About the Pierce Law's Intellectual Property Mall
The IP Mall, created by Professor Jon R. Cavicchi, has been a highly well received web megasite and portal for well over a decade. The IP Mall was created well before most of the current IP resources were offered by national IP offices, nongovernmental organizations and commercial entities.
Our mission is to offer unique content not available on these other Websites. This content includes:
- Pierce Law produced papers and scholarship
- Public domain content not online (e.g. Congressional Research Service Reports, Copyright Office Appeals Decisions and Compendium and legislative history documents)
- Primary sources of law spanning time periods before other Web collections (e.g. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Appeals Board decisions)
- Unique dedicated topical portals (e.g. Traditional Knowledge Online)
- News (e.g. Blogs, web news matrix and RSS feeds)
- Miscellaneous content from IP Mall users looking for a place to host their works
- Fun stuff (e.g. galleries of famous patents and patent models)
The Hosted Resources section of the IP Mall is dynamic and changes day-to-day as we cannot anticipate the opportunities that present. This presents a challenge in the organization of such an eclectic mix of resources. One tip to best access the site is to use the internal Google search engine in conjunction with our menus and navigation section.
Who are the IP Mall visitors
IP Mall visitors come from a wide range of backgrounds including:
- Law school professors
- Other academics and students
- Lawyers and judges and paralegals
- Business professionals
- Scientists
- Government personnel
- Inventors, publishers and content creators
- Others interested in intellectual property, commerce and technology
No single site can serve all the needs of such a diverse user group but the IP Mall attempts to offer something to appeal to all visitors.
Our assumption is that professional legal researchers use premium (e.g. Lexis and Westlaw), low fee and no fee (e.g. USPTO, Copyright Office, WIPO, GPO, FindLaw, Cornell LII and many others) to find the primary sources of IP law (cases, statutes, treaties, regulations and procedural manuals) as well as proprietary secondary legal sources in mainstream publication.
Submissions
Your suggestions and content contributions are very much wanted. Please feel free to email us as we strive to meet the vision of the Pierce Law Founder and Trustee Chair Emeritus, Robert H. Rines, “You see a need, you fill it.”
Contact us
Jon R. Cavicchi, J.D., LL.M. (I.P.)
Intellectual Property Librarian
Assistant Professor of Research
jcavicchi@piercelaw.edu
Phone: (603) 513-5139
Fax: (603) 228-2322
IP Mall
Franklin Pierce Law Center
2 White Street
Concord, NH 03301 USA
www.ipmall.info
