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§542.520 Certain transactions related to patents, trademarks, copyrights, and other intellectual property authorized.
(a) All of the following transactions in connection with patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property protection in the United States or Syria are authorized, including exportation of services to Syria, payment for such services, and payment to persons in Syria 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;
(4) The filing and prosecution of opposition or infringement proceedings with respect to a patent, trademark, copyright or other form of intellectual property protection, or the entrance of a defense to any such proceedings;...
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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...