Texaco

Ted Labuza writes:
>
> As I understand it, the plaintiffs don't claim any right in
> Texaco's inventions based on the articles. All they claim is
> that Texaco made copies of their journals for "commercial
> purposes" without permission.

>Thanks, I now have that that decision. Earlier this year there was talk
>of tying it to a patent but I guess that was dropped.

Ted,

There has never been any discussion such as the one to which you allude. Virtually all of the data in your original premise is incorrect. This suit never dealt with products, or development of products, or money from products; and the publishes did not recieve "(several $MM)" as you have stated. There is no patent component of this suit. This is entirely a copyright matter. As explained by someone else;

> As I understand it, the plaintiffs don't claim any right in
> Texaco's inventions based on the articles. All they claim is
> that Texaco made copies of their journals for "commercial
> purposes" without permission.

That's all there is.
Hope this helps to clarify.

Bob Weiner
Vice President
Copyright Clearance Center Received on Tue Nov 15 1994 - 21:01:05 GMT