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[ontolog-forum] The symbol triangle, revised

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From: John Bottoms <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 20:37:03 -0400
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This is an interesting node.

"Congressman Darrell Issa, (R) California's 49th District, has released the draft intellectual property chapter of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) on KeepTheWebOPEN.com, while calling on US Trade Representative Ron Kirk to publicly release the latest text U.S. negotiators are seeking to include in the agreement. TPP is being negotiated by the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, but because the Obama Administration has kept citizens, many-stakeholders and Congress in the dark, little is known about the intellectual property (IP) rights chapter of TPP beyond rumors and this February 2011 U.S. draft proposal."

From: http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=976:issa-releases-the-trans-pacific-partnership-intellectual-property-rights-chapter-on-keepthewebopencom&catid=63:2011-press-releases

In perusing the text of the draft accord, I came across the following text (skip to the bottom for the juicy bits):
  "TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS CHAPTER
DRAFT – FEBRUARY 10, 2011 - Derived

CHAPTER [ ]
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
. . .
ARTICLE 2: TRADEMARKS, INCLUDING GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
Trademarks
1. No Party may require, as a condition of registration, that a sign be visually perceptible,
nor may a Party deny registration of a trademark solely on the grounds that the sign of which it is
composed is a sound or a scent."

A "scent". Does that mean what I think it means?
Is that working appropriately correct?
What is the basis for the identification of a scent?
Should there be a universal scent repository, ontology schema or SCENT_UI so that everyone knows to which scent a statement refers?

-John Bottoms
 FirstStar Systems
 Concord, MA (not far from Walden Pond)

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