Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws, 2013 Edition, with Full Text & Special Features on CD-ROM

Get the latest legislative developments affecting U.S. intellectual property law.Last year, President Obama signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (P.L. 112-29), enacting the most sweeping changes to patent law in centuries. The myriad provisions contained in this Act will have profound effects on attorneys and inventors for years to come. Bloomberg BNA's Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws, 2013 Edition contains the full text of this Act and provides helpful visual guides that will aid practitioners in understanding the new law and when new provisions will go into effect. This is a must-have resource for patent law practitioners, as it adds the changes enacted into law from May 1, 2012 through November 13, 2012. Most significantly, the 2013 Edition incorporates the many important changes to U.S. patent law set forth in the America Invents Act, including provisions effective March 16, 2013. These changes relate to: Provisions of the America Invents Act implementing the new first-inventor-to-file system Amendments to the Trademark Act relating to the assertion of a federal dilution claim against the owner of a federal registration The amendment to the criminal trademark counterfeiting statute Incorporation of the new patent fee schedule that became effective October 1, 2012 Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws, 2013 Edition includes the entire text of Title 35 (Patents), Title 17 (Copyrights), and Chapters 22 and 63 of Title 15 (Trademarks and Technology Innovation) of the United States Code. Sections of the Code and treaties relating to intellectual property are provided. The 2013 Edition references a continuing resolution that provides funding for the Copyright Office and Patent and Trademark Office at 2012 levels until March 2013. It also includes an updated CD-ROM with the entire text of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, plus the full text of the book, allowing for quick and easy searching. To aid your research, the CD-ROM also provides an easy-to-use chart showing all of the patent law revisions contained in the Act, as well as their effective dates, and a full legislative history of the Act.