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Patents, Property and Competition Policy
Hovenkamp, Herbert - 2013
The decision to regulate involves the identification of markets where simple assignment of property rights is not … property rights are well defined when they are initially created and can subsequently be traded to some reasonably competitive … is granted it has neither significant ongoing regulation nor a clear and effective initial assignment of property rights …
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Relocating Geographical Indications
Gangjee, Dev Saif - 2011
Property (IP) law. It sets out to locate GIs within the ‘webs of significance’ spun across the legal discourse of a century, by …
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Copyright as Information Policy : Google Book Search from a Law and Economics Perspective
Lichtman, Douglas - 2012
The copyright system has long been understood to play a critical role when it comes to the development and distribution of creative work. Copyright serves a second fundamental purpose, however: it encourages the development and distribution of related technologies like hardware that might be...
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Patentability and Scope of Protection for DNA Sequence-Related Inventions From the Perspective of the United States of America and Europe
Milkov LL.M., Radoslav - 2014
Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone through great controversies. Protection is required for an investor to make an investment but how broad should the given protection be? Whether the invention is a micro-organism...
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Overlap between Trade Marks and Geographical Indications in Australia
Hinchliffe, Sarah - 2014
An ongoing saga concerning the conflict between geographical indications and trade marks in Australia has existed since 1993 in relation to wines. While the implementation of the Australia-US Free Trade Agreement in 2004 has clarified the approach, some grey areas in Australian law currently...
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The Key Facts : On the European Patent Organisation and its Recent Judicial Reforms
Butriy, Dr Mr Olena - 2018
In the following the author presents the key facts on the structure of the European Patent Organisation (EPOrg) which is in charge of patent grant in Europe. A particular attention is given to the question of judicial review of decisions taken by the various organs of the EPOrg. The recent...
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Antitrust Cross-border Pay-TV Case : Accommodating Contractual Freedom Within the EU’s Single Market Objective
Reyna, Agustin - 2019
This is a commentary of the judgement of the General Court of 12 December 2018 which dismissed the appeal brought by the French broadcaster Groupe Canal + against the Commission’s decision accepting the commitments offered by Paramount in the cross-border pay-TV case (AT.40023). This ruling...
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Grounding Innovation : How Ex-Ante Prohibitions and Ex-Post Allowances Impede Commercial Drone Use
Ravich, Timothy - 2018
Unmanned aerial vehicles — “UAVs” or “drones” — are increasingly becoming a mainstream commercial phenomenon and tool for a vast range of commercial consumer, prosumer, and professional activities. Given advances in automation and miniaturization generally — and flight control...
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Understanding the Changing Landscape of Data Protection Laws
Klinkner, Blake - 2019
As businesses and other entities have sought to collect more personal data on individuals, the public has pushed back, and lawmakers throughout the United States and elsewhere have responded by passing data protection laws. Recent data protection laws passed by the European Union and by several...
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A Comment on the Copyright Exceptions Review and Private Copying
Weatherall, Kimberlee G. - 2005
The issue of private copying, and how it fits with copyright law, has hit front and centre of the current copyright exceptions review. While copying is widespread, and iPods are popular, under current Australian copyright law, almost all private copying - including time-shifting and...
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