See the Union for the Public Domain's pages on the following topics

• Database Extraction Rights
• Internet Copyright

Patenting of Surgical Procedures

• Senate Bill 2105 deals with this issue.
• October 1, 1996 article by the PR Newswire Association, Inc. "President Signs Medical Patent Bill; Physicians Freed from Threat of New Medical Procedure Patent Lawsuits". (Reproduced here with permission)
• "Pallin Patent Claims Invalidated; Physicians Free To Perform Sutureless Cataract Surgery Without Threat Of Infringement Litigation", PR Newswire Association, Inc.Friday, March 29, 1996 (Reproduced here with permission).

Other Patent-Related Issues

• Florida Graduate Student Jailed Over Patent Controversy
  • NPR interviewed Peter Taborsky, the graduate student being sued, on Morning Edition. "Disputes Rise Over Intellectual Property Rights." National Public Radio, September 30, 1996; Transcript number 1996-10.
  • "Volatile Mix of Corporate Cash and Academic Ideals", How Florida student ended up in a chain gang. This article appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on July 11, 1996. (Reproduced here with permission).

• "Amazon Tribes Fight Patent on Sacred Vine" from The Dallas Morning News August 28, 1996. (Reproduced here with permission).

• "India government council challenging US drug patent." A story published in Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service on July 23, 1996.

• "How much bad software patents will cost you." from Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service.
• Indigenous Person's Cells Patented. From RAFI Communique, March/April 96. (Please read note on fair use if you would like to download this article).
• UPDATE, September 1996. NIH disclaims patent on human cell line from an indigenous person From RAFI Communique. (Please read note on fair use).

Trademark-Related Issues

• April 8, 1996 article about Gerber and the threat of GATT Sanctions to eliminate Guatemalan Infant Health Law that limited use of Gerber trademark on infant formula. From Corporate Crime Reporter Volume 10, Number 14, April 8, 1996, (Reproduced here with permission).
• Tobacco Puffery An article from the June 1994 edition of Multinational Monitor that examines the controversy between the tobacco industry and the Canadian government over trademark issues. (Reprinted with permission).