Enforcing Patent Rights

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip W. Grubb ◽  
Peter R. Thomsen ◽  
Tom Hoxie ◽  
Gordon Wright
Keyword(s):  
Civil Procedure ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Patent Infringement ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Patent Rights ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

This chapter discusses patent law enforcement in the UK, US, Continental Europe, and Asia, first considering the rules on infringement. In the UK, for instance, patent infringement is not a crime, but a tort. Essentially, the right given by a patent is the right to sue for infringement. While this is true for all countries having an Anglo-Saxon legal system and also for many others, there are some countries in which patent infringement is a criminal offence. With regard to procedure, matters of patent law are under the sole jurisdiction of federal courts in the US. In the UK, nearly all infringement actions are heard by the courts and regulated by the Civil Procedure Rules 1998. In Continental Europe, most of the evidence is written, rather than oral, and the role of the judge is seen more as that of an investigator than that of a referee.

Culture and the popular: Introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
French Cultural Studies

This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.

scholarly journals Journalism from Above: Drones and the Media in Critical Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Jonas Harvard ◽  
Mats Hyvönen ◽  
Ingela Wadbring
Keyword(s):  
Media Production ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legal Constraints ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
Journalistic Practice

In the last decade, the development of small, remotely operated multicopters with cameras, so-called drones, has made aerial photography easily available. Consumers and institutions now use drones in a variety of ways, both for personal entertainment and professionally. The application of drones in media production and journalism is of particular interest, as it provides insight into the complex interplay between technology, the economic and legal constraints of the media market, professional cultures and audience preferences. The thematic issue <em>Journalism from Above: Drones, the Media, and the Transformation of Journalistic Practice</em> presents new research concerning the role of drones in journalism and media production. The issue brings together scholars representing a variety of approaches and perspectives. A broad selection of empirical cases from Finland, Spain, Sweden, the UK and the US form the basis of an exploration of the changing relations between the media, technology and society. The articles address topics such as: Adaption of drone technology in the newsrooms; audience preferences and reactions in a changing media landscape; the relation between journalists and public authorities who use drones; and attitudes from journalistic practitioners as well as historical and future perspectives.

scholarly journals Sports bra use, preferences and fit issues among exercising females in the US, the UK and China

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Brown ◽  
Jenny Burbage ◽  
Joanna Wakefield-Scurr
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
Activity Levels ◽  
Positive Health ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

PurposePrevious research suggests that many active females are not engaging in sports bra use, despite the positive health benefits. The aim of this study was to establish and compare sports bra use, preferences and bra fit issues for exercising females in some of the largest and most diverse global underwear markets (the US, the UK and China).Design/methodology/approachA survey covering activity levels, sports bra use and preferences, bra issues and demographics was administered via Qualtrics and completed by 3,147 physically active females (aged ≥ 18 years) from the US (n = 1,060), UK (n = 1,050) and China (n = 1,037).FindingsIn general, participants were 25–29 years, 121 to 140 pounds, 34B bra size and pre-menopausal. “I cannot find the right sports bra” was the most frequent breast barrier to exercise (25.4%). Three-quarters of women wore a sports bra during exercise, with significantly higher use in China (83.9%), compared to the UK (67.2%). A third of all participants reported sports bra shoulder straps “digging into the skin”. Sports bra preferences were: compression sports bras with a racer back, wide straps and thick straps in the US and the UK; thin straps in China and adjustable straps and underband, no wire and maximum breast coverage in the US and the UK, including nipple concealment and with padded/moulded cups.Originality/valueInformation provided on differences in sports bra use, preferences and bra issues across three major global markets could be utilised by brands and manufacturers to optimise bra marketing and fit education initiatives and inform future sports bra design and distribution strategies.

The Origins of Neoliberalism and the Role of the German State

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-33
Author(s):  
Julian Germann
Keyword(s):  
International Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
German State ◽  
The Us ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Corporate Profits ◽  
German Contribution

This chapter reviews the most prominent explanations of the global rise of neoliberalism provided within critical International Political Economy: (1) a state-centered argument, which holds that neoliberalism was imposed by the United States in a bid to reassert its global dominance; (2) a class-based argument, which sees neoliberalism as the project of globalizing elites who sought to restore their corporate profits and power; and (3) an ideational argument, which describes the rise of neoliberalism as a paradigmatic shift in economic ideas. The chapter argues that these accounts share a common bias: they pivot unduly on the Anglo-American world and are unable to capture the peculiar German contribution to the origins of neoliberalism. As a result, they misread the rise of Germany to the apex of a neoliberal Europe as a belated repetition of the same global movement spearheaded by the US and the UK.

Big Data Analytics and the Accessibility of Public Inquiries

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-230
Author(s):  
Philip Garnett ◽  
Sarah M. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Big Data Analytics ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Uk

In this chapter, Garnett and Hughes focus on the role of big data in accessing information from public inquiries. Looking at the Chelsea Manning court martial in the US and the Leveson Inquiry in the UK, they argue that the manner in which information pertaining to inquiries is made public is, at best, unsatisfactory. They propose a variety of means to make this information more accessible and hence more transparent to the public through employing big data techniques.

A Shiny Surface and a Tainted Past

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
Close Contact ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Therapeutic Window ◽  
Law Firm ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Do No Harm ◽  
The Us ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The Right

The day Erin Brockovich was driving in Reno and got hit by another driver, brought her in close contact not only with the bumper of the other car, but eventually also with the US legal system, and this would change her life completely. The day Steven Soderbergh asked Julia Roberts to play the part of Erin Brockovich in the film with the same name didn’t really change her life, one presumes, but it would show the world’s moviegoers and critics that the star and Academy Award winning actress of 1990 was really back on the right track. What is the link between these events? The answer is the element chromium. It was chromium that made law-firm clerk Brockovich start a David-against-Goliath struggle with the California energy conglomerate Pacific Gas and Electric Company, that made director Soderbergh make the blockbuster movie that gave Roberts an Oscar for best female actress in 2000 and revitalized her career. I will try not to spoil the picture for those who have not seen it, because it is well worth watching, but the fact that the good guys win in the end is probably not a surprise anyway. However, the role of chromium in this play is not at all evident. And are the good guys really the good guys? There is usually a proper amount of, and a proper place for, everything, and this includes the elements of the periodic table. The main component in steel, a material which has a role to play in this story, is iron, and while we sometimes have too low a level of this element in our bodies, too much of it will kill us. The same goes for chromium: we can’t live without it. Or so it was thought until very recently. It was supposed to help us to break down and metabolize sugars, and thus ‘chromium deficiency’ could possibly be related to diabetes. Now, while low levels seems to do no harm, there are still possibilities of a therapeutic window—that is, concentrations where it may do some good—but it does not any longer seem to be considered an essential element, although official consensus on this has not yet been proclaimed.

scholarly journals Situating Continuing Professional Development in Life Long Learning in Qatar

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vishanth Weerakkody ◽  
Mohamad Osmani ◽  
Paul Waller ◽  
Nitham Hindi ◽  
Rajab Al-Esmail
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
The Us ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Uk ◽  
High Level

<p>Continued professional development (CPD) has been at the centre of capacity building in most successful organisations in western countries over the past few decades. Specialised professions in fields such as Accounting, Finance and ICT, to name but a few, are continuously evolving, which is necessitating certain standards to be followed through registration and certification by a designated authority (e.g. ACCA). Whilst most developed countries such as the UK and the US have well established frameworks for CPD for these professions, several developing nations, including Qatar (the chosen context for this article) are only just beginning to adopt these frameworks into their local contexts. However, the unique socio-cultural settings in such countries require these frameworks to be appropriately modified before they are adopted within the respective national context. The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of CPD in Qatar through comparing the UK as a benchmark and drawing corresponding and contrasting observations to formulate a roadmap towards developing a high level framework.</p>

Can multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging predict upgrading of transrectal ultrasound biopsy results at more definitive histology?11Mohamed Abd-Alazeez receives funding from the Egyptian government. Mark Emberton and Hashim U. Ahmed receive funding from USHIFU and Advanced Medical Diagnostics for clinical trials. Mark Emberton is a paid consultant for Steba Biotech, USHIFU and Sanofi-Aventis. Mark Emberton has received research support by GSK for a study evaluating the role of MRI in men with prostate cancer. Mark Emberton and Hashim Ahmed have previously received medical consultancy fees from GE Healthcare/Oncura and Hashim Ahmed previously from Steba Biotech. Mark Emberton is a medical director of Mediwatch PLC. Hashim Uddin Ahmed and Mark Emberton receive funding from the Medical Research Council, the NIHR-HTA, NIHR-i4i, the US NIH/NCI, Pelican Cancer Foundation, Prostate Cancer UK, and St Peter׳s Trust. This work was part funded by research support for Mark Emberton and Alex Kirkham from the UK National Institute of Health Research UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK.

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Abd-Alazeez ◽  
Hashim U. Ahmed ◽  
Manit Arya ◽  
Clare Allen ◽  
Nikolaos Dikaios ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prostate Cancer ◽  
Medical Research Council ◽  
Transrectal Ultrasound ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Research Support ◽  
The Us ◽  
Egyptian Government ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Translation, Copyright & Authority

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Change ◽  
Critical Point ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right

Abstract The UK copyright law regime presents the right to adapt as the sole, authoritative instrument in matters of legitimising translation; a legal “Big Other” conferring an otherwise unreal objective commodity status on what are instead always only ever individual and subjective acts of translation. Drawing primarily on the work of Theo Hermans, and the experiences of poet Jack Underwood in unsuccessfully attempting to formally translate poems by Mascha Kaléko, this article argues for (a) the development and (at the very least) implicit recognition of deviationist and subversive translative replies within – or at the very least alongside – the traditional UK legal schema and (b) a softening of the UK right to adapt by application of the integrity moral right to translations. In addition, a deeper quasi-Ungerian notion of institutional change that accommodates both principles (e. g. legitimate translations can, of course, be argued to exist, to which copyright accords) and counterprinciples (there are also, however, in the long term only multiple acts of translation, some preferred and commoditized, some existing outside that sphere, less functional and more creative/expressive but no less important and not to be prevented for those reasons) can also be advanced. Finally, a much broader critical point regarding the nature and role (or non-role) of law in the context of creative practices more generally can also be presented.

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