(28 May 2003) Last week, a legal professional asked about information services that perform common law trademark research.

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You may find some of these articles helpful:

1) Kevin R. Harwell, Resources for Searching Common Law Trademarks, Reference & User Services Quarterly, June 22, 2000 (available on LexisNexis)

2) Susan E. Gindin, Researching Trademarks, Information Law, 1998, available at URL http://www.info-law.com/tmsearch.html

3) Martin Schwimmer, Dear Abby: Should I Retain a Trademark Lawyer?, Trademark Blog, December 03, 2002, available at URL http://trademark.blog.us/blog/2002/12/03.html

4) Conducting a Trademark Search, Nolo Legal Encylopedia, 2003, available at URL http://www.nolo.com/lawcenter/ency/article.cfm/objectid/
79BB0841-5898-40C3-A441E98A7494A853/catID/D8932879
-DC34-43DF-BF65FC92D55FEE5D

5) Genie Tyburski, Minding the Web, Law Office Computing, Dec/Jan 2001, available at URL http://www.lawofficecomputing.com/about_us/tyburski.pdf

6) Genie Tyburski, Tracking Trademarks on the Web, The Virtual Chase, September 27, 2002, available at URL https://www.virtualchase.com/articles/archive/tracking_trademarks.html