The following is a collection of sources of updates on patent law/patent cases. Please email me any suggestions; will be later added to my IP Links Page. (Stephen Nipper provided me with many of these links.)
Email distribution lists and Blogs (blogs can be subscribed to via aggregators such as Sharpreader; most also offer email subscription)
- Patterson Belknap’s Federal Circuit Patent Review newsletter (by email; summarizes the previous week’s patent and other decisions by the CAFC; one of my primary weekly readings)
- Pierce Law IP News Blog
- FindLaw Intellectual Property Case Summaries (email list)
- Willamette Law’s IP case summaries (email list)
- I/P Updates blog: “News and Information for Intellectual Property Practitioners” (William “Bill” Heinze)
- IP Law Server (Intelproplaw forums)
- The Invent Blog–Necessity’s Progeny–Nipper’s Patent Law Blog (Stephen Nipper)
- Patently-O: Patent Law Blog (Dennis Crouch) (caselaw focus)
- IP Counsel Blog (Todd Lewis Mayover–)
- KinsellaLaw blog (Stephan Kinsella)
- PatNews (email list)
- Philip Brooks’ Patent Infringement Updates
- Internet Law Update (Martin H. Sampson) (email list)
- The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) blog: Marc Adler, president of the IPO, has started a blog with the goal of providing a discussion forum for the IP community.
- Richmond IP Blog: The IP Institute at the University of Richmond Law School; focused primarily on tech-copyright issues.
- Daily Dose of IP: by Mark Reichel, an associate at Ice Miller.
- Promote the Progress (J. Matthew Buchanan’s patent blog that covers patent legislation)
- Rethink(IP) (Buchanan/Nipper/Sorocco’s blog where they complain about how IP law should be changed)
- PHOSITA® IP law blog (Douglas Sorocco)
- Rethink(IP) “RSS Mojo” feeds (Patent Office News and Notices, Patent Lawsuit Filings/updates, etc scraped together and E-mailed to you)
- “Just a Patent Examiner” blog (written by a patent examiner; gives insight into how the USPTO works)
- Anything Under the Sun patent blog (Russ Krajec)
- Peter Zura’s two-seventy-one Patent Blog (“Providing insight and analysis on patent law, patent portfolio management and patent litigation in the fields of electronics, software and computers”)
- The Patent Prospector (an “Open Forum of Patent Information & Opinion”)
- Patent Baristas
Email discussion/news lists/discussion fora
- PatentLawPractice YahooGroup (run by Stephan Kinsella)
- Various WashLaw email discussion lists, such as PatentPractice-L–Patent Legal Practice Discussion List and Patent-L–Patent Law
- EFS [PTO electronic filing system] Users Discussion Group
- rethink(IP) discussion forum (in progress)
Other
- KinsellaLaw: IP Law Links and Sources
- IP Menu: Billed as “The Home of IP on the Internet”. By Phillips Ormonde Fitzpatrick
IP Podcasts
- There are/were some, but I have not been able to find any I like yet or that are regularly updated.
