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Louboutin Heels And The Competition Goals Of Eu Trade Mark Law, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 38 (2019), Cesar Ramirez-Montes
Louboutin Heels And The Competition Goals Of Eu Trade Mark Law, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 38 (2019), Cesar Ramirez-Montes
UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law
This article critically examines the judicial applications of the EU functionality doctrine and argues that recent CJEU decisions are at odds with the EU legislator’s declared intention to give functionality a much greater role in promoting product market competition. As a statutory ground for refusing registration even in the presence of consumer association and established goodwill, EU functionality serves to avoid undue competitive advantages by refusing protection in support of freedom to compete. EU functionality represents a significant obstacle to registration for purely natural, technical and value adding signs representing the shape of the goods. As of 2015, the wording …
The New Approaches To Digital Anti-Piracy In The Entertainment Industry, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 75 (2019), Igor Slabykh
The New Approaches To Digital Anti-Piracy In The Entertainment Industry, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 75 (2019), Igor Slabykh
UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law
This article is about digital anti-piracy. The entertainment industry has been combating piracy over the internet for the last 40 years. This article gives an overview of the digital anti-piracy approaches, analyzes the reasons why people commit piracy, demonstrates the disappointing results of the current state of anti-piracy, and offers new approaches that may help to reduce digital piracy.
The Forking Phenomenon And The Future Of Cryptocurrency In The Law, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2019), Chelsea Button
The Forking Phenomenon And The Future Of Cryptocurrency In The Law, 19 Uic Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 1 (2019), Chelsea Button
UIC Review of Intellectual Property Law
In the evolving and ever-changing world of cryptocurrency, new and exciting phenomena arise, including hard forks. Hard forks occur when two groups supporting a cryptocurrency disagree on how the code should evolve. If the changes are incompatible, the code diverges into two chains, essentially doubling the amount of each holder’s coin. Forking a coin is theoretically easy. However, maintaining a fork requires great effort and support by members of the community. This Article discusses the November 15, 2018 Bitcoin Cash hard fork and subsequent lawsuit, analyzing anti-trust, negligence, and conversion claims. Forcing de facto fiduciary duties on developers and miners …
Can Accessibility Liberate The "Lost Ark" Of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are "Places Of Public Accommodation”, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 327 (2019), Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham
Can Accessibility Liberate The "Lost Ark" Of Scholarly Work?: University Library Institutional Repositories Are "Places Of Public Accommodation”, 52 Uic J. Marshall L. Rev. 327 (2019), Raizel Liebler, Gregory Cunningham
UIC Law Review
For any body of knowledge – an ark of power or a corpus of scholarship – to be studied and used by people, it needs to be accessible to those seeking information. Universities, through their libraries, now aim to make more of the scholarship produced available for free to all through institutional repositories. However, the goal of being truly open for an institutional repository is more than the traditional definition of open access. It also means openness in a more general sense. Creating a scholarship-based online space also needs to take into consideration potential barriers for people with disabilities. This …