Selecting an attorney for legal cases is a very important decision. Please enter your information below to receive a Free Consultation from an attorney in your area:
Intellectual Property News
Intellectual Property Rights
2006 Progress Report Announces Implementation of Task Force’s Previous Recommendations
WASHINGTON—Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales highlighted the results of the Progress Report of the Department of Justice’s Intellectual Property Task Force at the United States Chamber of Commerce’s Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy program today. He specifically announced that the Task Force has fully implemented all 31 recommendations contained in its 2004 report, and in some cases, went well beyond those recommendations.
Among the highlights of the 2006 Progress Report, the Attorney General noted that the Task Force increased the number of prosecutors in the field by not only creating the five additional Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) Units recommended in the 2004 report, but also by going well beyond that recommendation and creating an additional seven CHIP Units, thereby nearly doubling the number of CHIP Units (from 13 to 25) in less than two years. The seven cities most recently announced in this expansion are Austin, Texas; Baltimore; Denver; Detroit; Newark, N. J.; New Haven, Conn.; and Philadelphia.. The five additional Units created since 2004 are in the District of Columbia; Nashville, Tenn.; Orlando; Pittsburgh; and Sacramento.
The Progress Report also emphasizes that the Department of Justice has deployed an experienced federal prosecutor as an Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator (IPLEC) to Southeast Asia and secured funding for an IPLEC in Eastern Europe to handle regional efforts to enforce and protect intellectual property rights. Among other duties, the IPLEC will assist in providing training and technical assistance to foreign prosecutors, investigators, and judges regarding intellectual property investigations and prosecutions. Read more at usdoj.gov
Gatt sets a standard of norms to follow.
All GATT member-countries calls for rewriting their national laws to conform to internationally agreed standards for protecting patents, copyrights, trademarks, industrial designs, and trade secrets.
Newsroom
News about Intellectual Property cases in Kansas and nationwide:
Definition:
Allows a trademark owner to seek registration in any of the countries that have joined the Madrid Protocol by filing a single application.
Derivative Work
Definition:
Refers to a work that is based on, or modifies, one or more preexisting works. A copyright owner has the exclusive right to prepare or authorize the preparation of a derivative work based on the copyrighted work. If a derivative work, considered as a whole, represents an original work of authorship, it may be separately copyrightable.
Secrecy
Definition:
The subject matter of a trade secret must be secret. Matters of public knowledge or of general knowledge in an industry cannot be appropriated by one as his secret. Matters which are completely disclosed by the goods which one markets cannot be his secret. Substantially, a trade secret is known only in the particular business in which it is used. It is not requisite that only the proprietor of the business know it.
Legal Disclaimers
All attorney listings are a paid attorney advertisement, and do not in any way constitute a referral or endorsement by an approved or authorized lawyer referral service. The information provided on Kansas Intellectual Property Lawyers.com is not intended to be legal advice, but merely conveys
general information related to legal issues commonly encountered. Your access
to and use of this website is subject to additional Terms
and Conditions.
Local Professional? Generate new business today
Call 866-227-9356 or contact a sales rep
Did You Know?