Secondary Sources
The best secondary source to consult if you know nothing about a particular legal topic. It's covers almost all of them.
What is a legal encyclopedia.
The table available in Westlaw and Lexis and on the web that links the popular name of a legislative act to its public law number and where it has been codified in the U.S.C.
What is the popular name table?
The federal statutory code is the U.S.C., the equivalent for regulations is ____________.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations?
/S
What is within the same sentence?
TTAB
A secondary source that both collects ALL of the relevant primary authority and also provides examples of situations where the plaintiff prevails and where the defendant prevails. Most people know it by its initials.
What is an ALR annotation?
The U.S.C. title covering copyright?
What is title 17?
The official federal session law, statutes organized chronologically, is the United States Statutes at Large. The official chronological compilation of regulations as well as proposed regulations is _________________.
What is the Federal Register?
/P
What is within the same paragraph?
PTAB
What is the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?
The most authoritative treatise on copyright law?
The U.S.C. title covering trademarks?
What is title 15?
One is passed by a legislature, one is promulgated by an agency. The first one authorizes the second.
What is a statute and a regulation?
The procedure for locating additional relevant cases on the same legal topic if all we have is a single case on that topic.
What is the "One Good Case" method?
MPEP
What is the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure?
An authoritative treatise on trademark law.
What is McCarthy on Trademarks & Unfair Competition; Callman on Unfair Competition, Trademarks and Monopolies; or Gilson on Trademarks?
The U.S.C. title covering patents?
What is Title 35?
The website where it is possible to search the for recently promulgated regulations with their preambles as well as proposed regulations.
What is federalregister.gov?
A summary of each legal issue in a legal opinion. They appear before the opinion itself.
What is a headnote?
TMEP
What is the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure?
An authoritative treatise on patent law?
What is Moy's Walker on Patents or Chisum on Patents?
This is the tab of the page of each code section in the U.S.C. in Westlaw that links to a list of cases interpreting the code section organized by topic?
What is the Notes of Decisions tab?
The title of the C.F.R. where copyright, trademark, and patent regulations are codified.
What is Title 37?
In the expression 99k213, the 99 and the k213.
What is the topic and the keynumber?
TBMP
What is the Trademark Board Manual of Procedure?