scholarly journals Contract Law and Intellectual Property Transactions: Research Perspectives

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Jacques de Werra
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
New Research ◽  
Ip Law

Contract law is a key component of the intellectual property (IP) ecosystem: contracts are the legal vehicles by which IP rights can be lawfully used by third parties. Contracts are the essential tools by which IP owners can monetize their rights. Making sure that contract law can perform these critical missions requires understanding the complex interactions between IP law and contract law. Analysing these interactions is obviously not a new research venture. However, there are still many areas that call for further research and scientific activity. Exploring the interactions between IP and contract law is not only scientifically relevant, but it also has a high practical significance because of the uncertainty surrounding certain legal issues arising in (international) IP transactions which generate high transaction costs. The interactions between IP and contracts are multifaceted and raise numerous methodological challenges and doctrinal questions. This short piece will focus on a few of them (obviously without claiming to be exhaustive). These legal issues can be classified into two categories on which the article will focus and which depend on whether these issues relate to the internal relationship between the parties to an IP transaction or whether they affect external third parties.

Touchy-Feely History: The ‘Stuff’ of American Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
New Research

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.

Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties in Japan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masami Okino
Keyword(s):  
Case Analysis ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Civil Code ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Third Party ◽  
German Model ◽  
Recent Debate ◽  
The Law

This chapter discusses the law on third party beneficiaries in Japan; mostly characterized by adherence to the German model that still bears an imprint on Japanese contract law. Thus, there is neither a doctrine of consideration nor any other justification for a general doctrine of privity, and contracts for the benefit of third parties are generally enforceable as a matter of course. Whether an enforceable right on the part of a third party is created is simply a matter of interpretation of the contract which is always made on a case-by-case analysis but there are a number of typical scenarios where the courts normally find the existence (or non-existence) of a contract for the benefit of a third party. In the recent debate on reform of Japanese contract law, wide-ranging suggestions were made for revision of the provisions on contracts for the benefit of third parties in the Japanese Civil Code. However, it turned out that reform in this area was confined to a very limited codification of established case law.

scholarly journals Felid Cardiopulmonary Nematodes: Dilemmas Solved and New Questions Posed

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Donato Traversa ◽  
Simone Morelli ◽  
Angela Di Cesare ◽  
Anastasia Diakou
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
New Research ◽  
Alternative Routes ◽  
Applied Knowledge

In the past decade cardiopulmonary nematodes affecting felids have become a core research topic in small animal parasitology. In the late 2000s, an increase in studies was followed by unexpected findings in the early 2010s, which have stimulated research teams to start investigating these intriguing parasites. Prolific scientific debate and exchanges have then fostered field and laboratory studies and epi-zootiological surveys. New data have improved basic and applied knowledge, solved dilemmas and posed new questions. This article discusses the past and present background to felid cardiopulmonary nematodes after the last few years of intense scientific research. New data which have demonstrated the key role of Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior in causing respiratory infections in domestic cats, and on the nil to negligible current importance of other species, i.e., Troglostrongylus subcrenatus, Oslerus rostratus and Angiostrongylus chabaudi, are presented. Biological information and hypothesized alternative routes of infection are analysed and discussed. Novel identification and taxonomical data and issues are reported and commented upon. On the whole, recent biological, ecological and epi-zootiological information on felid meta-strongyloids is critically analysed, with the aim to answer outstanding questions, stimulate future studies, and underline new research perspectives.

La (des)protección de la propiedad intelectual de las obras del poder público

2017 ◽  
pp. 199-232
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Ureña Salcedo
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Public Power

LABURPENA: Lan honen hasieran, jabetza intelektualaren arauek botere publikoaren erabilerari (izan botere legegilea, betearazlea nahiz judiziala) lotutako obrei ematen dioten babesgabetasuna aztertzen da. Babesgabetasun hori XXIi. Mendean azkenean ezarri behar den gardentasun publikoari ezin hobeto lotuta dago. Informazio publikoa eskuratzeari eta hura berrerabiltzeari buruzko lege batzuen arabera, ordea, jabetza intelektualaren eskubideak egotea muga bat izan daiteke bai hura eskuratzeko bai berrerabiltzeko. Azterlan honetan lege-irtenbide horren aurkako argudioak ematen dira. Bestalde, jabetza intelektualaren eskubideen titulartasuna lan egiten den administrazioari dagokiola defendatzen eta argudiatzen da hemen (hirugarrenen sarbide hori erraztu behar luke horrek). RESUMEN: Comienza este trabajo con un análisis sobre la desprotección por las normas de propiedad intelectual de las obras vinculadas al ejercicio del poder público (ya sea el Legislativo, el Ejecutivo o el Judicial). Esta desprotección liga perfectamente con la transparencia pública, que tiene que acabar imponiéndose en el s. XXI. Algunas leyes de acceso a la información pública y de reutilización de la misma, sin embargo, apuntan que la existencia de derechos de propiedad intelectual puede constituir un límite tanto para el acceso como para la reutilización. En este estudio se aportan argumentos en contra de esta solución legal. Aquí se sostiene y se fundamenta, además, que la titularidad de los derechos de propiedad intelectual corresponde a la Administración para la que se trabaja (lo que debería facilitar dicho acceso por terceros). ABSTRACT: This work begins with an analysis about the vulnerability provoked by the intellectual property rules regarding works linked to the exercise of public power (either the legislative, the executive or the judiciary). This vulnerability connects perfectly with public transparency, which eventually has to be imposed in the XXI century. Nevertheless, some Acts on access to public information and its re-use indicate that the existence of intellectual property rights can be a limit both for the access and re-use. This study provides arguments against this legal solution. It is argued and justified, besides, that the ownership of intellectual property rights belongs to the Administration to whom someone works (which should facilitate that access by third parties).

Signed, Sealed, but not Delivered: The EU and the Ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 629-632
Author(s):  
Ana Ramalho
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Risk Regulation ◽  
Inside View ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Ip Law ◽  
Crossing Point ◽  
Marrakesh Treaty ◽  
The Eu

This section is devoted to giving readers an inside view of the crossing point between intellectual property (IP) law and risk regulation. In addition to updating readers on the latest developments in IP law and policies in technological fields (including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture and foodstuffs), the section aims at verifying whether such laws and policies really stimulate scientific and technical progress and are capable of minimising the risks posed by on-going industrial developments to individuals’ health and safety, inter alia.

Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Fertner ◽  
Andreas Aagaard Christensen ◽  
Peter Stubkjær Andersen ◽  
Anton Stahl Olafsson ◽  
Søren Præstholm ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Practice ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
New Research ◽  
Digital Plan
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