By Darren Smyth to The IPKat on 3/15/2012 This Kat has been thinking more about compulsory licensing provisions and what is permitted under the TRIPS agreement, following the post yesterday about this Decision of the Controller of Patents Mumbai concerning compulsory licences in the field of pharmaceuticals. This post has attracted the largest amount of e-mail correspondence of any post by this [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...by Jeremy @ The 1709 Blog One of the most surprising book titles to cross this reviewer’s desk in recent times is Formalities in Copyright Law. An analysis of their history, rationales and possible future, by Stef van Gompel. The surprise is that, having been schooled in the prevalent sentiment of the past half century that formalities are a [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Sampsung The Federal Court of Australia (FCA) held that an Internet-based free-to-air TV recording service was in compliance with copyright law (Singtel Optus Pty Ltd v National Rugby League Investments Pty Ltd (“Optus v. NRL”) [2012] FCA 34). In July 2011, SingTel Optus Pty Limited (“Optus”), one of Australia’s largest telecommunication companies, announced a [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Monika to The 1709 Blog on 3/06/2012 The German coalition government has decided to create a new neighbouring right for newspaper publishers. In the future, commercial Internet service providers, such as search engine providers and news aggregators, shall pay an equitable remuneration to publishers for the use of media products such as newspaper articles. The move [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...By Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property A new section of the Pierce Law IP Mall that is a signficant collection of around 250 old Intellectual Property Treatises. Below are the links to each of the subsets that the treatise are broken into: Copyright, General, Patent and Trademark. If you have any questions, please email Professor Cavicchi [...]
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