Financial Services, Patent Experts Seek More Certainty On Business-Method Patents, Bilski Case
NEW YORK - Patent lawyers from financial services companies and other firms this week said they are hopeful that change at the US Patent and Trademark Office will bring solutions to their concerns with the business method patents, application backlogs, patent quality problems and other issues. Read More…
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Saturday, 8 August 2009
Friday, 7 August 2009
The Whizz of Electrons and the Wisdom of Elders: Linking Traditional Knowledge and
The Whizz of Electrons and the Wisdom of Elders: Linking Traditional Knowledge and Western Science
Ameyali Ramos Castillo, UNU IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative
With pressing environmental challenges like climate change and increasing socio-economic complexities, the relationship between traditional knowledge (TK) and science is not receiving considerable attention. At the forefront of innovation are numerous research initiatives that link TK and western science...
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Ameyali Ramos Castillo, UNU IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative
With pressing environmental challenges like climate change and increasing socio-economic complexities, the relationship between traditional knowledge (TK) and science is not receiving considerable attention. At the forefront of innovation are numerous research initiatives that link TK and western science...
READ More here http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/
Thursday, 6 August 2009
Life-Saving Mosquito Nets Subject Of Tiff Over Trade Secrets
COPENHAGEN - While sales of insecticide-treated bed nets have skyrocketed in recent years and boosting their use is among the UN Millennium Development Goals, two producers of the nets have been caught in a rigorous legal case involving trade secrets. Now the English High Court has ruled that one of the companies, Bestnet, has misused the trade secrets of the other company, Vestergaard Frandsen (VF).
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New Publications by MIPLC Alumni and Staff (II)
Kelvin W. Willoughby, “How Much Does Technology Really Matter in Patent Law? A Comparative Analysis of Doctrines of Appropriate Patentable Subject Matter in American and European Patent Law,” Federal Circuit Bar Journal, 18, 1 (2008), 63-138.
Kelvin W. Willoughby, “How do entrepreneurial technology firms really get financed, and what difference does it make?” International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 5, 1 (2008), 1-28.
Kelvin W. Willoughby, “How do entrepreneurial technology firms really get financed, and what difference does it make?” International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management, 5, 1 (2008), 1-28.
Thursday, 23 July 2009
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Recent Publications by MIPLC Alumni and Faculty
ABEYESEKERE, Indunil
The Protection of Expression of Folklore in Sri Lanka, IIC 2/2007, 183-203.
BASSO, Maristela
Propriedade Intelectual na Era pós-OMC (Intellectual Property in the Post-WTO Era), Livraria do Advogado Editora,
Porto Alegre, RS.
EILAND, Murray Lee
Patenting Traditional Medicine,
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 2007, Vol. 89/1, 45-83.
GANEA, Peter
Ökonomische Aspekte der urheberrechtlichen Erschöpfung, GRUR Int. 2005, 102-107.
GOLDSTEIN, Paul;
STRAUS, Joseph (eds.)
Intellectual Property in Asia: Law, Economics, History and Politics (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law),
Springer, 2009.
HALMEN, Katherine E.
The Effects of the Corporate Diversification Trend on Trademarks,
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 2006, Vol. 10 (3), 459-513.
KLIMKEVICIUTE, Danguole
Specifics of the Legal Protection of Three-Dimensional Trademarks: Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects, JUSTITIA 2008, No. 1, 40-52.
KLIMKEVICIUTE, Danguole
The Boundaries of the Legal Protection of Well-Known Trademarks: The Problems of Legal Regulation and The Effects of the Corporate Diversification Trend on Trademarks, JUSTITIA 2008, No. 2, 36-50.
LAUB, Christoph
Software Patenting: Legal Standards in Europe and the US in View of Strategic Limitations of IP Systems, The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2006),
Vol. 9, no. 3, 344-372.
Patentfähigkeit von Softwareerfindungen: Rechtliche Standards in Europa und in den USA und deren Bedeutung für den internationalen Anmelder", GRUR Int. 2006, 629-640
MADHAVAN, Mahesh
Copyright versus Database Right of Protection in the UK: The Bioinformatics Bone of Contention, The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2006), Vol. 9, no. 1, 61-99.
MENINSKY, Carla
Comment on decisions "Chamberlain v. Skylink" and "Lexmark v. Static Control",
IIC, 2/2005, pp. 263-270.
MIDTBØ, Kaja Veel
Amendments to the Norwegian Patent Act-Implementation of Directive 98/44/EC,
IIC 5/2005, pp. 542-549.
MOURI, Mineko;
HEATH, Christopher
Employees' Inventions in Japan,
IIC, 6/2005, pp. 663-682.
ONO, Nahoko
Better than Nothing – Japan's Next Move on Patentability to Medical Methods,
IIC 2/2006, 196-218.
PISTORIUS, Tana
From Snail Mail to E-Mail – A South African Perspective on the Web of Conflicting Rules on the Time of E-Contracting, Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa XXXIX (2), 178-123, July 2006.
Developing Countries and Copyright in the Information Age - The Functional Equivalent Implementation of the WCT, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 2006 (2)
Copyright in the Information Age: The Catch-22 of Digital Technology, Critical Arts 2006 (1).
WAN, Yong
China's Regulations on the Right of Communication through the Information Network, Journal of the Copyright Society of the United States, 2007, Vol. 54 (2-3), 525-544.
The Protection of Expression of Folklore in Sri Lanka, IIC 2/2007, 183-203.
BASSO, Maristela
Propriedade Intelectual na Era pós-OMC (Intellectual Property in the Post-WTO Era), Livraria do Advogado Editora,
Porto Alegre, RS.
EILAND, Murray Lee
Patenting Traditional Medicine,
Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society, 2007, Vol. 89/1, 45-83.
GANEA, Peter
Ökonomische Aspekte der urheberrechtlichen Erschöpfung, GRUR Int. 2005, 102-107.
GOLDSTEIN, Paul;
STRAUS, Joseph (eds.)
Intellectual Property in Asia: Law, Economics, History and Politics (MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law),
Springer, 2009.
HALMEN, Katherine E.
The Effects of the Corporate Diversification Trend on Trademarks,
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 2006, Vol. 10 (3), 459-513.
KLIMKEVICIUTE, Danguole
Specifics of the Legal Protection of Three-Dimensional Trademarks: Some Theoretical and Practical Aspects, JUSTITIA 2008, No. 1, 40-52.
KLIMKEVICIUTE, Danguole
The Boundaries of the Legal Protection of Well-Known Trademarks: The Problems of Legal Regulation and The Effects of the Corporate Diversification Trend on Trademarks, JUSTITIA 2008, No. 2, 36-50.
LAUB, Christoph
Software Patenting: Legal Standards in Europe and the US in View of Strategic Limitations of IP Systems, The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2006),
Vol. 9, no. 3, 344-372.
Patentfähigkeit von Softwareerfindungen: Rechtliche Standards in Europa und in den USA und deren Bedeutung für den internationalen Anmelder", GRUR Int. 2006, 629-640
MADHAVAN, Mahesh
Copyright versus Database Right of Protection in the UK: The Bioinformatics Bone of Contention, The Journal of World Intellectual Property (2006), Vol. 9, no. 1, 61-99.
MENINSKY, Carla
Comment on decisions "Chamberlain v. Skylink" and "Lexmark v. Static Control",
IIC, 2/2005, pp. 263-270.
MIDTBØ, Kaja Veel
Amendments to the Norwegian Patent Act-Implementation of Directive 98/44/EC,
IIC 5/2005, pp. 542-549.
MOURI, Mineko;
HEATH, Christopher
Employees' Inventions in Japan,
IIC, 6/2005, pp. 663-682.
ONO, Nahoko
Better than Nothing – Japan's Next Move on Patentability to Medical Methods,
IIC 2/2006, 196-218.
PISTORIUS, Tana
From Snail Mail to E-Mail – A South African Perspective on the Web of Conflicting Rules on the Time of E-Contracting, Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa XXXIX (2), 178-123, July 2006.
Developing Countries and Copyright in the Information Age - The Functional Equivalent Implementation of the WCT, Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 2006 (2)
Copyright in the Information Age: The Catch-22 of Digital Technology, Critical Arts 2006 (1).
WAN, Yong
China's Regulations on the Right of Communication through the Information Network, Journal of the Copyright Society of the United States, 2007, Vol. 54 (2-3), 525-544.
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
MIPLC IP ROUND TABLE JULY 2009
The shrinking snow of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, East Africa is often cited as evidence of Climate Change photo credit Mtaalam
The Role of IP in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
MIPLC Alumni Association IP Round Table for July 2009
Moderator: Eliamani Laltaika
“As human activity caused the problem so too can human activity find the solution”
Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General,
World Intellectual Property Organization WIPO
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But what exactly can IP law, policy, institutions and professionals contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation? This is the main question for our IP Round Table (Round Blog!?) for this month. Other cross cutting issues can also be raised.
Kindly share your thoughts and insights with fellow Alumni, faculty and friends. Click "Add comments" bellow
THANK YOU!
Monday, 6 July 2009
What is IP Roundtable?
I.P. Roundtable
Hosted by the MIPLC Alumni Association — All MIPLC Students, Alumni & Friends are Welcome!!
The IP Roundtable dinners, hosted by the MIPLC Alumni Association, take place around an actual round table — in the "Kutschenstube" at the Spatenhaus restaurant (opposite the plaza at the Bavarian State Opera, near the corner of Maximillianstraße and Rezidenzstraße), just a few minutes walk from MIPLC. The address is: Spatenhaus an der Oper, Rezidenzstraße 12, München 80333. When you get there, just ask for the Kutschenstube, which has been reserved just for us. The appetizers for our conversations include good food and drink — but, most of all, the good company of MIPLC friends!
The format of our IP Roundtable dinners is that we start at 6.00pm by relaxing together with drinks, dinner (well, at least the first course!) and informal chatting. After a short while the leader for the evening commences the topical discussion with an informal and short (15 minutes) "appetizer" talk to get our minds focused on the chosen theme. We then continue with a round-table conversation, centered on the theme of the evening, and continue for as long as we are still enjoying the conversation (nourished by additional beverages and victuals, if necessary). While our conversations are intended to be intellectually stimulating, they are very informal and convivial ... and usually also quite fun.
Our previous IP Roundtable conversations have addressed the following topics:
-The Patent Troll - Friend or Foe? Kelvin Willoughby
-"It's a rich man's world! ... but what about intellectual property?" Mrinalini Kochupillai
- What is the optimum term for copyright and patents? Arguments from economics (Zecharias Fassil Berhe)
- Intellectual property and culture (Mario Cisneros)
- Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property (Pallavi Kondapalli)
- The case against intellectual property (Meital Werner)
- Patents as monopolies: Problems and solutions (Heeseob Nam)
- When should the exception become the rule?
Copyright, competition and consumers in the world of digital entertainment (Kelvin Willoughby)
- The emergence of TRIPs-Plus bilateral agreements (Sergio Velasquez)
- The politics of TRIPs and the Doha declarations (Heeseob Nam)
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Email address for inquiries: board@alumni-miplc.de Web site: www.alumni-miplc.de LIVE discussions at www.miplcalumni.blogspot.com
COPYRIGHT MIPLC Alumni Association 2009
Hosted by the MIPLC Alumni Association — All MIPLC Students, Alumni & Friends are Welcome!!
The IP Roundtable dinners, hosted by the MIPLC Alumni Association, take place around an actual round table — in the "Kutschenstube" at the Spatenhaus restaurant (opposite the plaza at the Bavarian State Opera, near the corner of Maximillianstraße and Rezidenzstraße), just a few minutes walk from MIPLC. The address is: Spatenhaus an der Oper, Rezidenzstraße 12, München 80333. When you get there, just ask for the Kutschenstube, which has been reserved just for us. The appetizers for our conversations include good food and drink — but, most of all, the good company of MIPLC friends!
The format of our IP Roundtable dinners is that we start at 6.00pm by relaxing together with drinks, dinner (well, at least the first course!) and informal chatting. After a short while the leader for the evening commences the topical discussion with an informal and short (15 minutes) "appetizer" talk to get our minds focused on the chosen theme. We then continue with a round-table conversation, centered on the theme of the evening, and continue for as long as we are still enjoying the conversation (nourished by additional beverages and victuals, if necessary). While our conversations are intended to be intellectually stimulating, they are very informal and convivial ... and usually also quite fun.
Our previous IP Roundtable conversations have addressed the following topics:
-The Patent Troll - Friend or Foe? Kelvin Willoughby
-"It's a rich man's world! ... but what about intellectual property?" Mrinalini Kochupillai
- What is the optimum term for copyright and patents? Arguments from economics (Zecharias Fassil Berhe)
- Intellectual property and culture (Mario Cisneros)
- Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property (Pallavi Kondapalli)
- The case against intellectual property (Meital Werner)
- Patents as monopolies: Problems and solutions (Heeseob Nam)
- When should the exception become the rule?
Copyright, competition and consumers in the world of digital entertainment (Kelvin Willoughby)
- The emergence of TRIPs-Plus bilateral agreements (Sergio Velasquez)
- The politics of TRIPs and the Doha declarations (Heeseob Nam)
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Email address for inquiries: board@alumni-miplc.de Web site: www.alumni-miplc.de LIVE discussions at www.miplcalumni.blogspot.com
COPYRIGHT MIPLC Alumni Association 2009
Saturday, 4 July 2009
General Assembly 2009 Part III
Agnieszka Ignaczak, Vice President and Editor of Alumni Newsletter on New strategies for alumni networking
General Assembly 2009 Part I
Opening Speech by Eliamani Laltaika, President of the MIPLC Alumni Association
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
How Many gTLDs do we need?
The Future Laboratory and the domain registrar Gandi.net asked 1,000 people what they thought of the liberalisation of web domains - 65% of people said they think it will litter the internet with pointless domain names, 60% didn't think it would improve their internet experience ad 46% think it will make things too complicated.
The range of domain names is only as limited as the imagination of the people who order them, but many possibilities bring their own challenges. It will be a powerful tool for brands - the Guardian could have the .guardian domain, Nike could register.nike and the Eiffel Tower could register .eiffel. All they will need is $185,000 when the domains go on sale early next year.
The Future Lab report raises some interesting issues about domains that could be contested. Who should decide which organisation has control of .god, for example? Would it be better if a group of atheists bought the domain? The Vatican has already written to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) warning that religion-themed domains could trigger "bitter disputes". What if .war was taken over by anti-war protestors, or by a party on one side of a conflict? What if just one brand bought up .beer? If there are battles over simultaneous applications, who will decide which is successful?
At the moment, applications will be overseen by ICANN, but the survey showed that only 18% of individuals think the US-based organisation should be in charge. The same percentage think web hosting firms should be in charge, 13% think the government would be better and 10% think it should be left to society to sort out. Future Lab's Tom Savigar said it's not clear who is in charge. "As a result, the liberalisation of domain names, which is meant to encourage greater choice and diversity, is seen instead as being a daunting change to the internet."
A separate report ICANN commissioned from University of Chicago economics professor Dennis Carlton pooh poohs the suggestion that trademark owners might battle over domains because of new ICANN registration procedures.
"Given ICANN's ability and incentive to modify existing procedures and adopt new ones that protect registrants' property rights, it would be a mistake at this time to address this concern through the draconian remedy of a ban on all new TLDs," he concluded, responding in part to the concerns of European Commissioner Viviane Reding, who said domains should be overseen by a separate judicial body less focused on the US.
Gandi.net's chief operating officer Joe White said the new domains are an opportunity to clear up the web. "In the past, it's been a bit like the Wild West, but the line between our on and offline worlds is blurring and there needs to be greater transparency. ICANN now has the opportunity to set clear guidelines and enforce a higher standard of practice with new TLDs so they are not littered with spam and faulty extensions."
The price tag will be the biggest barrier to smaller firms, which could lose out. But ICANN already expects as many as 500 applications at the start of 2010, so it is something of a domain gold rush.
Source www.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jun/09/internet-digital-media
The range of domain names is only as limited as the imagination of the people who order them, but many possibilities bring their own challenges. It will be a powerful tool for brands - the Guardian could have the .guardian domain, Nike could register.nike and the Eiffel Tower could register .eiffel. All they will need is $185,000 when the domains go on sale early next year.
The Future Lab report raises some interesting issues about domains that could be contested. Who should decide which organisation has control of .god, for example? Would it be better if a group of atheists bought the domain? The Vatican has already written to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) warning that religion-themed domains could trigger "bitter disputes". What if .war was taken over by anti-war protestors, or by a party on one side of a conflict? What if just one brand bought up .beer? If there are battles over simultaneous applications, who will decide which is successful?
At the moment, applications will be overseen by ICANN, but the survey showed that only 18% of individuals think the US-based organisation should be in charge. The same percentage think web hosting firms should be in charge, 13% think the government would be better and 10% think it should be left to society to sort out. Future Lab's Tom Savigar said it's not clear who is in charge. "As a result, the liberalisation of domain names, which is meant to encourage greater choice and diversity, is seen instead as being a daunting change to the internet."
A separate report ICANN commissioned from University of Chicago economics professor Dennis Carlton pooh poohs the suggestion that trademark owners might battle over domains because of new ICANN registration procedures.
"Given ICANN's ability and incentive to modify existing procedures and adopt new ones that protect registrants' property rights, it would be a mistake at this time to address this concern through the draconian remedy of a ban on all new TLDs," he concluded, responding in part to the concerns of European Commissioner Viviane Reding, who said domains should be overseen by a separate judicial body less focused on the US.
Gandi.net's chief operating officer Joe White said the new domains are an opportunity to clear up the web. "In the past, it's been a bit like the Wild West, but the line between our on and offline worlds is blurring and there needs to be greater transparency. ICANN now has the opportunity to set clear guidelines and enforce a higher standard of practice with new TLDs so they are not littered with spam and faulty extensions."
The price tag will be the biggest barrier to smaller firms, which could lose out. But ICANN already expects as many as 500 applications at the start of 2010, so it is something of a domain gold rush.
Source www.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/jun/09/internet-digital-media
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Official Launching of the MIPLC Alumni Blog
Official Launching of the MIPLC Alumni Blog
I, Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, former Programme Director of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre MIPLC Hereby declare this blog officially LAUNCHED!
Munich, 16th May 2009
I, Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, former Programme Director of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Centre MIPLC Hereby declare this blog officially LAUNCHED!
Munich, 16th May 2009
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