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Pruning The European Intellectual Property Tree - In Search Of Common Principles And Roots, Severine Dusollier
Pruning The European Intellectual Property Tree - In Search Of Common Principles And Roots, Severine Dusollier
Severine Dusollier
The European Union knows a multiplicity of IP rights, from classical ones (copyright, patent, trademark or design) to more marginal ones, in terms of economic sectors concerned (rights in database, in plant varieties, in semiconductors, in geographical indications). This paper aims at identifying and assessing the existing similarities or common principles in the intellectual property rights in the European Union. Despite their apparent diverging functions, subject matter and scope of protection, copyright, trademark, patent and the other intellectual property rights share at least the fact that they belong to a set of rules granting some exclusive rights in intangible assets, …