of insurance

Insurance News Network
Including Information on how to make a Complaint and Insurance Cases in the News

Legal Information Institute Insurance Law Materials
CFR search engine, recent insurance cases from U.S. Supreme Court
and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals

Standard & Poors Financial Rates for Insurance Companies

Financial

100 hot Finance Sites
An aggregation of the Web’s Most Popular Finance Sites ranked in order of the number of hits they receive

Appraisers
National Register of Certified Appraisers

Canadian Bankers Association
English and French

Citibank Investment Tools
Future and Present Value Calculators, IRA Comparison Calculator, IRA
Rollover Calculator, Periodic Additions Calculator, Education Funding and Investment Planners

Commodity Futures Trading Commission Forms

The Compliance Desk
Banking Information and Regulatory Compliance

Comptroller of the Currency

CyberSecuritiesLaw.com
Devoted to securities law and the internet, intended for lawyers, business executives, and financial industry professionals. Resources available are a news archive, bibliography of articles and publications, a case digest, legislative alerts, SEC No-Action Letter summaries, SEC Release summaries, SEC litigation release bibliography, CyberSecuritiesLaw links, and Securities Law links

Economic Expert Witnesses
By Frankenfeld Associates, a list of close to 900 forensic economic experts

Economic Time Series Page
If you need interest rates, inflation rates, cost of money, employment rates, consumer price index or any other financial data, this is a good place to start. Information available includes federal, by individual state, and some city information

Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

Federal Grand Jury Information
Professor Susan Brenner created the Grand Jury web site to let people learn what a grand jury is, and what it does

Federal Housing Finance Board

Federal Reserve Bank, New York
Help Solve Savings Bond Dilemmas. With SAVINGS BONDS, you need but plug in the date a bond was bought, its denomination and series and the amount the bond is currently worth will be calculated for you

Financial Accounting Standards Board

Financial Fraud Institute
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

Forensic Economics Reading Room
A library of in-depth articles and statistics relevant to the calculation of various kinds of economic damages

Freddie Mac
Real Estate, Financial

Independent Bankers Association of Texas (IBAT)
Banking sites, a bit difficult to navigate since a lot of scrolling is involved, but we are hoping you find the information worthwhile

International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
An autonomous international organization, ICSID “provides facilities for the conciliation and arbitration of disputes between member countries and investors who qualify as nationals of other member countries

NLCIFT
National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

Consumer Information on Reverse Mortgages

Securities Class Action Clearing House
Containing case information and class action complaints, Opinions and Orders, Docket Sheets, Settlement Documents, Federal and State Actions, 1995 Private Securities Litigation Reform

StockGroup.Com
Comprehensive site for micro cap stocks and investors

Supervisory Policy Statement on Investment Securities and End-User Derivatives Activities

Tax and Accounting Services
San Francisco CPA firm of Markle, Stuckey, Mardesty & for closely-held businesses and individuals; financial statement audits, reviews and compilations; litigation support services; business planning; estate planning; business valuation services; and bookkeeping services

The Ten K Wizard
Access and analysis of SEC documents. Search through the SEC filings by word, words, phrases, or a combination using boolean expressions. Also check financial News Headlines from NewsHarvester

Uncle Fed
Uncle Fed’s Tax Board is a one-stop webpage for help with your taxes. Uncle Fed has Tax Information, Tax Forms, Tax Help, Tax News, Tax Publications, Tax Articles, On-Line Filing, IRS Information, IRS Procedures, IRS Help, and much more. Find out how to audit proof your tax return at Uncle Fed’s

Uniform Business and Financial Laws Locator
List of Uniform Laws in Business and Finance, Including Uniform Arbitration, Consumer Sales, Consumer Credit, Tenant Landlord, Fraudulent Conveyance, Land Sales and much more

Viatical and Senior Settlements

Business And Corporate Information

1Jump
This site offers access to 1,000,000 business records and claims to contain better business content than any search engine; free instant access to stock quotes, news, patents, brands, managers, peer companies and competitors, public filings, press releases, and more

Antitrust Policy
Economic Research, Policy and Cases

Big Business Web
Hundreds of Categorized Business Links

Burwell World Directory of Information Brokers
This site includes nearly 1,000 listings of information retrieval experts in thirty-eight countries in its database

Charlotte Commercial Law Attorneys
Erwin & Eleazer handling construction law, civil litigation, and corporate law, Charlotte, NC – (704) 369-7900.

Commercial Transactions

Companies Online
Has a Database of more than 60,000 Companies.

Company Research

SEARCH EDGAR Archives Database
Search for Info on Companies who Trade their Stock on the Stock Exchange

FDIC’s Consumer Resources
Search to see if an Online Bank is Legitimate

For Sale By Owner

Fortune’s Global 500 List
Search for Info about Fortune 500 companies

Home Inspections
A home inspection is necessary with most all residential re-sales. Check here for more information.

Hoover’s Online Company Information
Searchable by Location, Company Name or Industry

Kansas Corporation Database
Database for searching Kansas Corporations, several search options available

Public Record Retriever Network
Membership Required

U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Virtual Chase Company Information
Virtual Chase’s Eight Steps to Finding Company Information on the Web with links on where to go.