Internet, alt.obituaries, 2004-09-22
Information trouvée : décès 2004 : Arpad Bogsch, a Hungarian-born American credited with creating the modern
system for protecting such "intellectual property" as patents and copyrights, died
Sunday, his family announced Tuesday. He was 85. Bogsch, who headed the United Nations'
World Intellectual Property Organization for 24 years, died... He worked for the copyright
division of the U.N. Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization before becoming
legal counselor at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C., in 1954. He became
a U.S. citizen five years later. Bogsch began working for WIPO's predecessor, the
United International Bureaux for the Protection of Intellectual Property, in 1963.
He became WIPO's first deputy director in 1970 and took over as director-general three
years later.