Appendix 1
Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
What this service is:
Lawyers, business executives, and regulators across the nation turn to Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
for objective federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.
What it helps you do:
* Stay up to date with timely accounts of significant judicial, legislative, administrative, and enforcement
actions from Washington, DC, the states, and around the world.
* Develop winning strategies and prepare for litigation.
* Track the progress of cases brought by the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade
Commission, and state attorneys general, plus judicial decisions in private cases.
* Follow proposed legislation and appropriations for the enforcement agencies in Congress.
* Improve corporate planning with reliable information on regulatory compliance.
* Protect clients against costly legal violations with guidance on creating and maintaining effective
compliance programs in the U.S. and overseas.
* Monitor international enforcement initiatives by authorities in the European Union, Canada, Japan,
Australia, and other U.S. trading partners.
Major Topics Covered
Class actions
Deceptive practices
Franchising
Joint research, development, and production
ventures
Liberalization of regulated industries
Marketing and distribution of goods and services
Mergers and acquisitions
Misleading advertising
Monopolization
Price discrimination
Price fixing and bid rigging
Restraints of trade
Telemarketing fraud
Trade associations
Tying arrangements
Unfair competition
Banking Report
What this service is:
Banking Report keeps you current with the latest news and analysis of banking legislation, regulatory
policy, litigation, and investment at state and federal levels, from Capitol Hill to key financial centers
around the world.
What it helps you do:
* Be proactive. Concise reports help you assess the impact of new rules, laws, court decisions, or other
legal developments on your clients' services and operations.
* Comply confidently with the latest financial sector regulations from government agencies, including
the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Treasury Department, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
* Get advance warning of developing trends and issues that may affect your business or clients,
including e-banking.
* Track international news for details on banking in the European Union and Japan.
* Go behind the scenes with BNA's seasoned reporters to get the big picture on critical regulatory
actions.
* Monitor public policy decisions and developments that will have an impact your clients or business.
Major Topics Covered
Accounting developments
Bank securities and insurance activities
Capital and disclosure requirements
Deposit insurance rules
Electronic commerce
Fair lending and community reinvestment
developments
Federal and state court cases and other legal
developments
Fiduciary standards for depository institutions
Financial services holding company authority
Government-sponsored enterprises
International finance
Privacy
Reform legislation and regulatory moves
Thrift regulations
Corporate Counsel Weekly
What this service is:
Discover trends on the horizon and stay alert to the full range of developments affecting corporate practice
with the comprehensive news and expert analysis found in Corporate Counsel Weekly.
What it helps you do:
* Advise clients with confidence and stay competitive with accurate, focused, up-to-date coverage of
judicial, legislative, and regulatory issues of concern to corporate counsel.
* Keep up with congressional actions, monitored closely and analyzed by BNA's experienced reporters
and lawyer-editors.
* Assess the effects of current events and changing policies on your business or clients, and take a
proactive stance as new matters arise.
* Understand areas of corporate practice outside your specialty -- the Weekly is especially suitable for
offices with several specialists and for supervisory lawyers who need to be familiar with a broad range of
questions that might come to their attention.
* Quickly scan the latest information with optional e-mail alerts.
Major Topics Covered
Antitrust law
Corporate governance
Corporate political activity
Environmental law
Intellectual property law
International trade law
Labor and employment law
Limited liability companies
Securities law
Trade regulation
Criminal Law Report
What this service is:
For the professional edge in your day-to-day practice, rely on the most timely, objective reporting on
significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law today.
What it helps you do:
* Find out what experienced criminal justice professionals already know -- whether you're a defense
attorney, prosecutor, judge, or researcher.
* Safeguard your client interests and stay up to date with coverage of federal and state court decisions,
federal legislative activities, and administrative developments in criminal law.
* Understand the impact and implications of current rulings that set precedent, examine new statutes, or
tackle controversial issues.
* Be aware of conflicts in the federal courts of appeals on questions of federal criminal law, summarized
in Circuit Split Roundup.
* Follow U.S. Supreme Court criminal cases from filing through oral argument to final disposition.
You're alerted via e-mail as soon as a pertinent decision is made. Detailed information includes titles and
docket numbers, articles on oral arguments, and an annual review of the Court's decisions.
* Make better use of your research time. BNA's experienced lawyer-editors sift through hundreds of
cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals, federal district courts, principal courts of the
states, and the Court of Military Appeals, reporting the decisions that matter most to criminal lawyers.
* Get a national perspective on the latest issues, including actions and proposals by the Justice
Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and other federal agencies, significant federal criminal
legislation, appointments to federal offices, and upcoming conferences, courses, and seminars.
Major Topics Covered
Appeals
Arrest
Capital punishment
Civil liability
Civil rights
Confrontation and cross-examination
Defenses
Double jeopardy
Drugs
Driving
Electronic surveillance and wiretapping
Entrapment
Evidence
Firearms
Forfeiture
Fraud
Grand juries
Guilty pleas
Habeas corpus
Immunity
Interrogation and confessions
Jury trial
Money laundering
Obscenity
Police misconduct
Prisons and jails
Racketeering
Representation by counsel
Search and seizure
Self-incrimination
Sentencing
Sex offenses
State constitutional law
Statutory interpretation
Witnesses
Electronic Commerce & Law Report
What this service is:
Get national and global perspectives on the digital economy with objective, vital news of trends and
developments, insights and legal expertise.
What it helps you do:
* Keep pace with the burgeoning e-commerce marketplace -- whether you're an attorney specializing in
Internet law, a communications company executive responsible for business development, or an intellectual
property lawyer dealing with high-tech IPOs.
* Track significant developments from the U.S. and around the world affecting content and its
distribution in the wide array of electronic formats.
* Make sound decisions for your business or practice based on the current legal, legislative, and
regulatory environment for e-commerce.
* Anticipate change and be prepared to act on proposed, new, and amended legislation and regulations
affecting the digital economy. There's no better way to stay on the cutting edge.
* Save time and avoid information overload with concise, targeted reports on critical news from the elaw world.
* Take an in-depth look at the top news of the week with the exclusive Lead Report, covering the most
significant e-commerce case, event, or trend.
* Get important insights on and analysis of legal trends in the new economy from BNA's network of
experienced reporters, editors, and correspondents.
* Learn at a glance what topics are hot, and make sure you never miss a vital development.
Major Topics Covered
Consumer protection laws
Copyright and trademark issues
Cryptography
Database protection
Defamation
Domain name disputes
Electronic signatures
Free speech/First Amendment issues
Information licensing
Internet governance
Internet-related telecommunications regulation
Jurisdiction
Network security
Online contracting
Online gambling
Online marketing
Privacy
Trade regulation
Employee Benefits Library
What this service is:
Experienced employee benefits practitioners trust the Library's timely, exclusive reports, objective expert
analysis, and accurate, fully indexed source documents for answering questions from employees, clients,
and colleagues.
What it helps you do:
* Find the guidance you need to organize, prioritize, and analyze the expanding body of employee
benefits law and policy.
* Get information in a clear, "how-to" style that goes well beyond a simple restatement of statutes and
regulations. Handle inquiries on virtually any topic with confidence.
* Easily access the full text of more than 6,000 employee benefits cases, from federal and state courts,
NLRB, and arbitrators, complete with BNA's exclusive explanatory headnotes, plus Private Letter Rulings
and Technical Advice Memoranda dating back to 1980.
* Manage compliance responsibilities with hundreds of interactive forms that make your reporting,
recordkeeping, filing, and disclosure obligations easier. Timely updates keep you informed of changes in
compliance requirements.
* Have the resources you need to effectively represent clients before the courts, the Internal Revenue
Service, and the Department of Labor.
* Streamline your administrative activities. Planning and design tools are built to help you evaluate any
gray areas and spot potential trouble.
* Focus on tax-related compensation and benefits issues with sophisticated analysis by top practitioners
in the portfolios component.
* Explore the language of relevant statutes, regulations, and source documents from the IRS, SEC,
PBGC, and PWBA, reproduced verbatim.
* Stay on top of current developments with an e-mail newsletter highlighting the week's top stories, and
back issues of BNA's Pension & Benefits Reporter, the industry's premier weekly news service.
Major Topics Covered
Accounting issues
Age and sex discrimination
Cafeteria and flexible benefit plans
Cash balance and hybrid pension plans
Direct compensation design and administration
Economic data
Employee fringe and welfare benefits
Employee tax issues
ERISA litigation and plan disqualification
Executive compensation and stock option plans
Federal EEO and discrimination laws
Fiduciary duty and prohibited transactions
Health and welfare plans: reporting and
disclosure
Health care benefits
International compensation
Leave programs and alternative scheduling
Pension plan administration
Pension, profit-sharing and other retirement-type
plans
Plans of tax-exempt and governmental
organizations
Qualified retirement plans
Reporting and disclosure
Sales compensation
Securities law considerations
Specialized qualified plans: target, age-weighted
Unemployment compensation programs
Variable and incentive pay programs
Wage-hour and wage payment rules
Workers' compensation
Environment & Safety Library
What this service is:
This powerful, easy-to-use, continuously updated research collection of federal and state laws, regs,
documents, and compliance tools is the only source you need for environment and safety information.
What it helps you do:
* Get thorough coverage of the complete spectrum of environment and safety issues, with seamlessly
linked full-text materials, objective reports, and editorial enhancements.
* Make sense of your compliance requirements under federal and state programs by consulting original
editorial analysis and interpretation.
* Monitor federal, state, and international developments with BNA's objective, up-to-the-minute reports
and alerts on a full range of subjects.
* Locate data on federal regulations governing tens of thousands of chemicals with the quickest, easiest
guide available.
* Expand your horizons with extensive international information, including Canadian and Mexican
environment and safety laws and regs, European Union environmental directives and regs, country profiles,
and important treaties.
* Keep pace with decisional trends by reviewing thousands of significant rulings by federal and state
courts and administrative agencies in full text, headnoted and classified by BNA legal editors.
* Streamline your reporting and recordkeeping obligations with interactive forms for federal and state
compliance.
* Never miss another deadline with a five-year calendar of legal and regulatory compliance dates.
* Obtain hard-to-find documents, including administrative and agency guidance and policy materials.
* Find whatever you're looking for fast, with BNA's unique research aids, directories, and expertly
prepared topical indexes.
* Have complete confidence in the integrity of the information you're using. More than 80 BNA editorial
and subject-matter experts organize, edit, analyze, and update the Library — so you don't have to.
Major Topics Covered
Air pollution
ANSI standards scopes
Canadian laws and regulations
Chemical manufacturing and regulation
Compliance deadlines
Environmental due diligence
European Union directives and regulations
Federal statutes, regulations, guidance/agency
documents, and executive orders
Food and drug regulation
Food safety
Hazmat transport
International treaties, bilateral agreements,
conventions, environmental laws and
regulations, contacts
Mexican laws and regulations
Mines and mining safety
NAFTA
Occupational safety and health
OSWER directives
Pesticides
Right-to-know
Solid, hazardous, and radioactive waste
State environmental statutes and regulations
State safety statutes and regulations for OSHAapproved states
Test methods
Toxic substances
Waste management, disposal, and cleanup
Water pollution
Family Law Reporter
What this service is:
As the only nationally oriented family law information service available, the Reporter is your most reliable
guide to important new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues.
What it helps you do:
* Review appellate court cases, legislative and regulatory news, and other developments in key areas of
family law from across the country with this one-of-a-kind resource.
* Find information on a multitude of state and federal issues, especially when the law in your state isn't
settled or precedent is against you.
* Determine at a glance which of the family law matters considered by the U.S. Supreme Court carry the
most potential for impact on your cases and clients.
* Depend on BNA's expert analysis to interpret legal trends and developments.
* Understand what litigation strategies are working, which arguments the courts are accepting and which
they're rejecting.
* Get quick access to essential source materials, including the full text of selected federal statutes and
regulations, text of uniform acts adopted by the states, and brief summaries of state divorce laws.
* Understand divorce-related taxation issues with the Tax Guide, featuring tax statutes and regulations,
detailed analysis, and useful forms.
* Ensure that you never miss a critical legal development.
Major Topics Covered
Adoption
Alimony
Bankruptcy and marital debts
Child abduction
Child custody
Child support
Domestic partnership and non-marital
relationships
Domestic torts
Equitable distribution
Grandparents' rights
IRS rulings
Joint tenancy
Health Care Fraud Report
What this service is:
Military benefits
Paternity
Pensions
Prenuptial agreements
Property rights
Separation agreements
Surrogate parenthood and assisted conception
Taxes and divorce planning
Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction
Enforcement Act
Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
Visitation
A complete yet concise synthesis of one of today's fastest growing legal specialties, the Report monitors a
broad range of health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care
organizations, and federal and state programs.
What it helps you do:
* Protect your company or clients with inside information on a variety of current fraud and abuse topics,
complete with expert analysis.
* Reduce your risks by staying up to date on pertinent legislative, regulatory, and legal developments at
federal and state levels. Be aware of policy changes in the private sector.
* Prepare to face increased scrutiny from federal agencies charged with enforcement of anti-fraud
measures, as well as from whistleblowers.
* Learn how to prevent and detect fraud where you work, and how to report suspected fraud to the
government.
* Follow federal health care anti-fraud initiatives and enforcement efforts at the Health Care Financing
Adminstration, Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, FBI, Department of Justice, and
other government agencies.
* Understand the civil and criminal provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
* Save valuable reading and research time. Track federal and state legislation and hearings, legal
decisions and settlements, conferences and meetings, and health care association activities.
* Gain insights from analysis and perspective pieces by recognized experts and other special reports.
* Have significant documents in full text at your fingertips. Consult original language to form your own
interpretations.
* Get the right amount of data and detail on health care fraud and abuse in just one manageable, wellorganized source.
Major Topics Covered
Anti-kickback
Billing
Civil and criminal penalties
Claims processing
Clinical laboratories
Contractor fraud
Elder abuse
Embezzlement
False Claims Act
Home health
Hospitals
Hotlines
Internet fraud
Investigations
Managed care
Medicare/Medicaid
Medical errors
Nursing homes
Overpayments
Patient dumping
Pharmaceuticals
Quality of care
Research fraud
Stark Law compliance
Health Care Policy Report
What this service is:
BNA uncovers more behind-the-scenes information about health care regulation and policy -- and covers it
more thoroughly and accurately -- than any other news source.
What it helps you do:
* Closely monitor and analyze federal, state, and private-sector health care policy proposals, debates, and
responses. Know the top stories as well as simmering background issues and emerging trends.
* Find out what health insurers, insurance regulators, employers, tax specialists, consumer groups, health
care providers, HMOs, fraud investigators, and other interested parties -- and the professionals who advise
and represent them -- are saying and doing.
* Review unbiased, on-the-scene reporting from the largest number of editors and reporters covering
Capitol Hill, Congress, and the federal agencies, plus state correspondents posted in key locations
throughout the country.
* Get the same analysis and information relied on by the nation's most powerful decisionmakers,
lobbyists, industry executives, and association leaders.
* Know what's ahead, to better influence the direction of policy or prepare for changes.
* Get news unreported elsewhere, courtesy of BNA's extensive reporting staff that reports facts and
figures from courtrooms, hearing rooms, and boardrooms across the country to keep you up to date.
* Discover how organizations and companies in the private sector are dealing with issues, confronting
problems, and implementing solutions.
* Gain added insights with Analysis & Perspective articles, interviews, special reports, and survey and
study findings of influential research groups on health care matters.
* Read what you need, using the Report's front-page summaries and indexes to focus on your interests -then delve into the articles that matter most to you and your clients or company.
* Trust the publication that has set the standard in health care news coverage.
Major Topics Covered
Access
Cost containment
Drug coverage for seniors
E-health
ERISA and employee benefits policy
Hospital and physician reimbursement
Managed care
Medical devices
Medical errors
Medical savings accounts
Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP
Organ transplants
Pharmaceuticals
Physician bargaining
Plan regulation
Plan liability
Privacy
State efforts
Telemedicine
Health Law Report
What this service is:
Law firms and attorneys specializing in health law trust BNA to keep them up to date with the latest legal
developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation,
rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.
What it helps you do:
* Cover every legal discipline that affects your clients or organization, all in one place.
* Reduce reading and research time. Have a complete source for timely legal, legislative, regulatory, and
health care news and trends, as well as an archive disc from which to retrieve previous articles.
* Make decisions with confidence after reviewing in-depth Analysis and Perspective articles.
* Spot and assess trends in health care law quickly and accurately. Put key developments into
perspective. Anticipate, act on, and influence changes.
* Determine at a glance the most important health law development when you turn to the Lead Report
feature each week.
* Quickly track the progress of key legislation and regulatory activities with congressional and
regulatory calendars.
* Protect your clients. Reduce or eliminate liability with advance information concerning what's on the
horizon and how it will affect them -- and your practice.
* Plan your case strategies effectively. Know the latest arguments being made in the courts and which
ones are prevailing.
Major Topics Covered
Abortion
AIDS
Antitrust
Bankruptcy and finance
Bioethics
Drugs and devices
ERISA
Fraud and abuse
Health care policy
Health plan regulation
Insurance
Joint ventures
Managed care
Medical staff
Medicaid
Medicare
Mental health
Occupational health and safety
Patient management
Professional liability
Provider rights
Reimbursement state programs
Reproductive rights
Taxation
Labor & Employment Law Library
What this service is:
Have a complete resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of the field: fair employment
practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management
relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.
What it helps you do:
* Support all aspects of your research into federal and state labor and employment law issues -decisions, statutes, regulations, litigation, negotiations, trends, and other new developments, plus
explanations, insights, and commentary -- all in one place.
* Access the nation's most widely used and respected labor and employment service, BNA's Labor
Relations Reporter , comprised of all these well-organized component services, serving your specific
information needs for decisions, reference, or notification.
* Ensure you never miss a case on point by using BNA's trusted, exclusive classification outlines, long
regarded as the industry standard, to facilitate retrieval of all pertinent decisions.
* Speed and refine your research with precise, timesaving headnotes prepared by BNA legal editors,
briefing the facts and court's rationale for each point of law in a case.
* Stay ahead of the week's most significant labor and employment law developments, summarized in
Analysis/News & Background Information.
* Investigate Americans with Disabilities Act law with Cases decided under the ADA, Rehabilitation Act
of 1973, and state laws, going back to 1974; Manual with practical, easy-to-use guidance on complying
with the Act's provisions; and Newsletter reporting on the latest developments.
* Handle Collective Bargaining Negotiations and Contracts with a thorough how-to Manual including
sample clauses, grievance guide, and coverage of settlements; and Bulletin tracking the latest
developments.
* Understand Fair Employment Practices with federal and state Cases going back to 1965; Manual with
full text of federal and summaries of state statutes, regulations, and policy statements, explanations of EEO
rules and regs, and policy guidelines and applications; and Newsletter covering the latest developments.
* Review Individual Employment Rights with federal and state Cases going back to 1986; Manual with
full text of federal and summaries of state statutes, regulations, and policy statements, state-by-state
overview, state directories, and policy guidelines and applications; and Newsletter monitoring the latest
developments.
* Be aware of significant Labor Arbitration & Dispute Settlements with full-text cases; and refer to
Arbitration Rules and Procedures in full text, plus a directory of labor arbitrators.
* Explore every aspect of Labor-Management Relations with Decisions issued by the National Labor
Relations Board and federal and state courts going back to 1984, plus headnotes going back to 1967; Labor
Relations Expediter's topic-by-topic explanations of and status reports on key labor laws and practices; and
State Labor Laws descriptions and summaries.
* Examine Wages & Hours with federal and state Cases going back to 1959; and Manual with full text of
federal and summaries of state statutes, regulations, and policy statements, and Department of Labor WageHour Division opinion letters, plus editorial analysis.
Major Topics Covered
Absenteeism and turnover
Affirmative action/diversity
Age bias and compulsory retirement
Americans with disabilities
Benefit plans
Collective bargaining
Contract negotiation and enforcement
Discrimination
Drug and alcohol testing
Employment-at-will
Employment testing
Fair employment practices
Family and medical leave
Fetal protection
Handling grievances
Hiring
Hours of work
Independent contractors
Individual employment rights
Jurisdiction and procedure
Labor arbitration
Labor-management relations
Layoffs and shutdowns
Leave rights
Minimum wage
Overtime pay
Pay equity
Pension law/ERISA
Political activities
Privacy
Right to information
Safety and health
Sexual harassment
Smoking in the workplace
Strikes and slowdowns
Temporary and leased workers
Termination
Union organizing
Wages and hours
Work rules and discipline
Workers' compensation
US Law Week
What this service is:
There's no more complete, authoritative way to keep up with the most significant cases and key legislative,
regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law.
What it helps you do:
* Determine at a glance which of the myriad decisions handed down each week carry the most potential
for impact. BNA lawyer-editors sift through thousands of federal and state court and administrative cases,
to select and summarize those that establish new precedents, address new statutes, contribute to emerging
legal doctrines, tackle current controversies, or further splits in the Circuits.
* Quickly ascertain the points of law discussed with BNA's unique explanatory headnotes.
* Link instantly to the full text of all reported cases on a subscribers-only Website.
* Receive citable print copies of the full text of all U.S. Supreme Court decisions as soon as they're
issued, including official and BNA headnotes, citation, and counsel listings.
* Track every Supreme Court petition and case on the docket, from filing to final disposition. Supreme
Court Today on the Web is a continuously cumulated database giving you instant access to rulings,
opinions, and summaries of arguments, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The print version provides
weekly coverage of all proceedings.
* Keep up with other important legal developments, non-decisional and pre-decisional, across
specialized fields. Count on e-mail notification for important alerts.
* Depend on BNA's expert analysis and perspective to spot and interpret legal trends and developments.
Understand what litigation strategies are working, which arguments the courts are accepting and which
they're rejecting.
* Save time and money. Get all the cases and legal news you need to stay on the cutting edge in one
convenient resource The nation's top lawyers say they wouldn't dare practice without U.S. Law Week.
Major Topics Covered
Antitrust
Bankruptcy
Business regulation
Civil procedure
Civil rights
Constitutional law
Criminal law
Employee benefits
Employment law
Environment
Family law
Federal contracts
Health care
Intellectual property
Local government law
Mass media
Product liability
Securities
Taxation
Telecommunications
ABA/BNA Manual on Professional Conduct
What this service is:
Well known among the nation's lawyers as the most authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually
every aspect of attorney conduct and legal ethics, trust the Manual to help you practice ethically.
What it helps you do:
* Protect yourself, your clients, and your practice, in a law firm or a corporation. Consult the Manual as
soon as a professional conduct question arises and avoid malpractice suits and disciplinary actions.
* Save time by reviewing the Manual's topical discussions of issues. Each Practice Guide includes a brief
overview of the topic, detailed background information and analysis of the law, and descriptions of how
courts and ethics committees have applied the law in particular fact situations
* Stay ahead with Current Reports on recent court decisions, ethics opinions, disciplinary actions, and
other news, all fully indexed.
* Train new associates and other personnel using the Manual's real-life examples.
* Refer to the full text of American Bar Association standards and ethics opinions, materials indicating
how state ethics rules differ from ABA models, text of other relevant codes, and synopses of opinions by
state and local bar associations.
* Take it from the top authority. Know you're getting the definitive word on the law of being a lawyer.
Major Topics Covered
Advertising
Bar associations
Clients
Colleagues
Confidentiality
Conflicts of interest
Discipline
Disqualification
Ethics opinions
Fees
Government employment
Intellectual Property Library
What this service is:
Lawyer-client relationship
Malpractice
Misrepresentation
Model codes and standards
Obligations to third parties
Professional responsibility
Regulation of bar
Sexual harassment
Trial publicity
Unauthorized practice
Build your practice in a dynamic legal field with the most comprehensive collection of resources available
on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law — cases, statutes, regulations,
analytical materials, and more — all easily searchable.
What it helps you do:
* Get fast access to the full text of cases published in U.S. Patents Quarterly® and USPQ Second Series,
the most authoritative case reporting service in intellectual property law for more than 70 years.
* Review all cases since 1987 (USPQ2d volume 1 to the present), plus Federal Circuit and U.S. Supreme
Court decisions since 1982 (USPQ volumes 215-31). Consult the archive for cases from 1946-86 (USPQ
volumes 68-231). Cases reported earlier are available in print.
* Explore a wealth of intellectual property decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals
(including the Federal Circuit), U.S. Court of Federal Claims (and its predecessor, U.S. Claims Court), U.S.
District Courts, Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark
Trial and Appeal Board, U.S. Tax Court, state courts, and various special courts. The Library publishes
decisions often weeks before they appear anywhere else.
* Obtain precise search results with intuitive, easy-to-use search templates. Link instantly to and from
cross-referenced citations, footnotes, and indexes.
* Retrieve all cases on point with BNA's exclusive classification system, long regarded as the industry
standard. Classification numbers corresponding between USPQ and USPQ Second Series are listed in an
Outline Conversion Table.
* Determine quickly which rulings boost your arguments with headnotes prepared by BNA legal editors
that summarize the facts and court's rationale for each point of law addressed, in every case.
* Keep current with weekly updates on the latest decisions. Spot legal trends early on.
* Find all USPQ cases published in other reporting services with a Parallel Citations Table.
* Have at your fingertips the full text of all federal IP statutes and regulations. Statutes include Title 35
(Patents), Title 17 (Copyrights), Title 15 Chapter 22 (Trademarks), and Title 15 Chapter 63 (Technology
Innovation) of the U.S. Code. Regulations include Volume 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, plus
related provisions and policy pronouncements from other agencies — all fully indexed.
* Gain insights on IP law with the comprehensive analysis and commentary provided in Patents and the
Federal Circuit, a treatise by patent litigator Robert L. Harmon, available to Web subscribers (or in print,
separately, from BNA Books).
Major Topics Covered
Biotechnology
Cable TV and digital audio recording technology
Computer software protection
Copyrights
Derivative works
Dilution
Electronic commerce
Fair use
First-to-file patent system
Generic drugs
Genetic engineering
"On sale" and public use
Import restrictions
Inequitable conduct
Internet
Patents
Product configuration
PTO procedures
Public performance
Software protection
Tariff and trade agreements
Technology innovation
Trade secrets
Trademarks
Unfair competition
Patents Trademark & Copyright Journal
What this service is:
Count on BNA for uniquely objective, comprehensive news of the most important intellectual property
cases, statutes, trends, and other key developments in all areas of the law.
What it helps you do:
* Safeguard client interests with confidence. Keep up to date with the latest intellectual property
legislation, regulations, litigation, industry news, and selected international developments across the full
spectrum of issues.
* Receive timely notice of recent court decisions, issued by the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the
Federal Circuit, and U.S. Court of Claims. Access the full text of reported cases on a special subscribersonly Website.
* Track the progress of proposals before Congress with at-a-glance tables of legislative and regulatory
activity.
* Be aware of new rules promulgated by the Copyright Office, PTO, International Trade Commission,
and other agencies.
* Review policy statements from the American Intellectual Property Association, U.S. Trademark
Association, and other trade and professional organizations. Read coverage of conferences and seminars
when you can't attend.
* Anticipate changes that may affect your practice, with expert analysis of issues and commentaries by
leading practitioners.
* Understand the impact of major intellectual property developments on various industries. Consider
their effects on antitrust and unfair competition laws.
* Get the language you need to make interpretations and decisions with accuracy. The Journal includes
full or partial text of key legislation, committee reports, judicial and administrative actions, agency rules,
speeches, and more.
* Don't be blindsided by late-breaking news. Keep up with colleagues, keep clients informed, and keep
your competitive edge.
Major Topics Covered
Best mode
Biotechnology
Cable TV and digital audio recording technology
Claim construction
Compilations
Computer software
Derivative works
Dilution
Doctrine of equivalents
Fair use
False advertising
First-to-file patent system
Generic drugs
Genetic engineering
Idea/expression determination
Inequitable conduct
Intent to use
International patent harmonization
Likelihood of confusion
Means plus function claims
Merger
Obviousness
"On sale" and public use
Opposition
Preemption
Product configuration
Public performance
Substantial similarity
Tariff and trade agreements
Trademark actual use requirements
Pension & Benefits Reporter
What this service is:
Monitor the laws, regulations, cases, and issues that influence pension and benefits policy, design, and
administration, and base your decisionmaking on a complete collection of authoritative pension reference
documents and forms.
What it helps you do:
* Stay on top of news and trends in today's fast-paced pension and benefits arena. Get the inside story on
federal and state legislative, legal, regulatory, and industry developments, delivered by BNA's national
network of reporters and correspondents.
* Have the information you need to plan and administer the best possible pension and employee benefits
package for your company.
* Ease compliance with changing statutory requirements. Track the progress of proposed and final
legislation and regulations. Monitor enforcement efforts.
* Consult verbatim reprints of important documents, including IRS, Labor Department, and Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation rules, announcements, notices, letters, and forms, plus major decisions of
courts, agencies, and arbitrators.
* Be aware of state and local government initiatives affecting pension and health benefit plans. Find out
about labor programs.
* Advise clients with confidence. You'll be on target every time with the full text of compliance
provisions.
* Understand pension-related tax legislation and policy.
* Trust the information service that's been publishing since ERISA was enacted in 1974.
Major Topics Covered
Age discrimination
Benefits policies and practices
Collective bargaining
Deferred compensation
Employee stock ownership plans
Employee stock options
Enforcement
ERISA
Executive compensation
Federal compliance and regulatory directives
Health benefits
Health care reform
Health cost containment
Investments
Legal issues
Multiemployer plans
Pension and tax legislation
Plan terminations
Retiree health benefits
Revenue rulings and procedures
Securities regulation
Social Security
State and local government plans
Tax policy and guidance
Product Safety & Liability Reporter
What this service is:
This authoritative report keeps your finger on the pulse of all significant developments and issues in
product safety and liability, and provides the resource materials you need to better represent your clients.
What it helps you do:
* Protect your business or clients with accurate, objective news of legislative proposals, regulatory
changes, agency actions, and court decisions relating to product safety and liability.
* Comply confidently with government requirements by finding out sooner about changes to the
Consumer Product Safety Act and other relevant statutes and regulations.
* Learn about product recalls and enforcement actions that may affect your business or clients.
* Depend on BNA's expert analysis to spot legal trends early --developments are often reported months
ahead of other publications -- and assess their impact on the value and strength of your cases.
* Find out about litigation developments usually unavailable from other sources, including pre-trial
filings and decisions, evidentiary rulings, and verdicts and settlements.
* Know what litigation strategies your adversaries and colleagues are using, and how the courts are
responding
* Put significant developments into perspective and determine what they mean for your practice. Leading
practitioners regularly offer their views.
* Stay up to date without taking too much time. Easy-to-read, well-organized highlights let you see
instantly which articles are of interest to you, so you can skip right to them.
* Rely on authoritative, absolutely unbiased reporting -- appreciated by plaintiffs' and defense attorneys,
judges, regulators, corporate counsel alike.
Major Topics Covered
Asbestos
Building and construction equipment
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Drugs and medical devices
Electrical equipment
Enforcement actions
Expert testimony
Farm equipment
Industrial machinery
Motor vehicles
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pending litigation
Product recalls
Sports equipment
Toxic products
Tobacco
Securities Regulation & Law Report
What this service is:
Be alert to federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting,
with objective coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading
Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.
What it helps you do:
* Track legislative and regulatory proposals and actions affecting securities laws, futures regulation,
accounting issues, and related matters.
* Be prepared to react quickly to changes in policy. Track congressional hearings and debates, and be
aware of the views of leaders in the public and private sectors.
* Understand decisions issued by courts and administrative agencies. Follow federal and state civil and
criminal court proceedings.
* Ensure compliance with complex requirements. Comprehensive, up-to-date information on SEC and
CFTC regulations and FASB actions enables you to advise clients and colleagues with confidence.
* Review summaries of key No-Action and Interpretive Letters, full text of selected documents,
interviews with key officials, and coverage of relevant state developments.
* Cut your reading time. Find out about the most important developments in your field every week,
without having to wade through unrelated material.
* Integrate new case strategies and theories into your practice.
* Accurately prepare or review proxy materials, financial statements, and other annual meeting materials
filed with the SEC.
* Reap the advantages of BNA's 30 years of expertise. Our experienced lawyer-editors bring a thorough
understanding of the profession to in-depth analyses of significant cases, trends, and other developments.
Major Topics Covered
Accounting
Antifraud
Arbitration
Broker-dealer regulations
Corporate governance
Derivatives
Disciplinary actions
Disclosure
Enforcement activities
Financial statement preparers
Global markets
Insider trading
Investment advisers
International developments
Jurisdiction
Market regulation
Municipal securities
Political contributions
Mutual funds
PSLRA
Securities litigation reform
Self-regulatory organizations
Soft dollars and related issues
Tax Management Portfolios & Tax Practice Library
Expert Analysis
* More than 170 U.S. Income Portfolios-including Real Estate and Compensation Planning Portfoliosoffering exhaustive analysis on topics of federal taxation covering Accounting and Returns, Deductions and
Credits, Partnerships and Corporations, Special Pass-Through Entities, Special Corporate Problems,
Procedure and Administration
* More than 70 Portfolios scrutinize topics of estates, gifts and trusts planning
* Tax Practice Series addresses everyday questions on all areas of federal tax planning
* More than 70 Portfolios written by the world's foremost authorities on foreign income and transfer
pricing issues. Portfolios cover Foreign Tax Credit, Business Operations in the United Kingdom and other
primary countries, Branch Profits Tax, Source of Income Rules
* The nine Portfolios comprising the Transfer Pricing series includes Joint Venture Strategies, Transfer
Pricing Record-Keeping, Audit Management, Advance Pricing Agreements, Appeals Office and Litigation
Strategy and Tactics, and Competent Authority Procedures
Practice Tools
* Hundreds of model documents
* Detailed sample plans
* Checklists
* Elections
* Sample tax returns
* Tables, Charts, and Lists
* International Treaties and Agreements
* Bibliography
* Working papers
* Indexes
* Other practice aids
Primary Sources
* Interactive IRS Forms and State Forms
* Full text of the IRC
* Final, Temporary, and Proposed Regulations
* IRS Documents — including Rev. Ruls., Rev. Procs., Notices and Announcements, PLRs and TAMs
* IRS Publications
* Full Text of Federal Cases from all federal courts from 1985 to date; Tax Court regular opinions from
1942 to date
* Selected full text of legislation with committee reports
* Tables, Charts, and Lists
* Circular 230
* ISPs for the Current Year
* Tax Treaties — providing all relevant material for interpreting U.S. tax agreements, including texts,
technical explanations, legislative histories, judicial authority, and more
* All State Tax Codes and Regulations by State
* State Supreme court Tax Cases (1980-present)
News and Developments
* Daily Tax Highlights
* Tax Management Weekly Report
Journals and Special Reports
* The Memorandum — biweekly commentary from BNA Tax Management’s Advisory Boards on
current tax issues, trends, and techniques, and ongoing coverage of business tax planning
* Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal
* International Journal
* Compensation Planning Journal
* Real Estate Journal
Major Topics Covered
Transfers to Controlled Corporations
Travel and Transportation Expense
Net Operating Losses
Family Partnerships
Asset Protection Planning
Lifetime Trusts
Valuation
Life Insurance
Foreign Taxation
Branch Profits Tax
Gross Income
Deductions
Tax Credits
C Corporations and Pass-through Entities
Compensation Planning
Estates and Trusts
Exempt Organizations and Private Foundations