Klarinet Archive - Posting 000014.txt from 1998/04

From: Roger Garrett <rgarrett@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: urgent plea
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 09:24:25 -0500

On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Neil Leupold wrote:

> I manage operations for the intellectual property division of
> a microelectronics engineering firm. Simply stated, my life
> is consumed by the investigation of patent infringement. Copy-
> right laws are similar to patents on the right to use, and I'll
> second everything Kevin has to say below.

Copyright laws are similar to patent infringement laws, but dissimilar in
enough ways to warrant careful scrutiny of the differences. I would be
very careful asserting law in one as law in the other by way of a
similarity. The language is different enough that, as such, copright law
is a different breed altogether.

Roger Garrett
IWU