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4 5 CHAPTER El/,n/3ltectull Property ond tnternet Low What are trade secrets, and r.vhat larvs offer protection for this lorm ol tntellectual property? What steps har,e been taken to protect u-riellectual property rights in toclal s cligital age? @ Or.rtions and (ase Problems '*'1, Patent lnfringement. John and Anchew Dor-rey invented a harcl-bcarins dcl'ice lor balancing rotors. Althougl'i tl'rcy rcg- iste recl therr invention r'vrth the U.S. Patent and llademark Office. lt was never used as an automobile rvheel balancer. Some time 1ater. Exetron Corp. produced an automobile *'heel balancer that used a hard-bearing device rvith a sup- port Ilrrte srmilar to that of the DoneYs' cleYice. CliVe n thrt lhe Doncvs had not r-rsed the ir der.ice lor automobile rvheel balancing, does Exetrons use of a simllar der-ice rnfringe on the Doneys' patent? Why or u.hv not? *- flB Question with Sample Answer. Copyright ,H lnfringement. llt whi, lr,,1 thc loll.riin{:itrt,rti,,n: \oulcl rl colrrt Ilkely holcl N,lanrta liable fbr copy- right infnngementi Explain :. At the librarr: \laruta photocopres ten pages lrom a scholarlyjournal relating,o n lppic on ri-hich she rs rvrit- ing a term paper. \lanrta nukes leather handbags iind sells thent in hcr smrrll shrrp. She advertises her henclbags as "\utton hancl- bags. hoping that customers w.iLl mlstakenll- assume thal thel' s'ere made by Vuitton, the u'ell-knoun nraker of high-quality luggage and haliclbags I \'laruta teaches Latin Anrericrrn htst,-rn aL a small uni- versitv She has a digital r'ideo recorder and freqr-rently records teler-isirrn programs relating to Latin Amenca and puts rhem on DVDs. She then rakes the DVDs to her clirssroom so tl'rat he r stuclents can s,atch therrr. -For a sample answer to Question B-2, go to Appendi-x E at the end of this text. .:i .: Fair Use. Professor Littrell is reaching rr summer seminar in busl'ress torts aL State Universitr. Ser-era1 times during ihe course. he makes copies ol relevant se.tions lrom business las-terts ancl clistrrbutes them to his stndents. LrtLrell cloes not re rrlize tl'rat tl're claughter of rrne ol thc tcrtbook irLrthors rs a member of his seminar. She tells her lather abour Littrells copf ing acti\.lt1es, u'hich i-rave taken place rvirhoul her fathers or his publishers permissron. Her lather sues Littrell lor copl-right infringement. Lrttrell clain-Ls plorcr- tion unde r the lair use doctnne . Who n iil prevail? Erplrir-r. :i. Trademarks, In 1969, Jack Nlascluelier, a prolessor of pharmacologl,, cLscovered a chemrc:rl antioxidant made frorn the bark of a French pine tree. The substance sup- posedh- ilssists ln nutritionai distribution ;rnd blood circu- lirlrr)n. Hr]rphtrg Research, Ltcl., began ro scll the pt'ocluct uncler the nrlre P1'cnogenol, r.i,hich Horphag registered as a traciemark rn 1993. Pvcnogenol became one of the fif- teen best-selhng l-rerbal supplen-rents rn the Unrted States. ln I999. r1-rrough tl-re W.eb sire ri.ritrheaithierhfe.com, L:irn' Garcra began to sell lr4ascp-rt-lit-rs Onginal ClPCs, a rrsl supplenient denvecl lrom grtrpe pits. Clainting Lhat this prt'rcluct \'es thc 'Lruc Pycnogcnol," Clarcia usecl thc mark as a meta tag and a generic term, attributrng the results ol research on Horphag's procluct to Masquelier's and altering quotatrcns from scientific literature to substrtute the name o[ \lasqueliers product for Horphags Customels rvhcr pr-rrch:rscci Clarciirs procluct contactccl Horphau rbrrut rt, onli to lcarn Lhat the,v hacl not bonght Horphags product. Otl'rers cailed Horpl-rag to ask r'vhether Garcia "rvas selling . real Pr-cnogenol " Horphag filed a suit in a federal district court against Garcia, alleglng, among other things, that he lr'as diluting Horphags nrark. Wl-rat is trrrclcnrarl< clilution? Drcl rt occur here? Explain. lHtrr|hrru Reseurch. Llcl. v Gttrciu. +7i E3d 1029 (9th Cir. 2007)l :-* --.a Case Problem with Sample Answer. Copyright. .EI, Rc.luirr \ilihLombe ir.r ntLtsi.ian rnJ nrrtrtc pro clucer. In 2002, Wikrhcombe nret Jonrtl'ran Smith, lltown rrs Lil Jon, a nrcmlrcr ol Lil jon & Thc Errst Srdc Bol,z (LJESBI Lil Jon and LJESB are under contract to grve Tee\Iee Toons. lnc. tT\,T), all rights to LJESBb recordings and LilJons songs. At LilJons reqllest, based on his idea, and with his sug- gestrons. \'ilcircornbe cornposecl, perlonned, ancl recorclecl a sons titlecl Thrr bcchnan" fbr LJESBIs album Kings of a:Lu'th. Thei dicl not discr"rss payment and Wilchcon'rbe u,as not pard, but he sas grr-en credit on the albllm:rs a prodr:cer. By 2005, the album had sold 2 mlllion copres. \Vilchcornbe flled a suit against T\T and t1-re others, alleging copyight infnnger-nent. Tl-rc cle [t'nclltnts rsse rtecl that tl-re1, h;rcl r liccnsc to Llse thc sol1g. \'ilcheonrbe ar.grecl thrrt lre hacl never grantecl a license to irnr,- (rne. Do these lacts indrcate that the defendants had a license to r-rse \llchcombeb song? if so, ri,hat does that mean for \'ilchcombe -s cause? Explaln. [W'ilchcombr r Tee\,t'c loons, Inc., 555 rld 9+9 (I lth Crr. 2009)l To vierv a sample answer for Case Problem 8-5, go to Appendlx F at the end of this text. :*+. Ilade Secret. Pegg, Hamilton u.as a major shareholder in Carbon Processing and Reclamation, LLC (CPR) Afier a clispute. she sold her jnterest in the companl ancl srgnccl a conficlentialiq' irgleelrent not to clivulgc contl)an) ltusit.rcss to en)'one. A vear later, when William Jones, thc ouner o[ CPR, lelt on a trip. he 1er an emp1o1ee. Jesse Eds.ards, drir,e his companl- car. There r,r,ere boxes containlng some detarled cornpanv records in the car. Eclu,arcls and 1'ris u'ile , Channon, rvert- in the middle ol a chrtrrce , ancl she suspectccl hinr ol i-ricling [inancial irrlcrrr-nation h'om her. When Channon saw the boxes in tl're car her husband rvas dnring, she got a car ke1- from Hamilton, u,ho still had one lrom u-hen she r.r,as an o\11er. Channon used the key to get into the ]roxes of compirn)' inlomratron. Jones then sr-recl Hamiltor-r lbr breacl'r