§510.517 Certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property.
(a) All of the following transactions in connection with a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection in the United States or North Korea are authorized, including exportation of services to North Korea, payment for such services, and payment to persons in North Korea directly connected to such intellectual property protection:
(1) The filing and prosecution of any application to obtain a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection;
(2) The receipt of a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection;
(3) The renewal or maintenance of a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection; and
(4) The filing and prosecution of any opposition or infringement proceeding with respect to a patent, trademark, copyright, or other form of intellectual property protection, or the entrance...
1) With certain exceptions noted, the ITSR, SySR, NKSR and Venezuela GLs for certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property are substantively identical, and are presumably interpreted accordingly.
2) This provision (or its analogues) has been subject to some notable interpretation. In Kalantari v. NITV, Inc., 352 F.3d 1202 (9th Cir. 2003),the 9th Circuit held that, with respect to a film duly imported from Iran pursuant to the informational materials exemption, the subsequent assignment of the copyright of the film is a transaction "ordinarily incident" to the initial copyrighting of a film authorized by 560.509. The SySR version...