the is ཅ། and the & drink COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR IMPRINTED DESIGN... PATTERNS ON SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H.R. 1007 COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR IMPRINTED DESIGN PATTERNS 47-588 O APRIL 16, 1979 Serial No. 16 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1979 be139/11 3079 16/079 KF27 CONTENTS General Instrument Corp., Quincy Rogers, Director of Governmental Affairs... Mineta, Hon. Norman Y., a Representative in Congress from the State of New York County Lawyers' Association, Richard A. Givens, chairman Texas Instruments, Inc., George H. Heilmeier, vice president, corporate COPYRIGHT PROTECTION FOR IMPRINTED DESIGN PATTERNS ON SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1979 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, San Jose, Calif. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2 p.m., in Judge Kelly's courtroom, Santa Clara County Superior Court, 161 N. First Street, San Jose, Calif., the Honorable Robert Kastenmeier (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present. Representatives Kastenmeier, Edwards and Mineta. Also present. Bruce A. Lehman, counsel; Thomas E. Mooney, associate counsel; and Audrey Marcus, clerk. Mr. KASTENMEIER. The subcommittee will come to order. We are gathered here today for the first hearing on the subject of extension of the Copyright Act for the protection of certain printed design patterns on the semiconductor chips. In this connection I have a brief statement I would like to make, but first of all, before I say any more, I would like to yield to my colleague on the Judiciary Committee, who is part of this panel today, and indeed our host in this area, and my dear friend, and a person who himself has_the_principal bill on the subject before Congress, the Honorable Don Edwards. Mr. EDWARDS. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I'm simply delighted this subcommittee has chosen to come to Santa Clara Valley, especially to San Jose, for this important hearing, which I believe very well might be the first official congressional hearing in the history of the city of San Jose. I can't remember an other; if there is anybody here who will say I am wrong, let him now speak. But, it's really very exciting to have this matter here representing the House Judiciary Committee, and it's especially good for me to have my friend and colleague, Congressman Bob Kastenmeier, chairing this particular hearing. He is chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Čivil Liberties and the Administration of Justice. Bob has been a member of the House of Representatives from Wisconsin for 20 years, and he is the acknowledged expert in Congress on the very sophisticated and complicated matter of copyrights. The copyright laws, until 1976, had not been revised in a major way since 1909, and Congressman Kastenmeier as a member of the Presidential Commission and as the chairman of this subcommittee, and I as a member of the subcommittee for a number of years, were privileged to be a part of the process. Congressman Kastenmeier's subcommittee completely revised the copyright laws of the (1) |