DAMAGES RECOVERY CAUSED BY A CRIME AGAINST INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: PROCEDURAL ASPECTS

Damages and injunctions in protecting intellectual property

We investigate how liability rules and property rules protect intellectual property. Infringement might not be deterred under any of the enforcement regimes available. However, counterintuitively, a credible threat of infringement can actually benefit the patentholder. We compare the two doctrines of damages, lost profit (lost royalty) and unjust enrichment, and argue that unjust enrichment pro...

Against intellectual property, by Brian Martin

Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol. 1, No. 5, September 1996, pp. 257-270 Peter Drahos (ed.), Intellectual Property (International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory) (Aldershot, UK: Dartmouth, 1999), pp. 517-532; Richard Stallman et al., The Collection of Free Software Foundation Documents (Yunnan University Press, 2003), pp. 284-301 (in Chinese). Indymedia Romania, http://rom...

The Case Against Intellectual Property

Cochlear Damages Caused by Vibration Exposure

BACKGROUND Many industrial devices have an excessive vibration which can affect human body systems. The effect of vibration on cochlear histology has been as a debatable problem in occupational health and medicine. OBJECTIVES Due to limitation present in human studies, the research was conducted to survey the influence of vibration on cochlear histology in an animal model. MATERIALS AND MET...

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...