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Healthy Data Protection, Lothar Determann
Healthy Data Protection, Lothar Determann
Michigan Technology Law Review
Modern medicine is evolving at a tremendous speed. On a daily basis, we learn about new treatments, drugs, medical devices, and diagnoses. Both established technology companies and start-ups focus on health-related products and services in competition with traditional healthcare businesses. Telemedicine and electronic health records have the potential to improve the effectiveness of treatments significantly. Progress in the medical field depends above all on data, specifically health information. Physicians, researchers, and developers need health information to help patients by improving diagnoses, customizing treatments and finding new cures.
Yet law and policymakers are currently more focused on the fact that health …
Digitizing Scent And Flavor: A Copyright Perspective, Amara Lopez
Digitizing Scent And Flavor: A Copyright Perspective, Amara Lopez
Michigan Technology Law Review
Should the flavor of a cheese fall under copyright protection? The Court of Justice of the European Union recently confronted this question in Levola Hengelo BV v. Smilde Foods. Although the court ultimately denied protection, its reasoning opened many doors for those seeking intellectual property protection for scents and flavors. The court implied that it was the subjective nature of a cheese flavor that bars it from enjoying the protection copyright affords, which begs the question of what would happen if there were a sufficiently objective way to describe a flavor.
Recent developments in technology have led to the digitization …