The increasing digitization of intellectual property has added new complexity to intellectual property law. LexisNexis Expert News Sources maintain several of the key legal references in this field, including Nimmer on Copyright, International Copyright Law and Practice, Patent Office Rules and Practice, Trademark Protection and Practice and Milgrim on Trade Secrets.

Jerome Gilson is the author of the renowned Trademark Protection and Practice, and handles trademark trials and appeals in the federal courts, as well as before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Lester Horwitz is the author of Patent Office Rules and Practice, as well as co-author of Patent Prosecution: Procedure and Tactics and co-editor of Intellectual Property Counseling and Litigation. He has 40 years of private law firm experience doing patent prosecution in the U.S. and internationally.

Roger Milgrim is the author of Milgrim on Trade Secrets, generally regarded as the standard treatise in the field, and Milgrim on Licensing. He is also a partner of the New York law firm Paul, Hasting, Janofsky & Walker, where he chairs the intellectual property and technology group, and has been an adjunct professor of law at the New York University School of Law since 1974.

David Nimmer is responsible for Nimmer on Copyright, an indispensable reference created by his father, and, has contributed to numerous other books as an expert in intellectual property and copyright law in the U.S and internationally.

Paul Edward Geller has been the general editor of International Copyright Law and Practice since the book's initial publishing in 1988.
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