Ever wondered who is the most responsible for flooding the US courts with frivolous patent litigation suits over the past decade? While most fingers will inevitably point towards the so…
Month: February 2009
US-China IP Dispute
The WTO recently released its panel report on the US-China dispute over intellectual property rights. The panel found in the US’s favour on certain issues, with China winning out on…
EC Pharmaceutical Sector Inquiry Earns Critical Industry Response
Industry responses to the European Commission (EC) preliminary report on pharmaceutical competition (see the IPilogue blog of Dec. 15, 2008) are becoming available, and criticism has been abundant. In no…
Copyright on Literary and Artistic Creative Works
Alberto Musso is Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law and Deputy-Dean of the School of Law at the University of Bologna. He also teaches Copyright and Publishing…
Moving from Property towards Policy: Intellectual Property as Cultural Policy
Nicole Aylwin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Communication and Culture Graduate Programme at York University. “Cultural policies, in brief, are those that regulate what has been called the marketplace…
New Top Level Domains (TLDs) Create Tension For Trademark Owners
Internet users are familiar with the current top level domain structure of the World Wide Web. .com, .edu, and .org, amongst others, are all part of the common vocabulary used…