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Identifiers, Metadata, and Shared Infrastructures Bolster Research Integrity

Velocity of Content

This piece originally appeared in Research Information. With the Retraction Watch database hitting almost 50,000 items and an ever-growing number of high-profile research misconduct cases , questions around the veracity of published research findings are becoming uncomfortably common. Re-published with permission.

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

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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. research on the genealogy of copyright’s balance metaphor. See also here ).

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[Sponsored] PatSeer’s IP Symposium ‘PatSight’ [Bangalore, December 9]

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The symposium aims to highlight the best innovative method in IP research and analysis via case studies and panel discussions and is free to attend. PatSeer is a research driven software and services organization specialising in providing intellectual property analysis and visualization solutions to aid R&D and corporate strategy.

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Plagiarism Police come for Winston & Strawn

Patently-O

I believe that Winston & Strawn will eventually prevail based upon a fair use defense, but it is still an embarrassing situation for the firm and attorneys involved. In this case, HLG alleges that Winston & Strawn plagiarized a motion to dismiss that HLG had filed on behalf of a client in an earlier consolidated patent case.

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ResearchGate Removes 200,000 ‘Infringing’ Files After Takedown Tidal Wave

TorrentFreak

One of the core pillars of academic research is sharing. By letting other researchers know what you do, ideas are criticized, improved upon, and extended. To make their work easier to access, many researchers place copies of their work on their personal profiles, often hosted by their university. ResearchGate.

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Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge

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As such, it’s an essential tool for less privileged students and researchers around the world. Tearing Down Paywalls Since 2011 Without Sci-Hub, many academics would be unable to complete their research projects. When I was working on my research project, I found out that all research papers I needed for work were paywalled.

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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

The IPKat

In its last judgment of 2022, the Patents Court issued a decision in the case of Oxford University Innovation Ltd v Oxford Nanoimaging Ltd [2022] EWHC 3200 (Pat)). Jing was young, inexperienced, had a small salary, and had low status in the University as a research intern. Who owned the patent?