SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: Navigation Patent (was RE: SIGIA-L:
RE: Navigation Patent (was RE: SIGIA-L: (no subject))
From: Gunnar Swanson (gunnar_at_pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 17 2000 - 11:45:01 EDT
>A couple of small things: Classification schemes are copyright, but the
>application of that copyright is moot. If a company decided to use Universal
>Decimal Classification (UDC) in their operations (most particularly in a way
>that contributed to a product) they would incur copyright charges payable to
There is a company that has been publishing US case law books for many
years, numbering the cases. Like many specialized and expensive-to-publish
reference books, there was little-to-no competition. As a result, many
courts will accept case citations only if identified with their numbers.
Now the courts have discovered that a commercial enterprise owns the
organization of their information and nobody but that company can put
together a case law database that anyone could actually use.
Gunnar
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