Intellectual Property Library : the Pierce Law Advantage
The Premier Source of IP information in the Western Hemisphere - From the Dustiest Law Book to the Most Far off Database!
The Franklin Pierce Law Center has consistently been ranked in the top five IP law schools in the United States since the inception of the IP rankings. The rankings are calculated from votes of active IP professors derived from the Directory of the American Association of Law Schools. So, IP educators around the nation have decided that Pierce Law provides a top IP legal education. Many factors lead IP professors to vote for Pierce Law. One nationally unique asset is the Intellectual Property Library, opened in January 1, 1995. It is the only dedicated academic IP Library in the United States. Many distinguished IP visitors, scholars, fellows, academics and practitioners have shared that this information center is the top English language collection in the world, equaled only by multi-lingual IP Library at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property.
Fall view from the newly expanded IP Library
Unique
Pierce Law is the only law school in the nation with:
- a dedicated IP Global Resource Center classified at the research level of collection development;
- thousands of donated volumes of unique practitioner materials
- a virtual, award winning IP website library and portal, the IP Mall;
- leading edge technology services production such as the IP LAWCAST pod cast service;
- all WIPO publications;
- an IP librarian holding both Juris Doctor and Master of Intellectual Property Law degrees, fifteen years experience, actively publishing articles on IP information and, as a member of the faculty, teaches courses in IP legal research and patent informatics.
Supportive
Pierce Law's IP Global Resource Center is dedicated to supporting the IP capacity building of:
- domestic and international IP professionals;
- IP policy makers;
- IP scholars & their research efforts.
The newly expanded IP Library offers highest quality study space complete with skylights!
Profile
The Pierce Law IP Global Resource Center:
- has collected IP materials on the research level for over three decades;
- has a global reputation actively promoted by domestic and international alumni;
- includes approximately 12,000 print volumes dealing with IP, commerce and technology;
- provides students access to every major English language IP research product available;
- is home to the Homer Blair Patent Model Collection;
- is the recipient of many donations by well known practitioners and corporations;
- over the last five years assisted almost 1,000 patrons from other libraries to find IP materials not otherwise available to them.
The Physical Collection
The Pierce Law IP Global Resource Center's collection supports the largest IP curriculum in the world and covers:
- the IP spectrum from news and practice to highly scholarly works;
- interdisciplinary aspects of IP;
- the synergy of law, technology, science and business;
- English language works in domestic, foreign and international IP law;
- materials from the earliest law books to the most current Web resources;
- continuing education and professional organization materials not available at other law schools
The Virtual IP Collection
Beyond "the four walls" of the physical space is a host on licensed database services that serve scholarly and academic research. The Office of the Intellectual Property Librarian has access to every major IP information provider for purposes of teaching and scholarship. Full access to many of these services are available to the Pierce Law community on campus and at home. A few of these IP related licensed resources include:
- *BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report
- *BNA Intellectual Property Library - U.S.P.Q., IP case law reporter & IP news
- *BNA International Trade Reporter
- *BNA Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal
- *CCH Copyright Law Report
- *CCH IP Library
- *CCH Trademark Law Guide
- *The Economist Intelligence Unit
- *Electronic Commerce & Law Report
- *Global IP Law Service
- IP Mall Website
- *Kluwer Arbitration (Click on International Business tab)
- Managing Intellectual Property
- World Trademark Law Report
The IP Library print collection capacity doubled, a show of dedication to this world renowned information center.
