Consult the Experts on Intellectual Property

Patent, copyright and trademark law are complex subjects to master, even for experienced practitioners. When you have questions about intellectual property matters, you can turn to the Matthew Bender treatises, available online exclusively thought the LexisNexis® services. These analytical treatises written by respected experts in their field are updated regularly and provide comprehensive advice on intellectual property law. Three of the treatises are especially noteworthy:

Chisum on Patents
This treatise is the recognized leading authority on U.S. patent law. More current and complete than any of its competitors it is frequently cited by the U.S. Supreme Court.

You’ll find the information required to procure and protect patentable inventions, including validity, infringement and significant precedents as determined by case law and amended statutes. Chisum is renowned for explaining in detail the chronological evolution of a legal area, including its current status in the patent world and possible future direction(s). Additionally, major court decisions, patent statutes and regulations are detailed throughout this work.

Chisum on Patents also features the Federal Circuit Guide, a series of abstracts --arranged by topic and date--of all of the published decisions of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals since the Court began in 1982. Furthermore, there are hundreds of footnotes throughout Chisum that furnish the subscriber with complete documentation to landmark/current court decisions.

Gilson, Trademark Protection and Practice
Gilson, which is the Standard For Trademark Law Practice, offers comprehensive coverage of the law of trademarks in the U.S., including the following topics:

• Step-by-step instructions for registering a new trademark or enforcing it in a federal trademark infringement action
• Internet trademark law issues
• Trademark dilution
• Complete discussion of federal unfair competition law
• Trademark practice forms
• Text of the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure
• Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual
• Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure

Nimmer on Copyright
Cited in more court opinions and legal publications than any other treatise on U.S. copyright law, Nimmer on Copyright provides comprehensive insights into copyright protection. The contents of this easy-to-follow treatise include:

• In-depth and comprehensive insights into copyright protection in the digital age as well as exhaustive discussions of traditional copyright issues
• Extensive analysis covering specific media such as printed works; plays and motion pictures; music; artistic property; and digital technological developments such as copyright protection systems and the Internet
• Interpretation of all provisions of the Copyright Act, and thorough coverage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Outstanding litigation forms provided by top intellectual property litigators
• State-of-the-art transactional forms with side-by-side commentary written by leading copyright law practitioners
• Text of all relevant statutes, regulations, treaties and legislative histories.

In addition to these three authoritative treaties, the LexisNexis service offers an extensive collection of intellectual property materials, ranging from cases to the full text of U.S. patents with images.