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Intersection of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law with respect to Cross Licensing Agreements

IIPRD

Overview on Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law Indian IP law is primarily designed to encourage innovation and creativity by providing inventors with exclusive rights to their creations for a specified period of time. College: LC-1, Faculty of Law, Delhi University [1] The Patents Act, 1970, No.

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Book Review: Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd Edition

The IPKat

The first edition of Intellectual Property Law in China (IPLCN) was the first of a bunch of goodies this Kat enthusiastically gathered from the incomparable IP library of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (MPI).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 2 of 4: Exploitation rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Part 1 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 is available here , and parts 3 and 4 will be published on the blog over the coming days. . The BGH arrived at the same ruling as in Cordoba II in another judgment in 2019 called Testversion.

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Copyrightability of a Programming Language

Patently-O

SAS argues that it made a “plethora of creative choices” in developing its material, and that creativity is more than sufficient to satisfy the originality requirements of copyright law. Thus far, the courts have disagreed with SAS and rejected its copyright assertions. 621 (2019). 571 (2019).

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 3 of 4: Related rights and exceptions and limitations

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Parts 1 and 2 of this post (originally published in “Auteurs & Media”) summarising case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof from 2015 to 2019 are available here and here , and part 4 will be published on the blog shortly. In addition to rights of the author, German copyright law also recognises related rights.

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Generative AI and Copyright – Some Recent Denials and Unanswered Questions

Intellectual Property Law Blog

The growth of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and generative AI is moving copyright law into unprecedented territory. While US copyright law continues to develop around AI, one boundary has been set: the bedrock requirement of copyright is human authorship. Perlmutter, et.

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Can Celebrity Catchphrases be Intellectually Protected?

IIPRD

Catchphrases in Copyright and Trademark Law Copyright law guarantees artists the protection of their creative work while allowing others to expand upon it through its legislations. are generally not protected by copyright law. 541 of 2019. In Reebok India v. iii] §13, The Coyright Act, 1957. [iv]