[Tfug] [johns at fsf.org: Help research law school courses and, "intellectual property"]

[Felix Tilley]

IANAL.  I am a radar guy.

If you are near the UA, you should go to the book store and find the 
Nutshell series from West Publishing.  In particular, "Intellectual 
Property in a Nutshell."

In the US, the term "Intellectual Property" has been around a very long 
time.  When I was working for Hughes Aircraft/Raytheon, they offered  
courses on IP several times a year.

Intellectual Property is a course for first semester law students.

In the US, there are four kinds of intellectual property:

1.  Patents

2.  Trademarks

3.  Copyrights

4.  Trade secrets


Although patents and copyrights are mentioned in the same clause in the 
US Constitution, the laws on patents and copyrights are entirely 
different and unrelated.  Lawyers who handle copyright cases may decline 
patent cases, and vice versa.

Somehow, I don't think I answered the question.

Felix in Tucson



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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:24 -0700
> From: rubinson at u.arizona.edu (Claude Rubinson)
> Subject: [Tfug] [johns at fsf.org: Help research law school courses and
> 	"intellectual property"]
> To: TFUG <tfug at tfug.org>
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> Regarding the below message from the FSF:
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> The online archives of the course catalog go back to 1993, in which we
> already have course on "Intellectual Property."  I've already sent
> this info to rms.  I'm pretty busy and am hoping that somebody else
> might want to go to the Main or Law library find out just when we
> started offering courses on IP.  If you do so, please let the list
> know so that we don't duplicate our efforts.
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> Claude
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> ----- Forwarded message from John Sullivan <johns at fsf.org> -----
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> From: John Sullivan <johns at fsf.org>
> Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 16:44:13 -0400
> Subject: Help research law school courses and "intellectual property"
> To: info-member at fsf.org
> Cc: 
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> If you are at a university which has a law school, please go to the university
> archives, and check the old course catalogs to see when classes in the law
> school began using the propaganda term "intellectual property" (see
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html) in the names of courses. Please
> send the date, school, course title and description to rms at gnu.org.
>