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IP Scholarship, Citations, and Knowledge Governance: Some Insights from the History of IP Teaching in India

SpicyIP

While the question made sense ever since I read the post, it started making more sense (and bothering me more) after working on the SpicyIP Open IP Syllabus where I witnessed a relative “over-accessibility” of US-European IPR scholarship. I began to wonder – are there actually fewer IP scholars in India (or the Global South in general)?

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Never Too Late: If you missed the IPKat last week!

The IPKat

Copyright Anastasiia Kyrylenko discussed the recent interpretation of Article 4 of Directive 2004/48/EC by the CJEU in relation to possibility for collective management organisations to bring, in their own name, actions for copyright infringement on behalf of the right holders. Here is what you missed last week on the IPKat.

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Africa IP highlights 2022 #1: Copyright matters

The IPKat

The Africa IP Highlights! The Africa IP Highlights is an initiative of this Kat and is a series of posts put together to highlight some of the key developments in IP in Africa each year. Interested readers can find the Africa IP Highlights 2021, here. It’s December and time for.drumroll.

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What is right with EU trade agreements?

The IPKat

This Kat has recently defended her thesis, titled “Deconstructing EU IP norm-export to the Eastern European Neighbourhood”. In this post, I would like to summarise some of the take-aways from my thesis, which looked into how European Union’s (EU) trade agreements shape intellectual property (IP) legislation in third (non-EU) countries.

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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

With a new week just about to start, readers are informed about relevant developments in the IP world. This new campaign supports the IPO's commitments to raise public understanding, and ultimately respect, for IP rights. In 2010 Antoon was appointed to the Copyright Committee that advises the government on legislative matters.

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No IP, no right to information? CJEU to clarify scope of article 8 Enforcement Directive

The IPKat

Under article 8(1) of the Enforcement Directive (Directive 2004/48/EC) a claimant in infringement proceedings can request a court to order certain parties to disclose information. In other words, must a court, prior to ordering a party to disclose information on an alleged infringement, confirm the existence of said IP right?

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Jean Paul Gaultier, Birth Your Own Venus

IPilogue

The Code of the Cultural and Landscape Heritage’s legal force is separate from copyright laws and remains in effect when copyright protection does not. Photo Credits: The Fashion Law ; Jean Paul Gaultier ).