ISU Sites Carver Co-Lab (Plant Sciences Institute) http://www.plantsciences.iastate.edu/colab/ Economic Development at ISU http://www.iastate.edu/bus/econdev/technologies.shtml Institute for Physical Research & Technology (IPRT) http://www.iprt.iastate.edu/ Office of Sponsored Programs (OSPA) http://www.ospa.iastate.edu/ Pappajohn Center for Entrepreneurship http://www.isupjcenter.org/ Research Park http://www.isupark.org/ SBIR/STTR Assistance /en/sbir_sttr_assistance/ Vice President for Research and Economic Development http://www.vpresearch.iastate.edu/ IP Information Educause (current issues related to copyright) http://www.educause.edu/. Fish and Richardson (several good articles) http://www.fr.com/index.cfm "When Works Pass into the Public Domain." a publication by Laura N. Gasaway's http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm U.S. Copyright Office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ U.S. Title 17 the Copyright Act (U.S. Code on copyright) http://www.copyright.gov/title17/ U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) http://www.uspto.gov - USPTO Patent Examination Guidelines for Computer Related Inventions http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pdf/ciig.pdf - USPTO Software Patentability Flow Chart http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/pdf/flow.pdf Universities and Associations Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) http://www.autm.net/ Council on Government Relations (COGR) http://www.cogr.edu/ Indiana University - Purdue Copyright Management Center http://www.iupui.edu/ Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) http://www.iowalifechanging.com/ Licensing Executives Society (LES) http://www.usa-canada.les.org/ North Carolina State the Teach Act: http://www.provost.ncsu.edu/copyright/toolkit/ Stanford University Fair Use http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ University of California Copyright Primer http://www.ucop.edu/ott/faculty/crprimr.html University of Texas Copyright Crash Course http://www.utsystem.edu/OGC/IntellectualProperty/cprtindx.htm