Maps of Intellectual Property

William Fisher

version 1.3

last updated: June 3, 2014

The links below provide access to native versions of the mindmaps I employ in conjunction with my courses on intellectual property law. For "flash" versions of the maps -- and for explanations of their content, purposes, and status -- see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/tfisher/IP/IPMaps.htm.

• Copyright Law
• Patent Law
• Trademark Law
• Trade Secrets
• Theories of Intellectual Property
• IP and Business Strategy

All of these maps were prepared using the Mindmanager mapping program. They can thus of course be viewed and modified using Mindmanager, but they can also be imported into a variety of other (much less expensive) programs. The program I find most useful for viewing the maps on IOS devices is iThoughts.

The following links provide access to text files, which contain all of the information in the maps in "raw" form. Users who prefer instructional material in traditional outline form can employ the text in these files to build their own outlines.

• Copyright Law (raw)
• Patent Law (raw)
• Trademark Law (raw)
• Trade Secrets (raw)
• Theories of Intellectual Property (raw)
• IP and Business Strategy (raw)

I modify these maps periodically. If you find one of them useful, you should recheck this page periodically to ensure that you have the most up-to-date version.

The maps and all of the collateral slide presentations are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike 2.5 License, the terms of which are available here.