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[Guest post] Book review: ‘Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law: 20 Years of the IPKat’

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The book, titled Developments and Directions in Intellectual Property Law. And, speaking of the book, we are happy to re-publish the review that Bill Patry (Mayer Brown) provided of it, as just published by the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Copyright Office while register the software aspect of the designs (e.g., source code) under copyright law. Copyright Office, there is no need to concern about the leakage of the deposits. Here is the number of mask works registered with the U.S.

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Protecting Semiconductor Chip Design under the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA) – Part I (Registration and Inspection)

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Copyright Office by year for the last 10 years. Source : www.copyright.gov/history/annual_reports.html Year 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 # of MW 33 0 20 156 27 25 28 84 279 203 Even though the number of registered mask works is not enormous, they are still an important component of chip companies’ IP portfolio.

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Book Review: Art and Copyright

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In 2014, a total of nine regulations came into force, each of which presented a significant change to UK copyright law. It is a compact and no-nonsense guide to the often complex interrelations between the visual arts and intellectual property law.

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Copyright case law of the German Bundesgerichtshof 2015 – 2019 – Part 1 of 4: Definition of a work, authorship and moral rights

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Germany has always had an extensive judicial practice in copyright law. Usually, judges with a specialist knowledge of copyright law issue the decisions because among German courts, decision making bodies specialised in copyright law have been created. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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The football game as a copyright work (Part I)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Bernt Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2021. It derives from a paper given at the 25 th Anniversary celebration of IViR on 4 July 2014 and at the University of Oxford IP Moot “converzatione” on 18 March 2016. The topic of the 2014 paper was provided by Bernt Hugenholtz. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data.

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Digital Constitutionalism and Copyright Reform: Securing Access to through Fundamental Rights in the Online World

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Amongst the many examples in which fundamental rights have demonstrated their value and their essential function, recent reforms in European copyright law have underlined their importance for the European legal order. More from our authors: Law of Raw Data. Intellectual Property Law in China, 2nd edition.