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The Inconsistency Between Section 301 And Trips: Counterproductive With Respect To The Future Of International Protection Of Intellectual Property Rights?, Lina M. Monten
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This comment examines the inconsistency between continued international efforts to ensure uniform protection of intellectual property rights, most recently via the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS), on the one hand; and the use of unilateral measures by the United States, specifically Section 301 of the Trade Act, to ensure greater protection for United States' intellectual property rights, on the other. This comment first discusses the historical development of international protection of intellectual property rights, specifically focusing on the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property, …
Problems With Sharing The Pirates’ Booty: An Analysis Of Trips, The Copyright Divide Between The United States And China & Two Potential Solutions, Manesh Jiten Shah
Problems With Sharing The Pirates’ Booty: An Analysis Of Trips, The Copyright Divide Between The United States And China & Two Potential Solutions, Manesh Jiten Shah
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
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Beyond Cybersquatting: Taking Domain Name Disputes Past Trademark Policy, Jacqueline D. Lipton
Beyond Cybersquatting: Taking Domain Name Disputes Past Trademark Policy, Jacqueline D. Lipton
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All good 'cyberlawyers' know that in the late 1990s, legal and regulatory measures were adopted, both at the domestic and international level to address the then-growing problem of 'cybersquatting': that is, the registration of often multiple domain names corresponding to valuable corporate trademarks with the intention of extorting high prices from the trademark owners for transferring the names to them. Since 1999, the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy ('UDRP') in particular, complemented by the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ('ACPA'), has been very successful in combating this practice. Unfortunately, since the late 1990s, there has been little movement towards developing …