Sharing research data by depositing it in connection with a published article or otherwise making data publicly available sometimes raises intellectual property questions in the minds of depositing researchers, their employers, their funders, and other researchers who seek to reuse research data. In this context or in the drafting of data management plans, common questions are (1) what are the ...

Over the last few decades, countries belonging to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) all had to revise their intellectual property systems. These revisions resulted at first from bilateral pressure of major trading partners such as the US and EU, then from the WTO-TRIPS Agreement and more recently from bilateral Free Trade Agreements. To observe the IP developments in ASEAN over...

introduction: anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (acta) is a plurilateral agreement among industrialized countries including usa. top industrialized countries and in particular usa always tried to have complete control over world trade organization (wto). although they had many success for their purpose, they are not convinced about the wto functions and they can not tolerate critiques of thei...

Though I don’t expect much sympathy, Linux does nothing for me. Sure, it offers many technical advantages, and you can’t beat the price, but it provides practically no opportunities for litigation— how can you sue others for software piracy when the software is given away in the first place? As an intellectual-property lawyer, I’d have to look for another line of work if everyone gave their pro...

This paper presents REAP, a system for rights management in digital libraries. REAP is aimed at demonstrating that intellectual property can be published in the Internet by digital libraries in accordance with copyright laws. The article proposes an architecture/paradigm for managing rights when publishing information through Digital Libraries involving digital rights management. Based on this ...

With the lightning-fast pace of technological advancements, scientific as well medical innovation that we are witnessing in modern world, intellectual property has increasingly taken on role playing a vital role. In addition, shifts global economic environment have had an impact evolution business models which plays central determining value and potential for growth. To fulfil its international...

at a superficial level it seems that owning a monopolistic right is in contrast with competitiveness of the market, and exercising this right will prevent the free trade from being competitive. but the truth is that the existence of monopoly is not always a violation of competition law to be harmful to the trade, quite the reverse, in some cases it interacts with principles of competition law, ...

INTRODUCTION.............................................................................336 I. THE DOCTRINAL DIMENSION ....................................................336 II. THE NORMATIVE DIMENSION...................................................342 A. On Becoming Marks .......................................................343 B. Distinctiveness Versus Functionality ......................

Article history: Received 10 September 2012 Received in revised form 19 March 2013 Accepted 5 April 2013 Available online xxxx This paper analyzes firms' decisions to seek intellectual property rights in global markets, particularly in China.We introduce the notion of a ‘quadic patent,’ defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications filed at the European Patent Office, the Japa...

Massive piracy and counterfeiting has been the subject of a perennial dispute between China and the United States. Although China‘s accession to the World Trade Organization (―WTO‖) has provided the United States with a new weapon in its arsenal—the mandatory dispute settlement process—the recent panel decision on China—Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property ...