Gesetzliche Verankerung der Netzneutralität in Österreich?

Blog.lehofer.at, hier. 

‘European Square’ iZettle Now Works With Android; Visa Europe Dispute Drags On

Techcrunch.com, here. 

Android Litigation Update

Techrights.org, here. 

2012 EU Survey on R&D Investment Business Trends

Here.

From the Report, p. 12:
"For some sectors, the expected R&D investment changes of the respondents are higher than the growth rates observed in the past (both for the responding companies and the whole sector):  software & computer services (11% p.a. over the next three years), general industrials (6.8%), automobiles & parts (6.0%),
chemicals (5.5%), oil & gas producers (4.6%), aerospace & defence (4.1%), construction & materials (3.8%), technology hardware & equipment (3.5%), and fixed line telecommunications (2.6%).For a few other sectors,
the expected changes are lower than the past growth rates (both for the responding companies and the whole sector): electricity (4.6% p.a. over the next three years) and pharmaceuticals & biotechnology (3.2%)." (emphasis added).

Can this really be true? Patents for TV programme formats ...

Tht IPKat, here. 

Bundeskartellamt verhängt Bußgeld gegen TTS Tooltechnic wegen vertikaler Preisbindung

Pressemitteilung, hier. 

Judge Asks Google to Supplement Its List of Any Paid Folks

Groklaw, here. 

The Impact of Free Music Downloads on the Purchase of Music CDs in Canada

G. Barker, T. Maloney, here. 

Legal Challenge To ICM Registry’s and ICANN’s .XXX gTLD Continues – What Are The Implications For Other gTLD Applicants?

Jdsupra.com, here. 

Replies to Questionnaire on Exceptions and Limitations to Patent Rights

WIPO, here. 

Search, Essential Facilities, and the Antitrust Duty to Deal

M. Lao, here. 

Copyright and the Digital Economy

Australian Law Reform Commission, Issues Paper, here.
Questions, among other hot topics, on cloud computing (p. 26 ff.), transformative use (p. 36 ff.), data and text mining (p. 48 ff.), a broad fair use exception (p. 71 ff.), and contracting out of copyright exceptions (p. 79 ff.).

Oracle v. Google: Disclosure of Financial Relationships with Commentators

Oracle's here; Google's here. 

Revised Working Document on an International Instrument on Limitations and Exceptions for Visually Impaired Persons/Persons with Print Disabilities

WIPO SCCR/24/9, here. 

Provisional Working Document towards an Appropriate International Legal Instrument (in whatever form) on Limitations and Exceptions for Educational, Teaching and Research Institutions and Persons with other Disabilities containing Comments and Textual Suggestions

WIPO SCCR/24/8 PROV, here. 

Twitter dictates third-party app form and function in new API, gives six months to comply

Theverge.com, here. 

Apple's memorandum of law in opposition to the E-book settlement

Here. 

The Economic Contribution of Australia's Copyright Industries

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), here. 

INTEROPERABILITY AND REGULATION IN THE TECHNOLOGY MARKET: A COMPETITION ANALYSIS

SHUBHNEET INDERJIT KAUR, Competition Commission of India, here. 

Should antitrust law enjoin injunctions on standard essential patents?

M. Dolmans, Presentation here. 

Lemley on Patent Wars in the Smart Phone Industry

People In the Know (China), Audio here. 

Anti-Competitive Stumbling Stones on the Way to a Cleaner World: Protecting Competition in Innovation without a Market

J. Drexl, here. 

AKTUELLE FRAGEN DER GEODATEN-NUTZUNG AUF MOBILEN GERÄTEN

INSTITUT FÜR TECHNIKFOLGEN-ABSCHÄTZUNG  DER ÖSTERREICHISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN, hier.

Software Becomes that Much Harder to Patent in the United States

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

A Very Short Primer on Design Patents and Trade Dress

M. Risch, here. 

Cloud Legal Guidelines

Optimis ("the cloud's silver lining"), Part I here, Part II here. 

Mapping Cloud Interoperability in the Globalized Economy: Theory and Observations from Practice

U. Gasser and J. Palfrey, here. 

Third Circuit Provides Friendly Environment for FTC and Plaintiffs Challenging Certain Patent Litigation Settlements

J. Levine, here. 

The Extraordinary Deterrence of Private Antitrust Enforcement: A Reply to Werden, Hammond, and Barnett

R. Lande, J. Davis, here. 

Wie die Verlage für das Leistungsschutzrecht kämpfen

Stefan-niggemeier.de, hier. 

Consultazione pubblica sul regolamento istruttorio in materia di rating di legalità

Qui, bozza del regolamento qui. 

Intellectual Property Protection for Computer Programs

RM Ballardini, here. 

The Right to Data Portability: Privacy and Antitrust Analysis

P. Swire, Presentation here. 

THE UNEASY CASE AGAINST COPYRIGHT TROLLS

S. Balganesh, here. 

Reforming Patents

C. Chien, here. 

Branding Privacy

P. Ohm, here. 

The Giants Among Us

T. Ewing, R. Feldman, here. 

AMERICA’S FIRST PATENTS

M. Risch, here. 

Google to begin punishing pirate sites in search results

Theverge.com, here. 

La licence globale négociée jusqu'à fin 2013 en Suisse

Numerama, ici.

Review Essay: New Perspectives on International Antitrust

M. Gal, here. 

University of Chicago Press Partners with OUP on E-book Platform

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

Online tracking: questioning the power of informed consent

N. van Eijk, N. Helberger, L. Kool, A. van der Plas and B. van der Sloot, here. 

Google Faces Rising FTC Ire

Nationaljournal.com, here. 

Online Piracy: Challenging the 'three strikes' approach

Nakedsecurity.sophos.com, here. 

Is consumer welfare the (only) way forward? A re-appreciation of competition law objectives ante portas in both US and EU

A. Skourtis, kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here. 

Sharing site of legally purchased ebooks shuts down

Eff.org, here. 

Urheberrechtsrevision in der Schweiz: Arbeitsgruppe eingesetzt

Eidgenössisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartement, hier. 

GRUPPO FS HA ABUSATO DELLA PROPRIA POSIZIONE DOMINANTE PER OSTACOLARE L’INGRESSO DELLA SOCIETA’ ARENAWAYS NEL TRASPORTO FERROVIARIO PASSEGGERI

Provvedimento A436, qui. Comunicato stampa, qui. 

Solving the Patent Settlement Puzzle

E. Elhauge, here. 

Datenschutz: Googles gnädige Kontrolleure

Spiegel.de, hier. 

Mobile Phones: Copying the Copier

The Economist, here. 

Verdict Overturned in Favor of Research In Motion in Mformation Patent Case

Marketwire.com, here. 

The Shield Act fails to protect free software from patents

Free Software Foundation, here. 

Sieben Thesen zum Leistungsschutzrecht: Eine Stellungnahme zum zweiten Referentenentwurf

T. Kreutzer, hier.

usedSoft GmbH v. Oracle: Are You Exhausted Yet?

R. Picker, here. 

BMJ gibt Referentenentwurf zur Verlängerung der Schutzdauer für Tonaufnahmen bekannt

Urheberrecht.org, hier. 

FTC's advisory opinion on the "Accelerated Recovery Initiative"

Here. 

TaylorWessing on the Electrifying Season of UK Copyright Reforms

Here. 

Das Leistungsschutzrecht und die Wissenschaft

Stifterverband.info, hier.

MoU between the IPO and the OFT

Here.

Lemley's Oral Argument in Accenture Global v. Guidewire (software patentable subject matter)

Audio, here. 

Google records show book scanning was aimed at Amazon

PaidContent, here. 

Posner's myVidster Opinion: A Victory for Innovation and a Vote for Sensible Copyright Law

Eff.org, here. 

Marrying Neo-Chicago with Behavioral Antitrust

M. Huffman, here. 

NBC's Olympic coverage has been a damning indictment of outdated monopoly media

Telegraph.co.uk, here. 

EESC on the proposed Regulation on Data Protection

European Economic and Social Committee, here. 

Leak of TPP text on copyright Limitations and Exceptions

Keionline.org, here. 

Pirate Parties on Track to Join WIPO as Observers

Torrentfreak.com, here. 

Diritto d'autore e ricerca scientifica: prove di dialogo per la crescita

S. Vezzoso (autrice di questo blog), Preprint qui. 

Aurélie Filippetti : "Je vais réduire les crédits de l'Hadopi"

Obsession.nouvelobs.com, ici. 

Intellectual Property and Implementation of Recent Bilateral Trade Agreements in the EU

J. Drexl, here. 

U.S. representatives take on patent trolls with SHIELD Act

News.cnet.com, here. 

Richard Posner Gets It Wrong

R. Epstein, here. 

The Globalization of Antitrust and Competition Law

E. Engle, here. 

Public Statement on the U.S. Proposal for a Limitations and Exceptions Clause in the Trans-Pacific Partnership

P. Jaszi, M. Carroll and S. Flynn, here. 

UK copyright and orphan works: the facts

The BIS Blog, here. 

Eléments pour la réforme du droit d'auteur et des politiques culturelles liées

Laquadrature.net, ici. 

Grading the Professor: Evaluating Bill Kovacic’s Contributions to Antitrust Engineering

D. Sokol, C. Wilson, J. Nord, here. 

Google Book Search Case Threatens Librarians' Access to Information

Eff.org, here. 

The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma: A Modest Solution to a Grand Problem

A. Katz, here. 

Does Behavioral Economics Have a Role in Antitrust Analysis?

Book Review: Lessons from Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow, H. Singer and A. Card, here.

From the Prairie to the Ocean: More Developments in State RPM Law

M. Lindsay, here. 

Open Government Data Deutschland

J. Klessmann, P. Denker, I. Schieferdecker, S. Schulz, et al., here.

UK SCL Position on E-Book Lending in Libraries

The Society of Chief Librarians, here. 

OFT's response to the BIS consultation Private Actions in Competition Law

OFT, here. 

The Most Important Trade Agreement That We Know Nothing About

Slate.com, here. 

Kicking and screaming at WIPO: Dragging the EU and the US to the negotiating table

IP Policy Committee Blog, here. 

Competition Law Cooperation Agreement EU/Switzerland

Kluwercompetitionlawblog.com, here.

Streaming of a Live Sporting Event is not a User Right in Israel

Iposgoode.ca, here. 

Museum Policies and Art Images: Conflicting Objectives and Copyright Overreaching

K. Crews, here. 

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

M. Dulong de Rosnay and J. De Martin, here.

Copyright works - Streamlining copyright licensing for the digital age

Hooper Report, here. 

Leistungsschutzrecht bleibt Zankapfel

Heise.de, hier. 

Authors Guild, HathiTrust Submit Final Briefs in Digitization Case

Publishersweekly.com, here. 

E-Books in Libraries: A Briefing Document Developed in Preparation for a Workshop on E-Lending in Libraries

D. O'Brien, U. Gasser, J. Palfrey, here. 

Software Patents and the Return of Functional Claiming

M. Lemley, here. 

Why panning for gold may be detrimental to open access research

Guardian.co.uk, here. 

Publication of responses to UK Copyright Consultation

Here. 

Google argues fair use in Google Books case

Futureofcopyright.com, here.