PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS OF USEFUL ARTICLES HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 1179 PROTECTION OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS OF USEFUL ARTICLES JUNE 23, 1988 89-733 Serial No. 108 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1989 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office Cara JN COS, CVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE WET W KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin, Chairman The Honorable Robert H. Michel, Republican Leader, U.S. House of Repre sentatives... Prepared statement Bruce A Lehman, Esq., Swidler & Berlin, Washington, DC.; Counsel, Industrial Design Coalition..... Prepared statement with attachments.. Accompanied by Kenneth D. Enborg, Chief Trademark and Copyright Counsel, General Motors Legal Staff, on behalf of the Motor Vehicle Prepared statement. ham T. Fryer III Professor, School of Law, University of Baltimore. 110 Prepared statement with attachments.. 115 Supplemental statement 143 Ralph S. Brown Professor, School of Law, Yale University 110 Prepared statement. 153 August P. Alegi Esq. Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, GEICO, on behalf of the National Association of Independent Insurers 177 Prepared statement 179 ADDITIONAL MATERIALS Fryer. WT. III "Industrial Design Protection in the United States of Amer- Letter from Dick Warden, Legislative Director, UAW, to the Honorable 122 187 189 190 191 294 ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS Statement of Ralph Oman Register of Copyrights. Copyright Office, Library of Congress June 21. 1985 Statement of James F. Fitzpatrick, Esq. Aroid & Porter. Washington, DC, Counse. State Farm Mundial Automobile Insurance Companies, with attachmem June 23. 1986 196 Statement of the US Chamber of Commerce June 22 198 228 Press Release from the National Marine Manufacturers Association. Wabington DC. June 22 1985 Fres helease from Caterpillar. Peoria, IL. June 22 1985. 227 Benjamin Y. Cooper, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs Page 486 Las H. Hanna, President and Chief Executive Officer, Motor #facturers Association of the United States, Inc., Washington, the Honorable Robert W. Kastenmeier, with attachments, August 4, from R.G. Micka, Vice President, Administration, LA-Z-BOY Chair mpany, Monroe, MI, to the Honorable Robert W. Kastenmeier, June 16, 1988. 488 566 Letter from Robert Stannard, American Society of Furniture Designers, High 568 APPENDIX VII.-PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED MATERIALS Lehrer, Linda, "Designers Want More Protection From Imitators," 35 The Comment, "Designer Law: Fashioning a Remedy for Design Piracy," Vol. 569 570 583 628 |