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The International Trade Commission: Potential Bias, Hold-Up, And The Need For Reform, William Dolan
The International Trade Commission: Potential Bias, Hold-Up, And The Need For Reform, William Dolan
Duke Law & Technology Review
The International Trade Commission (ITC) is an alternate venue for holders of U.S. patents to pursue litigation against infringing products produced abroad and imported to the United States. Because the ITC may only grant injunctive relief, it has awarded injunctions in situations where there may have been better and more efficient remedies to the infringement available through litigation in federal district court. The increased likelihood of injunctive relief bolsters the position of patent holders against a wide range of producers in royalty negotiations and can harm the end consumers through a process known as "patent hold-up." There are currently sweeping …
Experimenting With Territoriality: Pan-European Music License And The Persistence Of Old Paradigms, Ana Eduarda Santos
Experimenting With Territoriality: Pan-European Music License And The Persistence Of Old Paradigms, Ana Eduarda Santos
Duke Law & Technology Review
This article tells the story of what could have been an interesting and important shift in our approach to territoriality in the digitalized world. Europe had the chance to be the cradle of an unprecedented copyright experience – the creation of a quasi pan- continental license in the music field – but it might have lost that opportunity in the midst of non-binding recommendations and resolutions. This article argues this loss is due to the overreaching persistence of old paradigms, namely the principle of territoriality.