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"Open Source" And Private Ordering: A Commentary On Dusollier, Arti K. Rai
"Open Source" And Private Ordering: A Commentary On Dusollier, Arti K. Rai
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Policy-Making Dynamics In Intergovernmental Organizations: A Comment On The Remarks Of Geoffrey Yu, Coenraad Visser
Policy-Making Dynamics In Intergovernmental Organizations: A Comment On The Remarks Of Geoffrey Yu, Coenraad Visser
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Demise And Rebirth Of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment On Technological Change And The Design Of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, Laurence R. Helfer
The Demise And Rebirth Of Plant Variety Protection: A Comment On Technological Change And The Design Of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, Laurence R. Helfer
Chicago-Kent Law Review
No abstract provided.
Technological Change And The Design Of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, Mark D. Janis, Stephen Smith
Technological Change And The Design Of Plant Variety Protection Regimes, Mark D. Janis, Stephen Smith
Chicago-Kent Law Review
In this paper, we examine the potential for plant variety protection ("PVP") regimes—that is, sui generis, industry-specific intellectual property regimes—to become compromised as a result of technological change. In particular, we analyze the shift in plant breeding from phenotypic selection to genotypic selection, and consider the impact of that shift on existing plant variety protection. We also lay out an alternative structure for plant intellectual property protection based on unfair competition, a model that differs radically in some respects from current PVP schemes. We offer our model as a starting point for debate on adaptations that might improve PVP …
Intellectual Property, Free Trade Agreements And Economic Development, Anselm Kamperman Sanders
Intellectual Property, Free Trade Agreements And Economic Development, Anselm Kamperman Sanders
Georgia State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Role Of International Ngos In The Intellectual Property Policy-Making And Norm-Setting Activities Of Multilateral Institutions, Duncan Matthews
The Role Of International Ngos In The Intellectual Property Policy-Making And Norm-Setting Activities Of Multilateral Institutions, Duncan Matthews
Chicago-Kent Law Review
International NGOs play a significant role in relation to intellectual property policy-making and norm-setting in the following multilateral institutions: the World Trade Organization ("WTO"); the World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO"); the World Health Organization ("WHO"); the Convention on Biological Diversity Conference of the Party ("CBD-COP"); and the Food and Agriculture Organization ("FAO') of the United Nations. International NGOs enhance the capacity of developing country delegates to multilateral institutions to negotiate on intellectual property issues. Although there are limits to the relationship between developing country delegates and international NGOs, relative to the resources available, international NGOs have had a considerable impact, …
Sharing Access To Intellectual Property Through Private Ordering, Severine Dusollier
Sharing Access To Intellectual Property Through Private Ordering, Severine Dusollier
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Private ordering mechanisms, such as contracts or technological measures, have increasingly been used to shift the balance between exclusive property and free access to intellectual creation embedded in all IP regimes. Most surprising is the use of private ordering mechanisms, mainly licensing schemes. This article aims at assessing the nature of norm-making operated by open-access initiatives, as well as its normative sustainability as a project to enlarge the public domain within intellectual property. My conclusion is that public ordering still has a crucial role to play to moderate the expansion of intellectual property and to ensure that intellectual creations remain …
The Structure And Process Of Negotiations At The World Intellectual Property Organization, Geoffrey Yu
The Structure And Process Of Negotiations At The World Intellectual Property Organization, Geoffrey Yu
Chicago-Kent Law Review
On October 13, 2006, the Deputy Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization, Geoffrey Yu, spoke at the Chicago-Kent Symposium Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Reconciling and Accommodating Different National Levels of Protection. Included here is a transcript of his remarks, which outlined the organizational structure of the Organization and the management and process of international discussions within the Organization.
The Life Of An Author: Samuel Egerton Brydges And The Copyright Act 1814, Ronan Deazley
The Life Of An Author: Samuel Egerton Brydges And The Copyright Act 1814, Ronan Deazley
Georgia State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Patents On A Shoestring: Making Patent Protection Work For Developing Countries, Sean A. Pager
Patents On A Shoestring: Making Patent Protection Work For Developing Countries, Sean A. Pager
Georgia State University Law Review
No abstract provided.
Here There Be Pirates: How China Is Meeting Its Ip Enforcement Obligations Under Trips, Kate Colpitts Hunter
Here There Be Pirates: How China Is Meeting Its Ip Enforcement Obligations Under Trips, Kate Colpitts Hunter
San Diego International Law Journal
This paper will examine whether China is meeting its obligations to protect IP rights under the TRIPS agreement, an international intellectual property trade agreement China acceded to upon joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). Moreover, it will address whether China's increased IP protection in law equals increased protection in fact. Part II will describe China's legal structure, its TRIPS obligations upon joining the WTO, and China's IP laws. Part III will discuss China's enforcement of these IP laws from the perspective of developed nations and from China's own perspective. Part IV includes suggestions on how China can improve its enforcement …
Two Thoughts About Traditional Knowledge, William Fisher
Two Thoughts About Traditional Knowledge, William Fisher
Law and Contemporary Problems
Fisher argues the traditional knowledge of environmentalism and the public domain ideas by presenting two combined related themes involving the British colonist of Native Americans. The idea of devaluing the Indian's nonacquisitive, natural, respectful way of living lightly upon the land while conserving it, and fostering imperialism and unjust conquest. Among other things, he formulates three parallel provisions to the TRIPS Agreement to increase the leverage of the countries in determining the terms on which flora, fauna, medicinal knowledge, folklore, and traditional art forms are exploited by others.
Testing The Boundaries Of Copyright Protection: The Google Books Library Project And The Fair Use Doctrine, Nari Na
Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy
No abstract provided.
The Ends Of Intellectual Property: Health As A Case Study, Arti K. Rai
The Ends Of Intellectual Property: Health As A Case Study, Arti K. Rai
Law and Contemporary Problems
Rai points out the great limitations of some conventional measures of efficiency and cites quality-adjusted life years (QALY), an alternative measure that is actually used in making health-care decisions, as an example. the ability to pay. Quantifying benefits in terms of QALY does not give us a neutral measure of worth, of course but it does expose the value judgments being made and give us a yardstick other than intuition or anecdote for measuring effects. Thus, she argues that rather than giving up on economic analysis, other ways to broaden its scope should be sought.
The Anarchist In The Coffee House: A Brief Consideration Of Local Culture, The Free Culture Movement, And Prospects For A Global Public Sphere, Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Anarchist In The Coffee House: A Brief Consideration Of Local Culture, The Free Culture Movement, And Prospects For A Global Public Sphere, Siva Vaidhyanathan
Law and Contemporary Problems
Jürgen Habermas' influential historical work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, describes a moment in the social and political history of Europe in which a rising bourgeoisie was able to gather in salons and cafes to discuss matters of public concern. The public sphere represented a set of sites and conventions in the eighteenth century in which (almost exclusively male) members of the bourgeoisie could forge a third space to mediate between domestic concerns and matters of state. Here, Vaidhyanathan examines one particular Public Sphere experiment--the rise of a global Free Culture Movement that aims to limit the spread …
Network Rules, Susan P. Crawford
Network Rules, Susan P. Crawford
Law and Contemporary Problems
Crawford compares the debate between the telcos and the online companies over broadband access regimes often called the "network neutrality" debate to the ongoing tussle between intellectual property maximalists and "free culture" advocates which are strikingly parallel sets of arguments. The maximalists claim that creativity comes from lone genuises (the romantic author) who must be given legal incentives to works but intellectual property scholars have carefully examined the incentives of their arguments and have pointed out that granting overly strong property rights to copyright holders might not be socially appropriate. Moreover, the network providers claim that they (the romantic builders) …
The Invention Of Traditional Knowledge, Madhavi Sunder
The Invention Of Traditional Knowledge, Madhavi Sunder
Law and Contemporary Problems
Sunder argues that the failure of intellectual property to recognize the contributions of traditional and natural sources cannot be rectified by mere payment and she posits a non-monetizable, non-utilitarian benefit in terms of worth or dignity in having one's contribution as the subject labelled of an intellectual property right. Foregrounding the important role of "raw materials" in the process of innovation, cultural environmentalism helped provide a theoretical and political basis for recognition and recompense for the purveyors of those raw materials-often indigenous peoples who have cultivated the earth's biodiversity and who hold "traditional knowledge" about that biodiversity. Moreover, focus on …
Payment In Credit: Copyright Law And Subcultural Creativity, Rebecca Tushnet
Payment In Credit: Copyright Law And Subcultural Creativity, Rebecca Tushnet
Law and Contemporary Problems
Copyright lawyers talk and write a lot about the uncertainties of fair use and the deterrent effects of a clearance culture on publishers, teachers, filmmakers, and the like, but know less about the choices people make about copyright on a daily basis, especially when they are not working. Here, Tushnet examines one subcultural group that engages in a variety of practices, from pure copying and distribution of others' works to creation of new stories, art, and audiovisual works: the media-fan community. Among other things, she discusses some differences between fair use and fan practices, focused around attribution as an alternative …
Cultural Environmentalism And The Constructed Commons, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Cultural Environmentalism And The Constructed Commons, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Law and Contemporary Problems
Van Houweling explores both the benefits and failings of conservation easements on land on the one hand and the licensing commons on the other. Conservation easement The tools of cultural environmentalism in the lights of objections to conservation easements and more general concerns with complicated and fragmented property rights are also considered. Among other things, she provides clear theoretical differences between the public domain, where freedom is based on the absence of property rights, and the licensing commons, where freedom is based on the absence on the preemptive exercise of the property rights by the rights holder in order to …
The Irs’S Cost-Sharing Proposals In The Worldwide Tax System: Why Congress Should Avoid Anti-Competitive Transfer Pricing Regulations And Embrace A Territorial Tax, James D. Mandolfo
The Irs’S Cost-Sharing Proposals In The Worldwide Tax System: Why Congress Should Avoid Anti-Competitive Transfer Pricing Regulations And Embrace A Territorial Tax, James D. Mandolfo
Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law
No abstract provided.
Harmonization Through Condemnation: Is New London The Key To World Patent Harmony?, Max S. Oppenheimer
Harmonization Through Condemnation: Is New London The Key To World Patent Harmony?, Max S. Oppenheimer
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Since 1790, when two U.S. patent applicants have claimed the same invention, the patent has been awarded to the first inventor. Today, the United States stands alone in the industrialized world, and many argue that the United States should, in the interest of world patent harmony, change its system so as to award a contested patent to the first applicant. Of the arguments advanced to justify the change, the only ones that withstand scrutiny are that "all the other countries are doing it" and the hope that some concessions in other aspects of intellectual property or trade might be obtained …
Transcript: Opening Remarks, Peter Jaszi
Transcript: Opening Remarks, Peter Jaszi
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
No abstract provided.
The Importance Of History To The Design Of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission And Intellectual Property Law, William E. Kovacic
The Importance Of History To The Design Of Competition Policy Strategy: The Federal Trade Commission And Intellectual Property Law, William E. Kovacic
Seattle University Law Review
The Article's framework for considering the value of history in shaping strategy is the effort of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to apply its competition policy powers to issues involving intellectual property (IP). The Article chooses the example of intellectual property because of its importance to the modern work of the FTC and the increasingly significant place that intellectual property and, more generally, technology-driven innovation hold in the field of competition policy. To provide context for the discussion, Part II of the Article presents a profile of the FTC's modern competition policy initiatives concerning intellectual property. Part III then reviews …
Patent Ships Sail An Antitrust Sea, Joseph Scott Miller
Patent Ships Sail An Antitrust Sea, Joseph Scott Miller
Seattle University Law Review
The deeper truths evoked by patent ships sailing an antitrust sea are three. First, free competition is the pervasive, baseline reality, the background norm; patent protection is the temporary, partial exception. Second, we grasp both patent and antitrust policy with a common science: economics. Third, although neither patent nor antitrust law doctrines are good tools for fixing fundamental problems in the other body of law, both bodies of law help us better understand the shortcomings of the other. I explore these ideas in turn, below.
Independent Ink At The Crossroads Of Antitrust And Intellectual Property Law: The Court's Holding Regarding Market Power In Cases Involving Patents And Implications In Cases Involving Copyrights, Leonard J. Feldman, Rima J. Alaily, Chad D. Farrell
Independent Ink At The Crossroads Of Antitrust And Intellectual Property Law: The Court's Holding Regarding Market Power In Cases Involving Patents And Implications In Cases Involving Copyrights, Leonard J. Feldman, Rima J. Alaily, Chad D. Farrell
Seattle University Law Review
By eliminating the market power presumption for patent holders, Independent Ink calls into question the presumption's continued validity for tying arrangements involving copyrights. While the Court's holding directly applies only to patents, we present three reasons why, after Independent Ink, the presumption can no longer be viable in antitrust lawsuits challenging a tying arrangement involving a copyrighted product. First, the Court's rationale for eliminating the presumption including citations to extensive academic writings, agency guidelines, and legislative amendments precludes the presumption's continued application in any other context. Second, copyrights are significantly less likely than patents to confer market power because …
Pto Rulemaking In The Twenty-First Century: Defining The Line Between Strategic Planning And Abuse Of Authority, Brian E. Mack
Pto Rulemaking In The Twenty-First Century: Defining The Line Between Strategic Planning And Abuse Of Authority, Brian E. Mack
Fordham Law Review
No abstract provided.
Keep Your Eye On Your Ball: Patent Holders' Evolving Duty To Patrol The Marketplace For Infringement, Aaron B. Rabinowitz
Keep Your Eye On Your Ball: Patent Holders' Evolving Duty To Patrol The Marketplace For Infringement, Aaron B. Rabinowitz
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Choosing Between The Advice Of Counsel Defense To Willful Patent Infringement Or The Effective Assistance Of Trial Counsel: A Bridge Or The Troubled Waters, Christopher A. Harkins
Choosing Between The Advice Of Counsel Defense To Willful Patent Infringement Or The Effective Assistance Of Trial Counsel: A Bridge Or The Troubled Waters, Christopher A. Harkins
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
Trouble is brewing for patent infringement defendants who use lawyers from one law firm to act as trial counsel and other lawyers from the same or different firm (albeit perfectly screened off from the trial team) to prepare a non-infringement opinion as an advice of counsel defense to allegations of willful infringement. The 2006 Federal Circuit decision in EchoStar has set off a veritable feeding frenzy of attacks by patentees' counsel on the most sacred of attorney client communications and work product: that of trial counsel. In a case of first impression, one federal court has even granted a motion …
National Cable & Telecommunications Association V. Brand X Internet Services: Resolving Irregularities In Regulation?, Amy L. Signaigo
National Cable & Telecommunications Association V. Brand X Internet Services: Resolving Irregularities In Regulation?, Amy L. Signaigo
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.
Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating The Ipod Fairplay Drm Controversy, Nicola F. Sharpe, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating The Ipod Fairplay Drm Controversy, Nicola F. Sharpe, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa
Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property
No abstract provided.