One of the most popular topics for legal analysis today is "Nanotechnology." One way that this topic is addressed is to apply historical experience and existing ideas to the development of this technology. However, many times this analysis flows from the assumption that nanotechnology is, from an Intellectual Property (IP) perspective, no different than other technologies, such as the developme...

The field of intellectual property (IP) law today is focused, as the name itself advertises, on one particular institutional approach to scientific and cultural production: IP. When legal scholars explain this focus, they typically do so with reference to the virtues of price. Because price gives us a decentralized way to link social welfare to the production of information, IP is alleged to be...

Intellectual property (“IP”) is often credited with providing an incentive for inventors to develop their creativity. Through IP protection, inventors can recoup their investment and make a profit. That idea, which has inspired legislators worldwide, is currently challenged in the European case law on competition. In the last twenty years, five cases have limited, in the name of competition, th...

Abstract This article provides an overview and discussion of a multitude issues that are relevant for IP licensing under Japanese law. The authors recap the results legislative process predominantly addressed licensee’s position in case licensor's insolvency, including 2020 amendment to Copyright Act, examine whether comprehensive reform regulations Japan would be preferable also offering bette...

Congenital absence of flexor pollicis longus without associated anomalies is a rare cause of inability to flex the inter-phalangeal (IP) joint of the thumb. Other causes are: anomalous insertion of flexor pollicis longus (FPL), congenital tenovaginitis of the flexor tendon sheath, partial anterior interosseous nerve paralysis, traumatic rupture of FPL and anomalous bands connecting tendons.1 A ...

intellectual property law is premised traditionally on the protection of inventions (patent), literary and artistic property (copyright), and signs (trade mark); and sui generis rights, such as design law, stand outside this framework and are constantly questioned and re-shaped the fashion industry is an intellectual property (ip) intensive industry, continually generating and commercially expl...