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4 PTC Newsl. 1 (1984-1985)

handle is hein.journals/iprolane4 and id is 1 raw text is: N ewsLOTT8eR Published by the Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law of the American Bar Association Volume 4, Number I cHaiRman's LeTTeR It is a personal honor to be able to address you on the pages of our Section's Newsletter. I will@ endeavor to use this letter to keep you informed about what our . . Section is doing throughout the year. Per our tradition, much of this a issue is devoted to the recent ac- tions we took on the important resolutions presented in Chi- cago. Our Section is one of the last ABA sections preserving each member's right to par- ticipate in setting section policy. Our bylaws allow any member present at the business session to be heard on any resolution or matter presented. As illustrated by the recent debate on proposed Resolution 306 1 dealing with a royalty on the sale of blank tape and recording equipment, our business sessions are meaningful from a policy standpoint as well as being educational and interesting. If you have not at- tended our business sessions in the past, consider attending next year and become part of this rich tradition. The American Bar Association's 107th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., and London, England, will be held in the month of July rather than in August. This meeting will be the fourth time in the history of the ABA that a transatlantic program will be offered. During the Washington portion (July 8- 10, 1985), our Section head- quarters will be at the Mayflower Hotel. In addition to the social events, there are three scheduled business'sessions and two educational programs planned. The London por- tion (July 15-19, 1985) will see our Section headquartered at the Inn on the Park. Our Section will be responsible for one of the ABA's official programs entitled Piracy and the New Technologies. In addition, there will be social events and two Section-sponsored programs. By now, I hope, many of you have already returned your registration forms for either or both portions of this exciting meeting. If you have not completed your registration, please con- sider doing it as soon as possible. Your accommodations will be granted in the order that registrations are received, and London hotel space is limited. At the last Annual Meeting, the ABA membership voted on and passed an amendment to the ABA Constitution by which the membership of the Board of Governors and the Nominating Committee are to be increased. Six new sec- tion members-at-large will be added to the Board of Gover- nors for the 1985-86 ABA year. These six new positions will be randomly filled from among the twenty-one sec- tions. In addition, the Nominating Committee will be ex- panded to include seven representatives of sections, effec- tive immediately (see page 2). Drawings were held at the Section Officers Conference, September 20, 1984, to determine which sections will desig- nate representatives to fill these openings at this time and the order of succession of sections for future designations. The first drawing, held by the Conference of Section Chairmen, was to select seven (7) section delegates to form part of the new Nominating Committee of the House of Delegates and to establish their initial terms of office. I am pleased to report that our Section has become one of the seven sections sending its delegate to the Nominating Com- mittee. Mr. William E. Schuyler, Jr., will immediately be-- come a member of the Nominating Committee for a three- year term. The second drawing was held to select six (6) section members-at-large with staggered one-, two-, and three- year terms for membership on the expanded Board of Gov- ernors. While we did not draw one of the first six seats, we managed to draw one of the two seats becoming vacant in August 1986 when the two one-year section members-at- large end their term. To be eligible for election to the Board of Governors as a section member-at-large, the candidate must be or have been a Section Delegate in the House of Delegates. William E. Schuyler, Jr., has for seventeen years served as our Sec- tion Delegate in the House of Delegates and has been re- elected to serve for the next three years. Accordingly, in Copyright 1984 American Bar Association Produ<ed by the ABA Press

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