BILL NUMBER: AB 2569	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Davis

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act relating to intellectual property.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2569, as introduced, Davis. Intellectual property: ownership
rights.
   Existing law provides that the author of any original work of
authorship that is not fixed in any tangible medium of expression has
an exclusive ownership in the representation or expression of that
work as against all persons except one who originally and
independently creates the same or similar work. Existing law also
provides that the inventor or proprietor of any invention or design,
with or without delineation, or other graphical representation, has
an exclusive ownership in the invention or design, and in the
representation or expression thereof, which continues so long as the
invention or design and those representations or expressions remain
in his or her possession.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would clarify the actionable use of ideas under
intellectual property law to include novelty.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would clarify the actionable use of ideas under
intellectual property laws, in response to the holding in Grosso v.
Miramax Film Corp. (9th Cir. 2004) 383 F.3d 965, to include novelty.