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Jacques De Werra (Ed.), Research Handbook On Intellectual Property Licensing, Lucie Guibault
Jacques De Werra (Ed.), Research Handbook On Intellectual Property Licensing, Lucie Guibault
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In the laws of most jurisdictions in the world, IP licenses are an unnamed form of contract, most often of a hybride nature, for which no specific legal framework exists, save for rare exceptions. As a result, the formation, content and interpretation of IP licences call for the application of relevant norms from numerous other fields of the law, such as contract law, property law, commercial law, consumer law etc. Despite efforts of harmonisation at the international and regional levels, these related areas of the law remain to a large extent nationally determined, influenced by the legal tradition of each …
Abrogating The Witness Immunity Rule: How Fast? How Far?, Robert Currie
Abrogating The Witness Immunity Rule: How Fast? How Far?, Robert Currie
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This article examines the current state of the witness immunity rule in Canada (i.e. the rule that individuals, especially experts, are immune from tort actions which might arise from their participation in court proceedings). In light of the UK Supreme Court's modification of the rule in Jones v. Kaney (2011), some proposals are made for restricting the scope of the rule and thus allowing meritorious litigation to proceed in spite of it.