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From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - By-elections in April
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:01:12 GMT


Source   : The CGI
Date     : Jan 21, 1993
Country  : India

* Election Commission Revises Decision, Schedules By-polls for April
* Presidency college turns 175

                             * * * * * * *

* Election Commission Revises Decision, Schedules By-polls for April

New Delhi - April 21: The election commission has revised its earlier 
decision and decided to hold by-elections in three parliamentary and 14 
assembly seats in different parts of the country in the first week of 
April.
	The commission has, on the request of the cabinet secretary,
issued orders for holding these by-elections in the constituencies not
affected by any court proceedings.
	The commission also passed orders for intensive revision of
Andhra Pradedesh barring Karwan and Chandrayangutta (both in the state
capital Hyderabad) assembly constituencies by 24th of next month.
	In its earlier decision on Jan 11, the commission decided to
restrict the Feb 15 polls to general elections to the state assemblies
of north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Nagaland and Tripura.
	The decision based on the specific request of the cabinet
secretary for the postponement in the light of the delicate situation
in the country following post-mosque demolition developments.
	While by-elections will be held for Parliamentary seats in
Ottapalam -Kerala, Jalandhar in Punjab and Palani in Tamilnadu, the 
14 assembly constituencies to go to polls are : Rayachoti and Panyam
(Andhra Pradesh), Goh (Bihar), Rapar, Gadhada, Kundla, Jhalod and Jambusar
(Gujrat), Narwana (Haryana), Guhagarm Chinchpokli, Parel, Kinwat and
north Solapur in Maharashtra.

* Presidency college turns 175

Calcutta, Jan 20 - West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, arch rival 
S.S.Ray, Ashok Mitra, Amlan Dutta, Sukanta Chawdhary, Amartya Sen, 
Veteran journalists R.P.Goenka, Pritish Nandy, --- all spent their youth 
in the corridors of the Presidency college here.
	They all get together again at their alma mater on Wednesday
when the college celebrates its 175th anniversary to muse over the
cataclysmic role it played in the socio-political history of Bengal.
	The nostalgia to dwell on the legends, traditions and
memorabilia associated with the college whose history is entwined with
movements like the Bengal renaissance and the Naxalite uprising, must
engross them.
	The Hindu college, set up in 1817 to tutor 'sons of
respectable Hindus in the English and Indian languages and in the
literature and science of Europe and Asia' was its predecessor. The
Hindu college was rechristened Presidency College in 1855.
	An architectural splendour with its improvised doric columns,
neo-greek arches, fluted pillars and antiquated cast-iron gate, the
main building of the college is truly built in the colonial style,
complete with a turret clock, repaired at a huge cost for the
anniversary bash.

                               ( E N D )


Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: gnreddy@dpg1.attmail.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: India - Guidelines for Private Sector Banks Announced
Organization: AT&T
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 22:49:25 GMT


Source   : The CGI
Date     : Jan  22, 1993
Country  : India

                                 * * * * *

* RBI announced new guidelines for entry of new private sector banks

Bombay - The Reserve Bank of India on Friday unveiled a detailed 16-point
guidelines on entry of new private sector banks in the country
stipulating among other things that they would have to observe
priority sector lending targets as applicable to other domestic
banks.
	Such a bank shall be registered as a public limited company under
the companies act, 1956, and be governed by the provisions of the
reserve bank of India act, 1934, the banking regulations act, 1949 and
other relevant statutes, in regard to its management set-up, liquidity
requirements and the scope of its activities, the RBI said.
	In issuing the guidelines, the RBI said while recognising the
importance and the role of public sector banks, which have now 91 per
cent of the total bank branches and handled 86 per cent of the total
banking business, there was an increasing recognition of the need to
introduce greater competition which could lead to higher productivity
and efficiency of the banking system.
	The RBI said in a press release it was necessary that while
permitting the entry of new private sector banks the following
considerations have to be kept in view.
	
	(a). They sub-serve the underlying goals of financial sector
         reforms which are to provide competitive, efficient and low cost
         financial intermediation services for the society at large.

	(b). They are financially viable.

	(c). They should result in upgradation of technology in the banking
         sector.

	(c). They avoid the shortcomings such as unfair preemption and
         concentration of credit, monopolisation of economic power, cross
         holdings with industrial groups, etc, which beset the private sector
         banks prior to nationalisation.

	(e). Freedom of entry in the banking sector may have to be managed
         carefully and judiciously.

	Based on these considerations, the RBI has formulated the
guidelines for establishment of new banks in the private sector.

                             ( E N D )

Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: gnreddy@cbnewsf.att.com (G.Narotham Reddy)
Subject: Card Payphones introduced in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Organization: AT&T
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 19:29:06 GMT


Source  : World Telecom Daily, 12/14/92
Country : Pakistan and Sri Lanka

                           * * * * * 

* Card Payphones introduced in Pakistan and Sri Lanka

In separate deals, the two Asian nations of Pakistan and Sri Lanka are
introducing their residents to the convenience of card payphones.
	In Pakistan, Landis & Gyr communications won an order to
install 20,000 BTK15 cardphones by the year 2000 for Pakistan's
Telecom Foundation. These are the first payphones ever in the country.
The installations began at the end of last year. Besides installing
the phones, Landis & Gyr will transfer support technology to Pakistan,
and set up a facility for in-country assembly of the phones.
	For this project, the Foundation chose optical card technology
because it it fraud-proof, and less expensive than chip cards. These
prepaid optical cards offer many residents their first opportunity to
make calls abroad. Today, many Pakistanis must share phone lines, but
within the next two years, as the payphone installations accelerate,
Pakistan is expected to increase its 1.3 million existing phone lines
to 2 million.

* Direct dial telephone service between Pakistan and Cambodia

Pakistan and Cambodia have started international direct dialing
service. The country code for Cambodia is 855, area code 23. Per
minute charges are fixed at 54 rupees. The direct dialing link will
aid the relatives and families of the Pakistan troops stationed in
Cambodia under the auspices of UN military observers. [Xinhua, 12/23/92 ]

In Sri Lanka, GPT Payphone Systems won a US $560,000 contract to
supply Lanka Payphones Limited with GPT5073 prepay cardphones. The
phones are part of a new public telephone service within the recently
privatized Sri Lankan telecom market. The phones will be linked to
GPT mote tariff updates, data changes and health status reports, GPT
will help Lanka Payphones manage the system, and reduce operating
costs. GPT's order also includes a large supply of phone cards of
various denominations.

                               ( E N D )


Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: Yogesh.Patel@Corp.Sun.COM (Yogesh Patel)
Subject: FLASH -Indian Airlines Plane Highjacked
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 18:26:51 GMT


Source: CNN
Dates: 1/22/92
Country: India

An Indian Airlines plane with 68 passsengers on board has been 
hijacked. It was forced to land at Lucknow  airport, the 
hijackers were reportedly demanding to talk to  one of the political
parties.

                              ( E N D )
Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: reddym@Barra.COM (Reddy Mallidi)
Subject: Bangladesh Parliament Condemns India Over Mosque Destruction
Organization: BARRA, CA
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 13:34:42 GMT


     Source : XINHUA, DPA
     Dates  : Jan 20, 1993
     Country: Bangladesh

                                * * * *

    * Bangladesh worries about its trade deficit with India

    In the formal bilateral trade with India, Bangladesh has incurred a 
    cumulative deficit of around $2b during the last seven years from
    1984-85 to 1991-92. Bangladesh has emerged as the third largest
    trading partner of India in the SAARC during this period, India's 
    exports to Bangladesh rose seven times while Bangladesh's export to 
    India declined by 65%. In 1991-92, the total volume of the two-way
    trade between the two countries came to $238.78m and the imbalance
    stood at $223.46m in favor of India. The trade deficit on a cumulative
    basis, is estimated to be closer to $5-6b against Bangladesh. There
    is another important dimension to Indo-Bangla trade, and that relates
    to the service sector, the largest number of foreign tourists in India
    come from Bangladesh, a large number of them go there for medical 
    treatment and pilgrimage, besides, over 40,000 Bangladeshi students
    are studying there. Foreign exchange transactions, through both formal  
    and informal channels, involve a large chunk of money for payments
    for such services, the combined market of goods and services for India
    in Bangladesh is sized at about $1b per annum. (XIN)

    * Bangladesh parliament condemns India over mosque destruction

    Dhaka 01/20 : The Bangladesh parliament Wednesday condemned India
    for the destruction of an ancient mosque by Hindu zealots and demands
    its reconstruction on the original site in Ayodhya. "We condemn the
    action by the Hindu fanatics in the strongest language," deputy
    speaker Majidul Huq said at the end of a three-day debate on the
    razing of the Babris mosque on Dec 6. Other government ministers 
    criticised the "wanton killings of Muslims in India", a reference to    
    the numerous dead in ethnic violence touched off by the mosque incident.
    Huq denied parliament was meddling in the internal affairs of India,
    saying the mosque incident and the communal violence against Muslims
    were violations of human rights. Earlier, opposition leader Sheikh
    Hasina accused the government of falling to protect minority Hindus who
    had fallen victims to the vengence of radical Muslims in Bangladesh.
    Opposition deputies claimed that 3,500 temples had been destroyed and 
    more than 40,00 Hindu homes damaged in a Muslim backlash in which 15
    people had been killed. (DPA)

                              ( E N D )
Newsgroups: misc.news.southasia
From: dea@rpi.edu (Anirban De)
Subject: Indian Airlines Pilots Call Off Strike
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:10:47 GMT


Source	: All India Radio
Time	: 1:00pm EST (18:00 GMT), January 24, 1993
Country	: India

* Indian Airlines pilots call off their strike
* Britain announces economic co-operation with India
* Four Sikh militants arrested in Delhi for allegedly planning to
  disrupt Republic Day celebrations

                          * * * * 

Pilots of Indian Airlines have called off their one and half month old 
strike. The decision was made by their union following discussions with 
the minister for Civil Aviation Mr.Ghulam Nabi Azad. The pilots had
demanded rise in their pay structure and better working conditions. 
The minister assured them that the government will consider their demands.


Britain has announced various co-operative programs with India. This 
has come during the British Prime Minister Mr.John Major's on going 
visit to India. Among the ventures announced in London by the British 
Overseas Development minister, was a 21.4 million pound hydro-electric 
power project in Orissa.

The Delhi police have arrested 4 Sikh militants who reported to 
have been planning terrorist activities for the Republic Day 
celebrations. Some arms, ammunitions and documents have also been 
recovered from them. 

Source: BBC World Service
Time: 10am & 11am (EST), January 24,1993
Country: India


* Delhi Police arrested four terrorists
* PM John Major in India

                        * * * * * 

The police in Delhi have arrested four Sikh terrorists who were planning to 
disrupt the Republic Day parade. The militants were reportedly in possession 
of bombs capable of blowing up buildings. They had four of these with 
corresponding remote-controlled devices and planned to simultaneously blow 
up government buildings on the Republic Day.

Security has also been tightened in Indian controlled Kashmir where Muslim 
separatists have called for a day of protest.

The British Prime Minisiter Mr.John Major's current visit to India is 
viewed as step to enhance business relations with India. The Prime Minister 
is accompanied by British business leaders who consider it important to be 
a part of change in India's economic situation. Prime Minister Major thinks 
that an improvement in British exports to India will help in improving his 
country's current economic health. He spent the Sunday at the residence
of the British High Commissioner in New Delhi preparing papers for his 
meetings with the Indian ministers and officials.

It is reported that on this tour Mr. Major will not be asking India to 
sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty nor will he be pressing for 
British mediation in Kashmir. The British government will only be asking 
for India's co-operation in lowering the tension in the region.

                             ( E N D )

Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
From: "Gary A. Woodward" <p00140@psilink.com>
Subject: confidentiality agreement
Organization: Performance Systems Int'l
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:38:06 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

I have a question.  I will pay for the answer (free advice is what 
it is worth).  E-mail please.

Regards.

Gary

Newsgroups: misc.int-property
From: mcherm@msc.cornell.edu (Michael Chermside)
Subject: Re: confidentiality agreement
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:51:13 GMT

In article <2936810199.0.p00140@psilink.com> "Gary A. Woodward" <p00140@psilink.com> writes:
>I have a question.  I will pay for the answer (free advice is what 
>it is worth).  E-mail please.
>
>Regards.
>
>Gary

Well, what IS your question... there's no way I can tell whether or
not I am qualified to answer it unless you somehow specify what it is
that you want to know.

Furthermore, I want to say that I feel sorry for you if you really
feel that "free advice is what it is worth" (meaning "is worth what it
costs" ??).  I have a friend who is like this about some other things
besides advice -- I have seen him find the same exact article
(manufacterer (sp?) and all!) in two different clothing stores, and
return to the store where it cost 2x as much in order to buy it there.
As I said, I feel sorry for anyone who views the world as being such
an evil place aaas to require an attitude like this.  In my own
experience, I have found that there are a great number of people who
have very good advice to offer and who are still willing to give it
away for free (even professionals... really!).  Furthermore, I have
found that the net has more than its share of such noble persons (I'm
not mentioning any names... you know who you are).  But if you don't
see it this way, that's OK with me -- I'm willing to let you pay me.
(Assuming that, once you say what it is that you want to know, I know
something about it.  Otherwise, I'll keep my mouth shut.)

-- 
                                            --- Michael
From: park@pangea.com (Peter J. Park)
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
Subject: Source for Trademark Searches?
Keywords: trademark
Date: 19 Jan 93 19:44:09 GMT
Reply-To: park@pangea.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Pangea Corporation, Annandale, VA, USA

Hi.  I'm looking for pointers to companies that perform common law  
trademark searches.  I've heard of CoreSearch, but don't have any contact  
information for them.  Any other sources or experiences would be greatly  
appreciated.


Thanks,
Peter.

---
Peter J. Park
Pangea Corporation
park@pangea.com
+1-703-256-6871
From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl)
Subject: Re: Source for Trademark Searches?
Keywords: trademark
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:21:12 GMT

In <1993Jan19.194409.10218@pangea.com> park@pangea.com (Peter J. Park) writes:

>Hi.  I'm looking for pointers to companies that perform common law  
>trademark searches.  I've heard of CoreSearch, but don't have any contact  
>information for them.  Any other sources or experiences would be greatly  
>appreciated.

Lots of people call Thomson & Thomson at 1-800-692-8833.


-- 
Carl Oppedahl AA2KW  (intellectual property lawyer)
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY  10112-0228
voice 212-408-2578     fax 212-765-2519
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
From: mavra@harvey (Peter Adkison)
Subject: Sued RPG company seeking advice
Organization: Boeing Defense & Space Group
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:35:52 GMT

Greetings,

I am with a roleplaying game company who was recently sued by a
competitor for trademark infringement, trademark dilution, unfair
competition, and copyright infringement.  We have, I believe, good legal
representation and, I feel, a strong case for our defense.  The purpose
of this post is to briefly describe the case and see if anyone has any
suggestions on how to maximize our position.

In April of 1992 we published a roleplaying game product called The
Primal Order (TPO).  This book (we're talking publishing here, not
computer games) is not a complete roleplaying game in and of itself, 
but is rather what we call a *Capsystem.*  Capsystems are designed to 
be supplements to existing game systems and require that you use them 
in conjunction with such.

In order to explain how to use TPO, we printed "integration notes" on
how TPO interfaces with 17 different roleplaying systems on the market.
TPO itself was 244 pages long, and the integration notes took up, in
total, only about 20 pages of the book (Appendix A).  In addition, on
the back of the book we listed the game systems that our product is
compatible with.  Underneath that listing we referred the reader to the
appropriate page in our book where the trademark ownership listing could
be found (page iv, I believe).  On that page we listed what companies
owned which games/trademarks, etc.  In Appendix A we stated that the
text was not developed with permission of those game companies, etc.

At a summary judgement hearing last month we had two causes of action
(there were six) thrown out, but it now looks like we're going to have
to go to trial on the other four, primarily, we believe, because it was
a non-evidentiary hearing and the judge was therefore not able to look
at TPO and see that we'd done everything correctly.

We've found a few cases that seem to support our position, but I've yet
to find anything in the gaming industry, pariticularly in the
roleplaying industry.  Does anyone know of any cases along these lines?
Any ideas or suggestions?

Our attorney probably has things well in hand, but there's a lot at
stake here and I'm inclined to do as much research and so forth on my
own as I can just in case I happen to stumble onto something he hasn't.

Thank you in advance,

					--Mavra!
					  Peter D. Adkison
					  Systems Analyst
					  Boeing Defense & Space Group

(Please e-mail me at mavra@wizards.com instead of the address in the
header, or post publicly.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
Subject: Re: Looking for prior art for US Patent #4,624,462
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:08:03 GMT

Dan Fishman (dfishman@csn.org) recently responded to a query about
prior art for Patent # 4,624,462.

I would like to add that you should order the "file wrapper" or
prosection history of the patent also, before you seriously decide
to evalute the patent. It appears to me that some of the limitations
in the claims may have been added to overcome specific examiner
objections. This, and other information enclosed therein may be
significant in determining the breadth of the patent.

Bruce E. Hayden
(303) 758-8400
bhayden@csn.org
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
Subject: Re: Source for Trademark Searches?
From: mjensen@charlie.usd.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:45:53 GMT
Reply-To: mjensen@charlie.usd.edu
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of South Dakota Computer Science Dept.

In article <1993Jan19.194409.10218@pangea.com>, park@pangea.com (Peter J. Park) writes:
>Hi.  I'm looking for pointers to companies that perform common law  
>trademark searches.  I've heard of CoreSearch, but don't have any contact  
>information for them.  Any other sources or experiences would be greatly  
>appreciated.
>
>
>Thanks,
>Peter.
>
>---
>Peter J. Park
>Pangea Corporation
>park@pangea.com
>+1-703-256-6871
There is a company called Thomson & Thomson (800) 692 8833
that does trademark searches.  I know little about them except that
they do sample searches for Intellectual Property professors to use
in class for free. 

Mary Brandt Jensen
mjensen@charlie.usd.edu
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
From: grants@wucs1.wustl.edu (Edward R. Fickenscher)
Subject: test
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Distribution: mo
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:20:06 GMT


This is a test.
From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
Newsgroups: misc.int-property
Subject: Re: Looking for prior art for US Patent #4,624,462
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:05:35 GMT
Organization: Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139
NNTP-Posting-Host: nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu
In-reply-to: dfishman@teal.csn.org's message of 26 Jan 93 00:33:45 GMT

>Is there any room in your analysis for the possibility that their patent
>is and should be valid and that "ma and pa" simply want to steal the
>invention for profit?

It is the official position of the League for Programming Freedom that
software patents are harmful to the industry, and its goal is to lobby for
clarification in the law which would prohibit them (as well as for
copyright on user interfaces to programs).  If you want more information,
write to lpf@uunet.uu.net and ask.