Wednesday, August 15, 2012

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

Friday, August 10, 2012

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

Thursday, August 02, 2012

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

Monday, July 30, 2012

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

EU Commission sends Statement of Objections on perindopril to Servier and others

Press Release, here

US and EU blocking treaty to give blind people access to books

Guardian.co.uk, here

The uncertain economics of lending virtual books

The Economist, here

It Was Never a Universal Library: Three Years of the Google Book Settlement

W. Crawford, here

Friday, July 27, 2012

The European Commission's Closer Look on the Pharmaceutical Sector - New Development on the Interface between IP and Antitrust Law

S. Baier, here

Civil Society statement on Exceptions and Limitations for Education

WIPO 24th SCCR, here

The Role of the Intellectual Property Office

UK IPO, here

Online Software Piracy

The Economist, here

A Comparative Look at Foreign State Compulsion as a Defence in Antitrust Litigation

M. Martyniszyn, here

Higher Education Institutions and EU Competition Law

A. Gideon, here

Blinde müssen weiter für Urheberrechtsausnahmen kämpfen

Heise.de, hier

Cloud Computing: An Overview of the Technology and the Issues facing American Innovators


U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet, here.

Google and Antitrust

R. Picker,  Presentation here

Exclusivity in High-Tech Industries: Evidence from the French Case

P. Bougette, F. Marty, J. Pillot, P. Reis, here

Copyright, Free Speech, and the Public's Right to Know: How Journalists Think about Fair Use

P. Aufderheide and P. Jaszi, here