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12 IPL Newsl. 1 (1993-1994)

handle is hein.journals/iprolane12 and id is 1 raw text is: A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SECTION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1 FALL 1993 ,.A 0_... FIRST SPE IA ,,NJP IIFE lO -U~:2-0 99 H O ETA BY DOUG~vLAS W. WYATT Welcome to the first issue of the American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law Newsletter This promises to be an exciting year for the Section-it has a new name, a new look, and new chal- lenges to meet. The New York Annual Meeting held in August 1993 was historic in many ways. It signaled the end of the name of our Section as the ABA Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law. Our Business Sessions resulted in the Section taking positions on more substan- tive resolutions than it had ever before taken. Those Business Sessions, thanks to the masterful leadership of Jack Goldstein, were conducted expeditiously and profes- sionally and were some of the most educational sessions that I have ever attended. Some of our members have insisted for years that those Sessions should qualify for CLE credit and we will take the steps necessary to insure that Business Sessions at future Annual Meetings are CLE accredited. Besides being highly educational, those Business Sessions resulted in the Section taking positions on more than 186 issues currently facing the intellectual property bar. The Report of the Special Committee on Harmonization, originally planned to be considered at a special meeting in April 1993, which later was cancelled, contributed to a large part of the August agenda. A full listing of all of the resolutions considered in August is printed elsewhere in this Newsletter. When our 1992-93 Annual Report becomes available later this year, members will be able to read the summaries of the debates which took place concerning these resolutions. I am certain that those who were not present in August will find these debates informative. The 1993 Annual Meeting was historic in perhaps another way. It may well have been the last Annual Meeting using the format we have grown accustomed to. The Section has been considering for some time the possi- bility of shifting its resources to a stand-alone annual meeting at a time and place separate from the ABA Annual Meeting. There are a number of reasons for doing so, but the most compelling are economic reasons. The net loss to the Section for its participation in the Annual Meeting has been between $60,000 and $100,00 for the past several years. The major portion of the registration (continued on page 59) I e COPYRIGHT 1993 AMER IN BAR A SOIATf IO .o P.. UCE , o13Y TH ABA PRESS

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