Current legal trends of cyber security and intellectual property

Software Development, Intellectual Property, and IT Security

Software control and intellectual property protection in cyber-physical systems

Software control is a critical issue in cyber-physical systems (CPS): if the expected behavior of the software embedded in a single device of a CPS cannot be enforced then the behavior of the whole CPS may be in jeopardy. Thus, CPS stakeholders like having some level of control over the embedded software. Third-party demands to control the software, however, conflict with the intellectual prope...

Standards and intellectual property rights: an economic and legal perspective

The authors are concerned with the reconciliation of private rights that intellectual property rights (IPRs) represent with the public benefit deriving from properly developed technical standards. One of the key difficulties in achieving this aim is that IPRs are increasingly perceived as conflicting with other norms; in particular, the relationship between intellectual property law and competi...

Indigenous Knowledge: A Moral Reflection on Current Legal Concepts of Intellectual Property

Indigenous knowledge of underdeveloped countries or of underdeveloped peoples within developed or developing nations is a sought after commodity in today’s marketplace. These commercialisation pressures will increase in the globalised climate of the new-world economic order. Since knowledge is intangible, legal protection of intangible knowledge is minimal. However, when the knowledge is expres...

Traditional medicine and intellectual property

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...