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Business Law and Trade Law

Business laws and trade laws have always played an important role in developing trade and business transactions. With the advent of market globalization and electronic commerce, not only trade laws and international trade laws are playing greater roles but complete new areas are being developed particularly as it relates to intellectual property rights and dispute settlements.This page lists and rates Internet resources related to Business Law, Trade Law and International Trade Law .

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Last updated December 7th 2005

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Sites are reviewed individually and rated mostly according to content depth and value added, while also considering ease of navigation and speed of loading. For each category best resources are listed first.

World Wide Web Virtual Library: Law An extensive meta-index maintained by "Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington". Legal information is defined by organization type and by topic. Very complete. Includes a very useful search engine (otherwise a bit difficult to browse). Oppedahl & Larson Intellectual Property Law Web Server Oppedahl & Larson is a law firm offering patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property services. This Web server is intended to provide information about intellectual property. An excellent very practical site with no frills attached . FindLaw FindLaw is an excellent Web portal focused on law, providing access to a comprehensive online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses. Do not miss the Small Business Center. Hieros Gamos Defining itself as "the Comprehensive Law and Government Portal" this huge meta site provides links to information on governments, law schools, legal associations, law firms, law libraries, legal topics, etc. Extremely rich and useful site once you get use to exploring it. I particularly liked the section on legal and government topics. All About Trademarks This site dedicated to trademarks, and trademark law, and maintained by Gregory H. Guillot, provides users with the many tools necessary to learn the basics of trademark law, conduct trademark searches, and access sites devoted to trademarks. The most impressive element of the site is its exhaustive collection of trademark links. Excellent site. International Trade Law Library Part of TradeWinds Publishing, this Electronic International Trade Law Library includes a series of information databases, or "infobases", consisting of international trade documents. Some of the infobases include: GATT, NAFTA, U.S., Canadian, Mexican, and Chinese International Trade Law and are searchable on-line through keywords. A very good site. LawGuru This exhaustive resource for free legal information provides access to more than 400 legal search engines and databases, including a feature that allows parallel searching of multiple databases. Very good and rich site. Do not miss the new sections on trade secrets, trademarks and copyrights. United States Patent and Trademark Office The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is an important department of the US government which employs the equivalent of 5,000 full time staff. Even though the focus is solely on the US it is an essential site with regards to Patents and Trademarks. Do not miss the new Trademark Electronic Search System and the recently released report on Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure. International Trade Law Monitor Initially hosted by the University of Tromso, Norway, this exceptional resource provides information and links related to international trade law. The ITL presents the full texts and where relevant country implementation details of several of the most important conventions and other documents used in International trade.In July 2000, the site (now called Lex Mercatoria) was acquired by Cameron May, an international law publishing firm. Although the initial free information is still available the site has also become a showroom for the firm's products, and its previously efficient and pleasant navigational structure has been changed. Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights This site from the Berkeley Digital Library Sunsite presents a collection of links on Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues with an emphasis on the digital world. Very good and quite extensive. Do not miss the "Quick Bibliography" from the Current Sites database. BitLaw BitLaw is a comprehensive Internet resource on technology law, containing over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues. Excellent and well designed guide. Foreign and International Law Web The foreign and international law web is a service of the Washburn University School of Law Library. Their goal is to provide links to primary foreign and international legal resources, research aids, and sites useful in conducting research in these areas of the law. World Wide Legal Information Association The WWLIA is a non-profit corporation whose mission is described as "making legal information available to the world." Excellent site covering USA, Canada, Australia, UK, New Zealand. Free Advice Free Advice claims to be "The Most Comprehensive Site for Legal Information" and for the U.S it probably is. Written in easy to understand terms it provides a lot of information with regards to business law, bankruptcy law, financial law, international law, etc. A very good site even if you are not from the U.S. CataLaw CataLaw is a meta-index of legal information providing a single gateway to a large number of legal and government indexes on the Internet.Rather unique and quite broad in scope. Do not miss the section on regional law which covers many countries. Jurisexpert Jurisexpert is a law portal on information technologies which includes a law directory of more than 500 websites. Very interesting site. Do not miss the section on useful cards. World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations system of organizations. It administers 21 international treaties dealing with different aspects of intellectual property protection. Despite its complex structure and navigation system ( a trademark of most websites within the UN system) it includes interesting and important information (if you are tenacious enough to explore it fully). Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) The Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is responsible for the administration and processing of the greater part of intellectual property in Canada ( Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights, Industrial designs, and Integrated circuit topographies). EUR-Lex: European Union Law EUR-Lex is designed to keep you up to date on legislation in force in the European Union and new legislation as it is enacted. Several sections (customs, competition policy, taxation, etc.) are quite relevant for the small and medium size businesses. British Patents Information Services This site from the British Library Science Technology and Business (STB) provides information on patent specifications from around the world.Do not miss the very good FAQ and the links to patent and other intellectual property information resources. KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource Provides general information on Intellectual Property Law, particularly as it relates to the US. Interesting site on patents and trademarks. United Nations Commission on International Trade Law The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has the general mandate to further the progressive harmonization and unification of the law of international trade.As for most UN bodies the information provided is rather "arid" but still it is interesting to see how those commissions work. Interesting although limited set of links. GigaLaw GigaLaw.com provides legal information for Internet and technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs and the lawyers who serve them. Interesting site whose main value is the section on articles which covers many aspects of Internet law. CyberSpace Law Center This site is designed to be an evolving resource for those interested in legal issues concerning cyberspace. Do not miss the cybercrime section. Juriscom.net This francophone site is set out to distribute, share and analyse legal information related to regulation of the new communication tools, first and mainly the Internet. It presents legal news, articles, studies, jurisprudence cases and a list of interesting links. Copyright Resources on the Internet This site directs copyright users to the wealth of copyright and fair use information on the Internet. It includes a section on Copyright in the Digital Age. CyberTribunal CyberTribunal is an experimental project, developed by the Centre de recherche en droit public (CRDP) in Montreal, targeting the establishment of a innovative service for the prevention and resolution of conflicts arising in cyberspace. Interesting and innovative.