Patents & Trademarks Bibliography

Introduction

These books cover intellectual property -- including patents, copyright,  trademarks, and trade secrets -- and are available at the Dallas Public Library. Also included are related works on how to license, manufacture, and market your invention or other intellectual property. (See also our copyright and trademark bibliographies and our intellectual property page.)

Federal Legal Resources

• Title 35, United States Code. The official U.S. federal laws governing patents. (Also available in electronic version-pdf format.)
• Title 37, Code of Federal Regulations. The codification of the rules published in the Federal Register. (Also available in electronic version-pdf format.)

US Patent and Trademark Office Publications

• Attorneys and Agents Registered to Practice Before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
• Index to the U.S. Patent Classification System.
• Manual of Classification
• Manual of Patent Examining Procedures (MPEP).
• Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Patents.

General Intellectual Property

• The Copyright Handbook. By Stephen Fishman. (346.73048 F537C 2005)
• Nondisclosure Agreements: Protecting Your Trade Secrets and More. By Richard Stim and Stephen Fishman. (346.73048 S858N 2001)
• Patent, Copyright and Trademark. By Stephen Elias and Richard Stim. (346.73048 S858P 2006)
• Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Laws. By Jeffrey M. Samuels. (346.73048 P295 2007)
• Trademark: Legal Care for Your Business and Product Name. By Stephen Elias. (346.73048 E42T 2005)

Patent Guides

• Filing Patents Online: A Professsional Guide. By Sarfaraz Niazi. (346.73048 N577F 2003)
• Game Design: The Art and Business of Creating Games. By Bob Bates. (794.81526 B329G 2001)
• How to Make Patent Drawings Yourself. By Jack Lo and David Pressman. (608.0221 P295 2005)
• The Inventor's Notebook. By Fred Grissom and David Pressman. (346.73048 G869I 2005)
• Nolo's Patents for Beginners. By David Pressman and Richard Stim. (346.73048 P935N 2006)
• Patent It Yourself. By David Pressman. (346.73048 P935 2006)
• Patent Pending in 24 Hours. By Richard Stim and David Pressman. (346.73048 S858P 2007 )
• The Toy and Game Inventor's Handbook. By Richard C. Levy and Ronald O. Weingarter. (688.72068 L668T 2003)
• Web and Software Development: A Legal Guide. By Stephen Fishman. (346.73048 F537W 2004)

Patent Searching

• Patent Searching Tools and Techniques. By David Hunt. (025.06608 P295 2007)
• Patent Searching Made Easy. By David Hitchcock. (025.06608 H674P 2005)

Licensing and Marketing

• All I Need is Money. By Jack Lander. (658.15224 L255A 2005)
• Bringing Your Product to Market --in Less Than a Year. By Don Debelak. (658.575 D286B 2005)
• The Complete Idiots Guide to Cashing in on Your Inventions. By Richard C. Levy. (608.575 L668C 2002)
• The Everything Inventions and Patents Book By Barbara Russell Pitts and Mary Russell Sarao. (608 P692E 2006)
• Free Publicity. By Jeff Crilley. (659 C929F 2003)
• From Patent to Profit: Secrets and Strategies for the Successful Inventor. By Bob DeMatteis. (608.773 D372F 2005)
• The Inventor's Bible: How to Market and License Your Brilliant Ideas. By Ronald Louis Docie. (658.8 D637I 2004)
• License Your Invention. By Richard Stim. (346.73048 S858L 2004)
• The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development. By Kenneth B. Kahn. (658.575 P111 2005)
• Rembrandts in the Attic: Unlocking the Hidden Value of Patents. By Kevin G. Rivette and David Kline. (608.773 R924R 2000)
• Secrets From an Inventor's Notebook. By Maurice Kanbar. (608.0688 K16S 2001)
• Will It Sell?: How to Determine If Your Invention is Profitably Marketable (Before Wasting Money on a Patent). By J. E. White. (608 W585W 2000)

International Patents

• International Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials. By Paul Goldstein. (341.758 G624I 2001)
• Intellectual Property Law in Asia. By Christopher Heath, ed. (346.54048 I61 2003)
• Research Guide to Chinese Patent Law and Practice. By Robert H. Hu. (346.51048 H874R 2002)
• European Patent Law: Law and Procedure Under the EPC and PCT. By Ian Muir. (341.7586 M953E 2002)
• TRIPS, PCT and Global Patent Procurement. By Markus Nolff. (341.7586 N791T 2001)
• Patents Throughout the World. (346.0486 P295 2002)
• PCT Applicant’s Guide. (341.758 W111 1985)

Biographies and Histories

• The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. By Leslie Berlin. (B N949B 2005)
• The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television. By Evan I. Schwartz. (B F236L 2002)
• African Americans in Science, Math, and Invention. By Ray Spangenburg. (509.2273 S735A 2003)
• Edison: Inventing the Century. By Neil Baldwin. (B E234B 1995)
• On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker. Scribner, 2001. By A’Lelia Bundles. (B W177B 2001)
• The Patent Office Pony: A History of the Early Patent Office. By Kenneth W. Dobyns.(352.749 D635P 1997)
• The Telephone Patent Conspiracy of 1876: The Elisha Gray-Alexander Bell Controversy and its Many Players. By A. Edward Evenson. (384.60973 E93T 2000)
• They All Laughed: From Light Bulbs to Lasers: The Fascinating Stories Behind the Great Inventions That Have Changed Our Lives. By Ira Flatow. (609 F586T 1992)
• Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer. By Trevor Pinch and Frank Trocco. (786.7419 P647A 2002)
• The Fire of His Genius: Robert Fulton and the American Dream. By Kirkpatrick Sale. (B F974S 2002)
• Unlocking the Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane. By Seth Shulman. (B C981S 2002)
• Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century. By Charles Slack. (B G658S 2002)
• Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty Year Patent War. By Nick Taylor. (B G696T 2000)
• The Fantastic Inventions of Nikola Tesla. By Nikola Tesla with David Hatcher Childress. (B T337T 1993)
• Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women. By Catherine Thimmesh. (609.2273 T443G 2000)
• Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs and Inventors Who Revolutionized Modern Business. By Jeffrey Young. (609.73 Y73F 1998)