Maria Pallante out of Copyright. Unified IP?
Maria Pallante: out of Copyright Office
Great article by Dennis Crouch over at Patently-O. (But then aren’t they all great over there.)
Apparently Pallante is out as Chief of the Copyright office. And the clamor is up as to why we don’t have a unified IP at the patent and trademark office, kind of a US PTOC. (I guess that would be pronounced Pea-Talk, or PeeTalk, if you wanted to talk dirty.)
Back in 2012, Crouch recommended creating an integrated US Intellectual Property Organization, or USIPO (you sip oh) akin to WIPO for the world of IP.
The argument for an integrated IP approach “… is that many operating businesses relying upon intellectual property (IP) rights typically do not focus on a single form of IP rights but instead take a layered approach that includes some combination of patent, trademark, copyright, contractual, employment, trade secret, and design rights, for instance.”
With all the changes happening, or potentially happening, in the IP world this integration seems like a great idea when the time has come.
Let’s go with USIPO, not PTOC, on this one.
