scholarly journals Comparative Legal Analysis and Intellectual Property Law: A Guide for Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-66
Author(s):  
Irene Calboli
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
High Level ◽  
Ip Law ◽  
Technological Integration

This chapter addresses the intersection between comparative law and intellectual property (IP) law and the role of comparative legal analysis as a research methodology for IP scholars. Due to the high level of international harmonization of IP laws, comparative legal analysis has traditionally played a prominent role for IP scholars. However, this methodology has become even more fundamental in recent decades because of the further integration of legal systems due to the process of globalization of trade and the fast-evolving worldwide technological developments. As a result of this economic and technological integration, different legal traditions have converged to an unprecedented level. In particular, after an overview of Comparative Law and the process required to conduct comparative analysis, this chapter offers several examples in the context of IP research.

1. An Introduction to Domestic and International Intellectual Property Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-35
Author(s):  
Justine Pila ◽  
Paul L.C. Torremans
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Law ◽  
European Law ◽  
Single Model ◽  
International Network ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
International Laws ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Ip Law

This chapter commences the discussion of the European law of IP by introducing the domestic and international IP systems that preceded and continue to exist alongside it. It starts with the ‘what, how, and why’ of IP law in general—what it is, how it came to be, and why it exists—and proceeds to consider European IP law as part of an international network of IP laws that, while being a product of the domestic IP laws of individual European states, nonetheless differs from those laws in three related aspects. First, unlike domestic IP laws, many international laws operate by establishing legal standards for states to implement within their own territories rather than by regulating the behaviour of those states’ citizens. Second, the need for international legal communities to accommodate the diverse values and legal traditions of their member states makes their IP laws and policies less likely to reflect a single model or justificatory theory of IP than those of individual countries. And third, a central aim of international European IP communities is to supplement or substitute domestic laws and policies with European laws and policies in pursuit of European objectives, including some that stand in tension with domestic interests, such as the abolition of territorial restrictions on the operation of IP regimes.

From Market Access to Cumulative Innovation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Kuenzler
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Step Test ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights Protection ◽  
Property Rights Protection ◽  
Production Output

This chapter argues for a reinvigorated role of the market access doctrine and references a number of important antitrust and intellectual property law decisions in which courts have given priority to market access. It finds a novel function for market access to play within antitrust and intellectual property law liability: courts that grant plaintiffs access to a defendant’s production output should refer to a three-step test under which they inquire (1) whether the inventor, through first-mover advantages, has reaped a sufficient reward such that contractual or intellectual property rights protection would no longer be required to facilitate innovation, (2) whether competitors were able to challenge the proprietary platform’s position in the market without the possibility of granting access, and (3) whether competitors seeking to benefit from market access will make use of it to facilitate the introduction of new goods rather than merely to copy the initial invention.

PERAN HAK CIPTA DALAM PEMBANGUNAN DAN KESEJAHTERAAN MASYARAKAT

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Andi Baso Ilmar M
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Legal Infrastructure

AbstrakIndonesia sebagai salah satu negara yang mengatur ketentuan Hak Kekayaan Intelektual khususnya Hak Cipta diatur dalam Undang-Undang Nomor 28 Tahun 2014 tentang Hak Cipta. Seiring dengan pesatnya perkembangan kreatifitas masyarakat dalam lingkup Hak Cipta yang memiliki nilai ekonomis dan dapat berpengaruh pada pertumbuhan ekonomi dalam masyarakat, kemudian bagaimana Hukum Kekayaan Intelektual khususnya dibidang Hak Cipta dapat meningkatkan kesadaran masyarakat sehingga dibutuhkan juga kesiapan infrastruktur hukum berupa regulasi untuk membantu perkembangan Hak Cipta di Indonesia sebagai payung hukum dari kegiatan masyarakat, serta bagaimana penagakannya. Penulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana peran kekayaan intelektual khususnya Hak Cipta dalam pembangunan demi menunjang kesejahteraan masyarakat. Seperti hasil kreatifitas masyarakat dibidang Hak Cipta yang dapat memiliki nilai ekonomis memiliki jaminan dan kepastian hukum dari pemerintah berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 28 Tahun 2014 tentang Hak Cipta.Kata Kunci: Hak Cipta, Pembangunan, Jaminan, Kepastian, Kesejahteraan. AbstractIndonesia as one of the countries that regulates the provisions of Intellectual Property Rights specifically Copyright is regulated in Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright. Along with the rapid development of community creativity in the scope of Copyright which has economic value and can affect economic growth in society, then how can Intellectual Property Law, especially in the field of Copyright, increase public awareness so that legal infrastructure readiness is also needed in the form of regulations to assist the development of Copyright in Unikom Center Indonesia as the legal umbrella for community activities, as well as how to enforce them. This writing aims to see how the role of intellectual property, especially copyright in development for the welfare of society. Such as the result of community creativity in the field of Copyright which can have economic value has legal guarantees and certainty from the government based on Law Number 28 of 2014 concerning Copyright.Keywords: Copyright, Development, Guarantee, Certainty, Prosperity.

Directions in Intellectual Property Law Research: A Linguistic Contribution

2021 ◽  
pp. 344-360
Author(s):  
Alan Durant ◽  
Jennifer Davis
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Concurrent Use ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Ip Law ◽  
Legal Meaning

The questions in intellectual property (IP) law which most directly engage language fall into several types. ‘Language’ questions may concern particular signs or stretches of language examined for their registrability as a trademark, or disputed in relation to alleged infringement of literary copyright. Other kinds of words and phrases may also create difficulty, such as the words ‘distinctive’ or ‘generic’ which describe features of, and categorize, such signs or stretches of language. Such words and phrases establish a metalanguage that overlaps with frameworks in linguistics (e.g. ‘noun’, ‘consonant’) yet differs from such frameworks both in detail and purpose. Across all IP subject areas, a further kind of language, the field’s legal terms of art, defines the intangible subject matter, doctrines, and rationales of IP law, giving specialized legal meaning to otherwise general words and phrases whose meaning in law may nevertheless be contested. Such terms remain in concurrent use beyond law, with related but different meanings, and may therefore also be problematic when relied on in policy formation and in public debate about what IP is. ‘Language’ in these and other IP contexts is not, we argue, a single, unified topic. Rather, it consists of a number of very different kinds of language use, which raise different questions and call for varied forms of analysis. This chapter describes and illustrates those specialized kinds of language use. It also discusses prominent examples of research into them by legal scholars and linguists, and highlights further topics that may be amenable to linguistic investigation. In conclusion, we explain why specialist linguistic expertise is less important in such study of than interdisciplinary, legal and linguistic collaboration.

scholarly journals The series of trademarks: theory, legislation, law enforcement

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Nataliia Myronenko
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Property Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
European Court ◽  
Ip Law

Key words: trademark, series of signs, dominant element, originality, resolution The article, based on the analysis of the doctrine of intellectual property law,legislation of Ukraine, law enforcement practice, examines the state and prospects ofproviding legal protection of a series of trademarks. To overcome the existing gap inthe legislation of Ukraine, the need to amend the Law of Ukraine «On Protection ofRights to Marks for Goods and Services» is justified. It is proposed to define «a seriesof marks as a set of trademarks belonging to one owner of interdependent rights, interconnected by the presence of the same dominant verbal, figurative or combined element,having phonetic and semantic similarity, and may also bear minor graphic differencesthat do not change the essence of the trademarks. The lack of definition ofthe term «dominant element» in the legislation is emphasized. Based on the provisionsof the philosophy and doctrine of intellectual property law, the dominant elementmeans the smallest indivisible component of the trademark, which is originaland not descriptive. Based on this, its main features are distinguished: originalityand indivisibility.It is proved that the same position of the dominant element in the structure of allsigns is necessary to create a stable image of consumers in relation to a particularproduct and its manufacturer. Examples of court decisions on recognition or refusal toprovide legal protection to trademarks are given.In the context of reforming the legislation of Ukraine in terms of its approximation toEU legislation and the development of relevant case law, which must meet Europeanstandards, the expediency of using the legal positions of such a leading democratic courtas the European Court of Justice is justified. Attention is drawn to the fact that the decisionof the ECJ is not a source of law for resolving disputes of this category by the courtsof Ukraine. At the same time, they are a source of harmonious interpretation of the nationallegislation of Ukraine in accordance with the established standards of the legalsystem of the European Union. It is proved that this conclusion is consistent with thepurpose and objectives to be solved in the country in the process of implementing the provisionsof the Association Agreement in the legislation of Ukraine. Proposals are formulatedto improve the quality of legislation in the field of IP law.

scholarly journals Kebijakan Pemerintah Dalam Perlindungan Hak Kekayaan Intelektual (HAKI) Di Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Laksminarti Laksminarti
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Intellectual Property Right ◽  
Related Aspect ◽  
Directorate General ◽  
Technological Developments

This research aims to obtain a picture of the policy in the field of intellectual property rights as well as legislation and law enforcement of intellectual Property Rights (HAKI). The increasingly high-flow of free trades that demand the higher creativity of the resulting products proved increasingly spur on the technological developments that support these needs. Along with this, it began to realize the importance of the role of intellectual Property Rights (HAKI) in supporting technological developments. This is seen from the increasingly high number of copyright, patent and trademark applications and the sufficient number of industrial design applications addressed to the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights, the Office of the jurisdiction and human rights. By using a descriptive analysis obtained the idea that the implementation of good intellectual property rights system not only requires the legislation in the field of intellectual property right but should be supported also by Administration, law enforcement and an optimal socialization program on intellectual property Rights (HAKI). The results of the research show that at this time, Indonesia has had a legal device in the field of intellectual property rights which is adequate and does not contradict the provisions as required in Agreement on Trade-Related Aspect Of Intelectual Property Rights. In principle, all rules of intellectual property rights have been prepared about the interests of the Community and by the minimum provisions as required by TRIPS approval (Agreement on Trade-Related) Aspect Of Intelectual Property Rights).

scholarly journals Which Kraft of Statutory Interpretation? A Supreme Court of Canada Trilogy on Intellectual Property Law

2008 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cameron J. Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Judicial Discretion ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Supreme Court Of Canada ◽  
Statutory Interpretation ◽  
Intellectual Property Law ◽  
Law Making

The techniques used by courts to interpret statutes can be characterized as inconsistent, and at times, excessive. Current methodologies of statutory interpretation often reflect deeply normative views about the appropriate institutional role of the legislative and judicial branches of law-making, but this characterization of the debate is misleading. Rather, the problem lies with properly discerning legislative meaning and intent in full awareness of the limitations and possibilities of statutes as communicative devices. The author suggests a new methodology of statutory interpretation, whereby courts analogize the facts before them with certain paradigm cases. This methodology serves to constrain judicial discretion and enables courts to fill gaps in legislation in connection with novel cases.

Philosophical Approaches to Intellectual Property Law Scholarship

2021 ◽  
pp. 294-304
Author(s):  
Jeremy N. Sheff
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Property Law ◽  
Technology And Culture ◽  
Applied Philosophy ◽  
System 2 ◽  
Ip Law ◽  
Special Case

Intellectual property (IP) law and philosophy is an interdisciplinary approach to scholarship that applies insights and methods from philosophy to the legal, normative, theoretical, political, and empirical questions presented by the project of organizing and regulating the creation and dissemination of knowledge, technology, and culture. In this chapter, I outline four types of IP-law-and-philosophy scholarship, focusing specifically on the discipline of analytic philosophy (with appropriate caveats about the coherence of that discipline). These modes of scholarship can be categorized as: (1) the jurisprudence of the IP system; (2) philosophical analysis of IP law; (3) applied philosophy in IP; and (4) normative theory of IP. Category (4) is obviously a special case of category (3), focusing specifically on applications of moral philosophy. Within each category, I provide illustrative examples of past scholarship and suggestions for further research.

Stuck in defensive professionalism: Undermining organizational change in an intellectual property law firm

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-133
Author(s):  
Helena Heizmann ◽  
Emmanuel A Mastio ◽  
Sumati Ahuja
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Change ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Defensive Strategies ◽  
Defensive Responses ◽  
Ip Law ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This article examines how professionals employed in professional organizations make sense of the disruption of their work. Based on a qualitative study of an Australian intellectual property (IP) law firm, we shed light on the ways in which the discursive practices of professionals may undermine change in professional organizations. We identify three defensive strategies of IP professionals (denial, regression, and projection) resulting from the inability to resolve conflicts between market-based pressures and their entrenched understandings of professional work. In doing so, we show how professionals can become ‘stuck’ in defensive responses that may further marginalize the role of professional organizations in society. These findings call into question overly deterministic, radical accounts of organizational change that do not take into account the contextual embeddedness of professional organizations.

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