Session 17 - Intellectual Property Rights
Session 17 - Intellectual Property Rights
Session 17 - Intellectual Property Rights
Henry, ISG
Chapter 17
Protection and Licensing of
Intellectual Property
Introduction
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Litigation
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• Patents
• 1970 Patent Cooperation Treaty-
streamline application procedure, files
international claim with WIPO
• Scope of Patentable Subject Matter: See
the Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) case
in which the Supreme Court allowed
patent for living organisms
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• Trademarks
• Since 1996, EU Community Trademark
Regulation
• Madrid Protocol: centralized filing for
trademarks, WIPO enforced, U.S. has not
signed
• European Union Intellectual Trademark Office
(EUTM)
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• Domain Names
• ICANN adopted Uniform Domain Name
Dispute Resolution Policy
• Complaints submitted electronically to WIPO
• See the Mobile Communications Service v.
WebReg, RN (2006) case; respondent
registered domain name in bad faith
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• TRIPS (cont’d)
• 20 year patent- all fields of technology, new,
involving an inventive step (non-obvious) and
are capable of industrial application
• Problems: escape clause- to protect order,
public morality, human or animal or plant life
or to avoid serious prejudice to the
environment
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Antitrust Considerations
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