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Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act Of 2015, Christopher B. Seaman
Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act Of 2015, Christopher B. Seaman
Christopher B. Seaman
This is an introduction to a Roundtable on the Defend Trade Secrets Act published by the Washington and Lee Law Review Online in 2015.
Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act Of 2015, Christopher B. Seaman
Introduction: The Defend Trade Secrets Act Of 2015, Christopher B. Seaman
Christopher B. Seaman
This is an introduction to a Roundtable on the Defend Trade Secrets Act published by the Washington and Lee Law Review Online in 2015.
The Canadian Public Domain: What, Where, And To What End?, Carys J. Craig
The Canadian Public Domain: What, Where, And To What End?, Carys J. Craig
Carys Craig
This essay explores the important body of scholarship that has emerged on the substance, nature, and role of the public domain in intellectual property law. I offer some concrete definitions of the public domain in the copyright context, identify some ongoing sources of debate in the literature, and highlight some particularly significant voices in public domain discourse. In doing so, my aim is twofold: first, I mean to present a reasonably comprehensive but concise review of the academic public domain movement, which has been directed towards substantiating and politicizing the concept of the public domain, second, I hope to re-situate …
Improving Patent Quality With Applicant Incentives, Stephen Yelderman
Improving Patent Quality With Applicant Incentives, Stephen Yelderman
Stephen Yelderman
This Article offers an alternative approach to the widely recognized problem of low-quality patents being granted by the patent office. Traditional reforms have focused almost exclusively on making the patent office more effective at examination. This Article instead looks at patent quality from an applicant’s perspective, and evaluates how certain patent rules might be encouraging inventors to file higher or lower quality claims. It proposes a variety of reforms to take advantage of applicants’ existing interests in obtaining patents that are both broad enough to create infringing activity and narrow enough to be valid. The result is a distinctive set …
Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, Peter K. Yu
Intellectual Property, Asian Philosophy And The Yin-Yang School, Peter K. Yu
Peter K. Yu
As an introduction to a special issue on intellectual property philosophy, this article focuses on insights from Asian thought. Such a focus is needed not only to provide balance within this special issue, which includes articles focusing primarily on Western philosophy, but also to highlight the compatibility between Asian philosophy and the notion of intellectual property rights. More importantly, this article aims to demonstrate that Asian philosophy may suggest new ways to address the ongoing and highly complex intellectual property challenges confronting emerging economies and the digital environment.
This article begins by providing a brief discussion of the many different …
Intellectual Property And Related Rights In Climate Data, Michael W. Carroll
Intellectual Property And Related Rights In Climate Data, Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll
Indigenous Peoples, Intangible Cultural Heritage And Participation In The United Nations, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Indigenous Peoples, Intangible Cultural Heritage And Participation In The United Nations, Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
This chapter concentrates on the participation of indigenous peoples in multilateral initiatives to protect cultural heritage, with specific reference to intangible heritage. While an international instrument for the protection of intangible heritage was adopted over a decade ago, the importance of intangible heritage for indigenous peoples is evident in their work in various UN fora. I examine indigenous peoples’ interventions before UNESCO and bodies established to implement the Convention on the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage; within WIPO in respect of ongoing moves to adopt specialist instruments on traditional knowledge and cultural expressions; and finally, within UNEP and the implementation …
Prioritising Human Development In African Intellectual Property Law, Janewa Osei Tutu
Prioritising Human Development In African Intellectual Property Law, Janewa Osei Tutu
J. Janewa Osei-Tutu
Human Development As A Core Objective Of Global Intellectual Property, Janewa Osei Tutu
Human Development As A Core Objective Of Global Intellectual Property, Janewa Osei Tutu
J. Janewa Osei-Tutu
Why K-Pop Will Continue To Dominate Social Media: Jenkins' Convergence Culture In Action, Keidra Chaney, Raizel Liebler
Why K-Pop Will Continue To Dominate Social Media: Jenkins' Convergence Culture In Action, Keidra Chaney, Raizel Liebler
Raizel Liebler