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Comparative Intellectual Property Law

This guide shares resources that will help you learn about foreign countries' intellectual property law.

Intellectual Property Offices

Introduction

Comparative law involves looking at how different legal systems treat the law.   When considering intellectual property law specifically, the rights and protections afforded to creators and businesses in foreign countries may look very different from what we are familiar with.  The exercise then is one requiring foreign legal research, learning about a foreign legal system and how it creates and publishes law regarding intellectual property.  This guide has resources that helps you do the work.

Databases

Foreign Law

Intellectual Property