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The Copyright Grab By Pamela Samuelson
For a pretty bad bill on copyright and the Internet, look at HR 2441. The Senate version of this is S.1284. Both bills were introduced with identical text.
CPT presented comments to Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, of the Committee on the Judiciary in the House of Representatives on February 15, 1996.
United States Code Title 17 Copyright Law
URAA, GATT amendments to the US Copyright Law, according to the US Copyright Office
We are developing a separate page on access to legal information.
CPT is doing quite a bit of work on intellectual property and pharmaceutical drugs.
"India government council challenging US drug patent."A story published in Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service July 23, 1996.
"How much bad software patents will cost you." Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service.
An interesting story on "Patenting Human Life." Greg Aharonian's Internet Patent News Service
To take a look at a bill that would establish the PTO as a Government corporation. Fortunately HR 3460 has been held back indefinitely.
United States Code Title 35 Patent Law.
April 8, 1996 article about Gerber and 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), and redisseminated on the Internet 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.
USPTO U.S. Trademark Act.
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