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A recent article on Retraction Watch tells the story of Svein Åge K. Johnsen and Ingeborg Olsdatter Busterud Flagstad, two researchers from the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. For over a year, the pair have been trying to publish a paper about green entrepreneurship, focusing on “small-scale Norwegian manufacturing companies.” In January 2021, the pair submitted it to the International Small Business Journal , a SAGE journal.
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By providing a massive library of scientific and academic publications for free, Sci-Hub and Libgen have achieved a somewhat unique status in the ‘pirate’ market. On the one hand, the platforms freely spread knowledge and education, two of the most valuable commodities for those seeking a more enlightened and progressive global community.
This Kat dreams (or has nightmares) of anti-suit injunctions The EU is eager to promote innovation and growth in a digital age, but whose? This is the question one might reasonably ask on learning of the EU's launch of a complaint at the WTO against China last Friday, 18 February 2022. The substance of the complaint is the allegation that Chinese courts are obstacles to European companies' legitimate enforcement of telecom patents on technologies such as 3G, 4G, and 5G through the use of anti-su
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The following is an edited transcript of my video How NOT to Protect Your Trademark. Having recorded dozens of episodes on how best to protect a brand and a trademark, I thought it would be fun to share my tips on how not to protect your trademark (sarcastically, of course). If you don’t care about your brand, you aren’t worried about getting sued, that it might cost you a fortune or be emotionally exhausting to change your name, then don’t worry about picking a unique or creat
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Women and diverse employees have the technical skill and knowledge, yet their contributions are not patented at the same rate as those of their male counterparts.This toolkit can help organizations move the needle on achieving gender parity in innovation.
We’re pleased to inform you that Centre for Intellectual Property Studies, National Law University, Jodhpur is is inviting submissions from law students for the ‘NLUJ CIPS Inter College IP Research Essay Writing Competition, 2022’ on the theme ‘“IP and Youth: Innovating for a better future’. The deadline for submissions is 10th March, 2022.
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Well, here we are again. Fair Use Week. Ninth annual. I still don’t know why this doctrine in copyright law should be observed on the calendar, let alone for a whole week carved out of Black History Month. But in 2013, some anti-copyright ideologues thought it should be a thing, so now it’s a thing. […]. The post Fair Use Week: A Salute (of sorts) to Lenz v.
Request for Submissions Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum June 9-10, 2022, Harvard Law School Harvard, Yale, and Stanford Law Schools are soliciting submissions for the 22nd session of the Harvard/Yale/Stanford Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at Harvard Law School on June 9-10, 2022. Twelve to twenty junior scholars (with one to seven years in teaching) will be chosen, through a double-blind selection process, to present their work at the Forum.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC) today revealed its 2022 International IP Index, “Compete for Tomorrow,” which is now in its tenth edition. Last year, the report focused on the role of effective intellectual property (IP) frameworks in helping economies to combat and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and identified several emerging economies that had made significant improvements.
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The advent of distributed ledger technology has ushered in a new digital era – a decentralized internet, neither owned nor controlled by a central authority. While blockchain enthusiasts hail this lack of centralization as representing a new chapter of freedom and individual empowerment, the punchline for brands is that the absence of adjudicating bodies and authorities also brings an abundance of uncertainty, risk, and discomfort.
Photo by Charles Fair ( Unsplash ). Emily Chow is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. . Over the past few years, there has been a rise of copyright strikes purporting to moderate infringing content on YouTube. Although this may protect copyright holders such as musicians and artists, its potential for misuse can frustrate efforts to hold people and institutions accountable , as is the case here.
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Every year the US Trade Representative publishes a new update of its Special 301 Report , highlighting countries that fail to live up to U.S copyright protection standards. The annual overview is meant to motivate foreign governments to improve policy and legislation in favor of US copyright holders. This year’s list will be published in a few weeks.
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Patent claim limitations that are “negative”—that is, claim limitations specifying the absence of a particular element from the patent claim—can pose a dilemma in the written description context. How much of the specification should be devoted to something that is not supposed to be part of the claim?
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