Abstract This paper analyses controversial patent licensing conditions in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector as “unfair trading conditions” under Art. 102(a) TFEU. It argues that application of Transfer Block Exemption Regulation does not prevent assessment 102 if licensor is dominant market. Hence, article examines four categories light case law Court Justice European Union ...

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In the Web of Data, licenses specifying the terms of use and reuse are associated not only to datasets but also to vocabularies. However, even less support is provided for taking the licenses of vocabularies into account than for datasets, which says it all. In particular, this paper addresses the following issue: checking the compatibility among the set of licenses assigned to the vocabularies...

One of the cellular defensivemechanisms against proteotoxic stress is the evolutionarily conserved proteotoxic stress response (PSR) or heat-shock response (HSR). Through up-regulation of molecular chaperones or heat-shock proteins (HSPs), the PSR empowers cells to repair and/or dispose of misfolded and aggregated proteins, thereby enduring stressful environments. Beyond being vital to stress r...