Patent and Trademark Law Amendments of 1980: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 6933 ... September 16 and 17, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 218 pages |
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Page 169 - Sutton, chairman of the section of patent, trade-mark, and copyright law of the association.
Page 2 - Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 2, 1987] A BILL To amend title 35, United States Code, with respect to patented processes.
Page 196 - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided: (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner...
Page 196 - Any computer program, defined as "a set of statements or instructions to be used directly or indirectly in a computer to bring about a certain result," can be protected by copyright if it constitutes an original work of authorship.
Page 77 - I believe that today the important factor for an industrial organization is the know-how developed by it — the trade secrets and the techniques; these are not patentable qualities. They are things which are inherent in a company, in its methods; in its management and trained employees; in the kind of machine tools it has; how it uses these tools; and so on.
Page 173 - August, 1977, annual meeting of the Patent, Trademark, and Copyright Law Section of the American Bar Association...
Page 109 - Industrial innovation— the development and commercialization of new products and processes— is an essential element of a strong and growing American economy. It helps ensure economic vitality, improved productivity, international competitiveness, job creation, and an improved quality of life for every American.
Page 111 - That concludes my statement, Mr. Chairman. I will be glad to answer any questions. Senator CULVER.
Page 78 - If the rights to Government* financed inventions are given away to contractors, the Government itself will be promoting the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few large conglomerates.
Page 216 - ... years from the year of its creation, whichever expires first, any person who obtains from the Copyright Office a certified report that the records provided by subsection (d) disclose nothing to indicate that the author of the work is living, or died less than fifty years before, is entitled to the benefit of a presumption that the author has been dead for at least fifty years.