Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The US Goverment's position on Bilski
The Court of First Instance on the distinctive character of a mark
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Neelie Kroes on issues round EU state aid control system
Friday, September 25, 2009
Google Book Settlement:Amendment Ahead
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Advocate General on AdWords and Trademarks
Monday, September 21, 2009
Salame Felino and the European Court of Justice
Friday, September 18, 2009
Defining "noncommercial" uses in copyright
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Google Book Settlement: Competition and Commerce in Digital Books
Monday, September 14, 2009
Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung geistigen Eigentums und dessen Schutzes mit Fokus auf den Mittelstand
SMEs and IP in Switzerland
Spanish Copyright Collecting Society Fined for Abuse of Dominant Position
Pressefusionskontrolle: Anwendung der Abwägungsklausel
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Europeana and Copyright: A Common Solution for Europe's Digital Library?
"However, the substantial progress made with Europeana also brings to the surface the challenges and problems linked to the digitisation process. At the moment, Europeana includes mainly digitised books which are in the public domain and are thus no longer protected by copyright law (which extends to 70 years after the death of the author).
For the moment, Europeana includes, for legal reasons, neither out-of print works (some 90% of the books in Europe's national libraries), nor orphan works (estimated at 10 – 20% of in-copyright collections) which are still in copyright but where the author cannot be identified.
Europeana also shows that licensing of copyright-protected material in Europe still takes place under a very fragmented legal framework. Earlier this year a French aggregator had to withdraw photographs from Europeana, since it only had the right to disseminate the material on French territory".
A public consultation on these very controversial topics has been launched.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Mario Monti on International Competition/Antitrust Convergence and Enforcement in Troubled Times
F. M. Scherer on Patent Policy: Some Recommendations for Competition Authorities
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
EC 2008 Report on Competition Policy Released
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
Patent Law and Standards Setting
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Vertical Restraints in the EU: Future Policy Framework under Discussion
Friday, July 24, 2009
EU competition policy for the motor vehicle sector
Public views on copyright policy
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
European Court of Justice on "temporary and transient reproductions"
Friday, June 26, 2009
IP and competition law
"The European Microsoft judgment has therefore left unclear when a dominant firm with IP rights must share them with rivals. Following the judgment, the answer in Europe appears to be: by no means as exceptionally as previously thought. In some ways it is regrettable that Microsoft did not appeal to the European Court of Justice, which might usefully have clarified if not tightened the law".
Thursday, June 25, 2009
On essential facilities and refusals to deal
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Michael Geist has some "visions" for Canada's Copyright Law
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A. Zerdiashvili, here .
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Please let me know if you have any feedback, here (soon on Arxiv).
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V. Robertson, J. Fleiss, here .
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Axios, here .
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M. Mazzucato, F. Gernone, here (and here ).
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C. Caffarra, here .
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MIT, here .
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TechCrunch, here .