From cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Fri Mar 6 19:16:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: from sun28.aic.nrl.navy.mil by mc.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.1/mc) with SMTP id TAA29248; Fri, 6 Mar 1998 19:15:59 -0500 (EST) Precedence: bulk Errors-To: cube-lovers-errors@mc.lcs.mit.edu Mail-from: From cube-lovers-request@life.ai.mit.edu Wed Mar 4 16:17:05 1998 To: cube-lovers@ai.mit.edu From: whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu (Wei-Hwa Huang) Subject: Re: Taiwanese Invention of the Cube? Date: 4 Mar 1998 21:16:09 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Message-Id: <6dkgap$rsv@gap.cco.caltech.edu> References: Norman Diamond 26-Feb-1998 0830 writes: >As for patenting, somehow the mixture of "patent" and "Taiwan" in the >same sentence strikes me as an oxymoron. >Somehow the mixture of "trademark" and "Taiwan" strikes me as an >oxymoron too, even though they're not in the same sentence. >Want to try "copyright" next? :-) Is it possible to copyright the Cube? That's why I didn't try it. In any case, stop sneering -- Taiwan has local copyright, trademark, and patent laws, and has had them for decades. Sure, they haven't honored international copyright laws, but then again, most other countries don't think Taiwan exists as an independent country. When it became economically viable to honor international copyright, they did so -- such legislation was passed in 1994. Perhaps you are getting a biased view from living in Japan? -- Wei-Hwa Huang, whuang@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you heard the one about the guy Jean who visited Japan?