Unless the shape of an automobile, airplane, ladies' dress, food processor, television set, or any other industrial product contains some element that, physically or conceptually, can be identified as separable from the utilitarian aspects of that article,... Protection of Industrial Designs of Useful Articles: Hearing Before the ... - Page 273by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice - 1989 - 647 pagesFull view - About this book
| Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition - Business & Economics - 1997 - 594 pages
...language, requires that in order to be copy righ table, the design of a useful article contain "some element that, physically or conceptually, can be identified as separable from the utilitarian aspects ofthat article."248 These provisions, however, must in 243 See supra note 52. 244Brown, Overview, supra... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Copyright - 1988 - 68 pages
...protect the shape. This test of separability and independence from the utilitarian aspects of the useful article does not depend upon the nature of the design — that is, even if the appearance of the useful article is determined by aesthetic, as opposed to functional considerations, only those... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Administration of Justice - Copyright - 1990 - 244 pages
...airplane, ladies' dress, food processor, television set, or any other industrial product contains some element that, physically or conceptually, can be identified...that article, the design would not be copyrighted ... . *17 USC $101. 'ibid. *HR Rep. No. 1476, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. 55 (1976) (hereafter House Report)... | |
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