Intellectual Property
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Intellectual Property: Recent developments
- Microsoft Antitrust Documents:
- 14-Feb-95: U.S. District Judge Stanley
Sporkin's Microsoft ruling
- 1994/95 GATT / WTO agreement:
- Of the
GATT 1994 / WTO-Agreement,
ANNEX 1C:
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
Rights, Including Trade in Counterfeit Goods (230 K!)
might also be significant.
- The U.S. Supreme Court
- denied Copyright protection for simple directories, indexes
and so on (e.g. U.S. White Pages !) in
its decision of March '91.
The majority opinion for this landmark Information Law decision
Feist Publications vs. Rural Telephone Service
was written by Sandra Day O'Connor.
"Thomas" of the U.S. congress
can provide you with up to-date information on the Copyright Term
Extension Act of 1995 (introduced in the House and the Senate).
- August 15, 1994: The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights
- was established within the Information Policy Committee of the Information Infrastructure Task Force (IITF) to examine IP implications of the NII.
The group has released a preliminary draft of its report, Intellectual Property and the
National Information Infrastructure, on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office WWW
server.
- May 27, 1994: The Technology Board of Trade
- says it serves as a trading floor for companies seeking and/or providing reusable software technology. It assists businesses in defining, valuing and
exchanging intellectual property and provides proven practices for the
transfer of commercial technology.
- Latest news will be discussed in the Usenet-newsgroup
- misc.int-property
What are the relevant treaties and laws ?
a) International treaties and conventions:
This includes listings from LII's
Topical Fields.
- Treaties Dealing with Intellectual Property
- Law Dealing with Technology and Networked Communication
b) U.S. copyright laws:
BFG, Feb-95