Bills to implement WIPO treaties ignite debate; congressional legislation has drawn fire over such issues as fair use and liability of OSPs
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Legislation to implement World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright and Performance/Phongrams treaties and to regulate online service providers (OSPs) was pending as of Oct 1997. Issues include the effect of the anticircumvention provisions on fair-use and public domain material. Treaty implementation and ratification have been tied to the outcome of the debate over OSPs liability for infringing transmissions on their networks.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Patent law; protecting software
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Bettering the chance of successful enforcement in the spiralling number of new software patents is discussed. Patent owners should be proactive and search conduct prior-art searches fir anything that will impact the novelty of the method described in the patent. Searching both patent and nonpatent prior art is always essential.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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Recent IP legislation is most sweeping in yuears; it includes broad changes to patent law as well as the new anti-cybersquatting statute
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The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 1999 is discussed, and is a wide-ranging law containing the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, adding further protections for owners of trademarks and altering US patent law in the most fundamental way since the Patent Act of 1952.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 2000
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