Selected Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition

Download or read book Selected Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition written by Roger E. Schechter and published by West Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patent coverage includes the First Inventors Defense Act of 1999 (providing limited defenses to prior inventors charged with infringement of certain method patents); the Patent Term Guarantee Act of 1999 (which attempts to guarantee that patent applications will issue within three years of the original application); and the Domestic Publication of Foreign Filed Patent Applications Act of 1999. Trademark coverage includes the new Anticyberpiracy Consumer Protection Act (Internet domain name disputes); and the Trademark Amendments Act of 1999. Copyrights are featured in coverage of the Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 and the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act of 1999.