Re: origins of "IP"

Patrice Lyons wrote:
>
> Back twenty years or so when I was first starting out as a
> copyright attorney, I recall copyright referred to as intellectual
> property and patent as industrial property. The term "industrial"
> property appears to have disappeared about the same time that the
> role of patents in computer technology emerged. The renaming of
> BIRPI in Geneva to WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
> back in 1974 did a lot to encourage the use of the umbrella term
> intellectual property to refer to copyright, patent and trademark
> laws.

Maybe it was an aberration, but the 1873 Supreme Court case I referred to in an earlier message, in which the term intellectual property was used, was a patent case.

John R. Allison
University of Texas at Austin
allisonj[_at_]mail.utexas.edu Received on Mon Oct 28 1996 - 14:04:05 GMT