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Divergence of UK law from EU law after Brexit: the example of intellectual property. The 22nd Burrell Lecture* 英国脱欧后英国法律与欧盟法律的差异:以知识产权为例。第22届伯勒尔讲座*
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2022.02.01
R. Arnold
This lecture identifies and discusses five ways in which UK law has already diverged and may in future diverge from EU law, taking intellectual property law as an example. It suggests that, in a field like intellectual property law, divergence is likely to be a slow and incremental process. Moreover, it is uncertain where divergence will occur or to what extent. Where there is international agreement as to the appropriate balance between stakeholders, that may lead to the UK and the EU moving in parallel rather than diverging.*Competition Law Association, 2 December 2021.
本讲座以知识产权法为例,确定并讨论了英国法律已经和未来可能与欧盟法律产生分歧的五种方式。这表明,在知识产权法这样的领域,分歧可能是一个缓慢而渐进的过程。此外,分歧将在哪里发生或在多大程度上发生还不确定。如果在利益相关者之间达成适当平衡的国际协议,这可能会导致英国和欧盟平行而非分歧。*竞争法协会,2021年12月2日。
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How Half-Causation can enlighten the drafting of patent claims 半因果关系如何启发专利权利要求书的起草
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.03
Mo Abolkheiro
The author’s 2019 article ‘If You Wish to Invent Then Follow the Half-Causation Method’ presented ‘Half-Causation’, which is a philosophical model for the systemization of the invention process. It consists of five phases of reasoning, each terminating with taking a ‘logical branch’. This paper has two objectives. The first (and preliminary) objective is to introduce a readership in patent practices (and theory) to Half-Causation. The second (and primary) objective is to highlight how Half-Causation can be practically useful to patent practitioners (and perhaps ultimately theorists), specifically in terms of enlightening the drafting of patent claims. In order to do this effectively, the reader is presented with a case which they can engage with to see for themselves how Half-Causation can help, step by step. The presented case was the subject of the USPTO’s 2019 patent drafting competition. It consists of rather convoluted instructions received from an ‘imaginary’ client about their ‘imaginary’ invention. The case is an excellent opportunity to illustrate how Half-Causation as a philosophical model can be practically useful. Two Half-Causation tools are implemented.The first is Half-Causation Branching, which allows the logical mapping of the inventing space, within which the imaginary invention is located. Implementing this tool reveals two alternative nearby inventions, which if left out of the sought patent protection would render any eventually granted patent practically worthless. Following that, Half-Causation Encapsulation comes to the rescue by allowing the encapsulation of the original imaginary invention, plus the two alternative nearby ones, all in a manner that provides the all-important unity of inventionOn the one hand, patent agents are not supposed to contribute to their client’s inventive concept to the extent that they become co-inventors. On the other hand, scientists and engineers are not supposed to dedicate so much time and effort to learning about complex patent laws as to become patent agents. Arguably, each should aim to excel in their discipline. However, a structured dialogue should be considerably helpful to each and to the patent process as a whole. It is proposed that Half-Causation, with its logical structure, can provide a basis for such a dialogue.Besides targeting a readership in patent practices and theory, this paper should be of interest to multiple readerships, for example in engineering design, medical discovery and philosophy of technology.
作者2019年的文章《如果你想发明,那么就遵循半因果法》提出了“半因果”,这是发明过程系统化的哲学模型。它由五个推理阶段组成,每个阶段都以“逻辑分支”结束。本文有两个目的。第一个(也是初步的)目标是向读者介绍专利实践(和理论)中的半因果关系。第二个(也是主要的)目标是强调半因果关系如何对专利从业者(也许最终是理论家)实际有用,特别是在启发专利权利要求的起草方面。为了有效地做到这一点,读者可以一步一步地了解半因果关系是如何帮助他们的。本案是美国专利商标局2019年专利起草竞赛的主题。它由一个“假想”客户收到的关于他们“假想”发明的相当复杂的指令组成。这个案例是一个很好的机会来说明半因果关系作为一个哲学模型是如何在实践中有用的。实施了两个半因果关系工具。第一种是半因果分支,它允许发明空间的逻辑映射,想象中的发明位于其中。实施这一工具揭示了附近的两项替代发明,如果将其排除在所寻求的专利保护之外,任何最终授予的专利都将变得毫无价值。之后,半因果封装通过允许封装原始想象的发明,加上附近的两个替代发明,以提供发明的至关重要的统一性,从而拯救了局面。一方面,专利代理人不应该在成为共同发明人的程度上为其客户的发明概念做出贡献。另一方面,科学家和工程师不应该花那么多时间和精力来学习复杂的专利法,而应该成为专利代理人。可以说,每个人都应该以在自己的学科中脱颖而出为目标。然而,结构化的对话应该对每一个以及整个专利过程都有很大帮助。有人提出,具有逻辑结构的半因果关系可以为这种对话提供基础。除了针对专利实践和理论的读者,本文还应该引起多个读者的兴趣,例如工程设计、医学发现和技术哲学。
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Artificial intelligence and patents: DABUS and methods for attracting enhanced attention to inventors 人工智能与专利:DABUS和吸引更多发明者注意的方法
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.00
Johanna Gibson
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A reply to: Chorzów Factory – intellectual property and the continuity of international law in investor-state dispute settlement 回复:Chorzów工厂-知识产权与投资者-国家争端解决中国际法的连续性
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.05
Alexander Ferguson
The case involving the nitrate factory at Chorzów, Upper Silesia has been the subject of much academic commentary. Last year the intellectual property aspects of the case were explored in this journal. In this reply, I express doubts about whether the case involved the expropriation of intellectual property rights (IPRs) for two reasons. First, there are grounds to question the existence of IPRs. Second, even if there were IPRs, the Permanent Court of International Justice does not appear to have found that IPRs were taken. Instead, the case serves as a reminder of the importance of identifying the legal status of an IPR in the relevant territory when seeking to protect it under international law.* My thanks to Martyna Mielniczuk-Skibicka and Kacper Górniak. All errors are my own.
涉及上西里西亚Chorzów硝酸盐工厂的案件一直是许多学术评论的主题。去年,本杂志对该案件的知识产权方面进行了探讨。在本答复中,我对此案是否涉及侵犯知识产权表示怀疑,原因有二。首先,有理由质疑知识产权的存在。其次,即使存在知识产权,常设国际法院似乎也没有发现知识产权被盗用。相反,该案提醒人们,在根据国际法寻求保护知识产权时,确定知识产权在相关领土的法律地位是非常重要的。*我感谢Martyna Mielniczuk-Skibicka和Kacper Górniak。所有的错误都是我自己的。
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SEPs licensing across the supply chain: an antitrust perspective 供应链上的sep许可:一个反垄断的视角
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.04
Oscar Borgogno,Giuseppe Colangelo
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the development of 5G are set to add a new layer of complexity to the current practice of standard essential patents (SEPs) licensing. While, until recently, the debate has centred on the nature of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory (FRAND) commitments and the mechanisms to avoid hold-up and reverse hold-up problems between licensors and licensees, a new hotly-debated issue has now emerged. At its core is the question of whether SEP holders should be required to grant a FRAND licence to any implementer seeking a licence, including component makers (the so-called ‘licence-to-all’ approach), or if they should be allowed freely to target the supply-chain level at which the licence is to be granted (the so-called ‘access-for-all’ approach). After providing an up-to-date overview of the current legal and economic debate, this article focuses on the most recent antitrust case law dealing with the matter on both sides of the Atlantic and argues that no sound economic and legal bases which favour licence-to-all solutions can be identified.* The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees, Luigi Federico Signorini and the participants in the 2021 Annual Conference of European Policy for Intellectual Property (EPIP), in the 38th Annual Conference of the European Law and Economics Association (EALE), in the TILTing Perspectives 2021 (Tilburg University), and in the 16th Annual Conference of the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA). The study was conducted as part of the research activities promoted by the DEEP-IN (Digital Ecosystem, Economic Policy and Innovation) Research Network. The author is grateful for the financial support received. Any opinions expressed in this paper are personal and are not to be attributed to the Bank of Italy.The first is Half-Causation Branching, which allows the logical mapping of the inventing space, within which the imaginary invention is located. Implementing this tool reveals two alternative nearby inventions, which if left out of the sought patent protection would render any eventually granted patent practically worthless. Following that, Half-Causation Encapsulation comes to the rescue by allowing the encapsulation of the original imaginary invention, plus the two alternative nearby ones, all in a manner that provides the all-important unity of inventionOn the one hand, patent agents are not supposed to contribute to their client’s inventive concept to the extent that they become co-inventors. On the other hand, scientists and engineers are not supposed to dedicate so much time and effort to learning about complex patent laws as to become patent agents. Arguably, each should aim to excel in their discipline. However, a structured dialogue should be considerably helpful to each and to the patent process as a whole. It is proposed that Half-Causation, with its logical structure, can provide a basis for such a dialogue.Besides targeting a readership in patent
物联网(IoT)的兴起和5G的发展将为目前的标准必要专利(sep)许可实践增加新的复杂性。虽然直到最近,争论的焦点还集中在公平、合理和非歧视(FRAND)承诺的性质以及在许可人和被许可人之间避免拖延和扭转拖延问题的机制上,但现在出现了一个新的激烈争论的问题。其核心问题是,是否应该要求SEP持有人向任何寻求许可的实施者授予FRAND许可,包括组件制造商(所谓的“面向所有人的许可”方法),或者是否应该允许他们自由地针对将被授予许可的供应链层面(所谓的“面向所有人的许可”方法)。在提供了当前法律和经济辩论的最新概述之后,本文将重点放在大西洋两岸处理该问题的最新反垄断判例法上,并认为没有可靠的经济和法律基础可以确定支持所有解决方案的许可。*作者要感谢匿名审稿人Luigi Federico Signorini以及参加2021年欧洲知识产权政策年会(EPIP)、第38届欧洲法律和经济协会年会(EALE)、TILTing Perspectives 2021(蒂尔堡大学)和第16届竞争法学术协会年会(ASCOLA)的与会者。这项研究是DEEP-IN(数字生态系统、经济政策和创新)研究网络推动的研究活动的一部分。作者对所获得的财政支持表示感谢。本文中表达的任何观点都是个人观点,不属于意大利银行。第一种是半因果分支,它允许对发明空间进行逻辑映射,想象中的发明就位于其中。执行此工具会发现两个可选的邻近发明,如果将其排除在寻求的专利保护之外,将使任何最终授予的专利实际上毫无价值。在此之后,半因果封装法(Half-Causation Encapsulation)就应运而生了,它允许将原始的想象发明和附近的两个备选发明进行封装,所有这些都以一种提供最重要的发明统一的方式进行。一方面,专利代理人不应该为其委托人的发明概念做出贡献,以至于他们成为共同发明人。另一方面,科学家和工程师不应该花那么多时间和精力去学习复杂的专利法,而不是去成为专利代理人。可以说,每个人都应该以在自己的学科中脱颖而出为目标。然而,结构化的对话应该对每个人以及整个专利过程都有很大的帮助。半因果关系的逻辑结构为这种对话提供了基础。除了针对专利实践和理论方面的读者外,本文还应引起多种读者的兴趣,例如工程设计,医学发现和技术哲学。
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Conceptual confusing similarity and pictorial trade marks 概念混淆的相似性和图案商标
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.01
R. Batty
Several high-profile rebrands, including those by Twitter and Starbucks, have involved removing text from logos. This move towards wordless, pictorial trade marks raises a difficult question about how the scope of protection of a registered trade mark should be determined. This article examines the particular issue of how much weight should be given to the idea or concept underlying a pictorial mark when assessing whether a defendant’s junior mark is ‘confusingly similar’. Drawing on legal principles and case examples from Europe, the United Kingdom, Singapore and New Zealand, it is claimed that courts and adjudicators should be careful not to overweight conceptual similarity. It is argued that a lack of care in assessing conceptual similarity risks awarding one trader overbroad protection, which may be tantamount to conferring on one trader a monopoly in an idea. A lack of care may also undermine the logic of a registration system by untethering protection from what is recorded on the Register, and may make trade mark law less predictable and certain.* The author declares that he was junior counsel in a case discussed in this article, Carabao Tawandang Co Ltd v Red Bull GmbH HC Wellington CIV-2005-485-1975, 31 August 2006. The views represented in this article are the author’s own, and do not reflect the views of his employer at the time, or the views of the client represented in that particular case.
包括推特(Twitter)和星巴克(Starbucks)在内的几次备受瞩目的品牌重塑都涉及删除标志中的文字。这种无文字、有图案的商标的做法提出了一个棘手的问题,即如何确定注册商标的保护范围。这篇文章探讨了一个特殊的问题,即在评估被告的初级分数是否“令人困惑地相似”时,应该在多大程度上重视图形标记背后的想法或概念。根据欧洲、联合王国、新加坡和新西兰的法律原则和案例,据称法院和裁决者应注意不要过分强调概念上的相似性。有人认为,在评估概念相似性时缺乏谨慎可能会给一个交易员提供过度保护,这可能等同于给一个交易者一个想法的垄断权。缺乏谨慎也可能会破坏注册制度的逻辑,使其不受注册簿上记录的保护,并可能使商标法不那么可预测和确定。*提交人声明,他是本文讨论的Carabao Tawandang Co Ltd v Red Bull GmbH HC Wellington CIV-2005-485-19752006年8月31日案件的初级律师。本文中所陈述的观点是提交人自己的观点,并不反映其雇主当时的观点,也不反映在该特定案件中所代表的客户的观点。
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Hunting the standard of compensation – intellectual property, Chorzów Factory and investments: a response 狩猎补偿标准-知识产权,Chorzów工厂和投资:回应
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.06
P Sean Morris*
While the debate on intellectual property and international investment law is relatively young, the role of historical cases will be important in offering some interpretative analysis. Due to the niche nature of both areas of law, where, often times, the legal luminaries found in both areas often speak past each other, in an earlier issue of this journal I offered an interpretative history of Chorzów Factory as an example of early case law by an international court illustrating the origins of the ISDS involving intellectual property. As with any interpretation, there are bound to be opposing views or explicit endorsement, but whatever the merits, that interpretative history has initiated a debate in the pages of this journal. That debate is in part, a response to my original analysis, to which I offer a response. This response is to endorse the fact that additional information has come forward that will enrich the debate on Chorzów Factory and its connection to intellectual property. Moreover, this response argues that the reply misses the point regarding the formal connection of international law to intellectual property in ISDS, a connection that I attempted to demonstrate through the example of the Chorzów Factory case – where a legal fight in the 1920s over nitrate, other chemical production and ownership still continue to be of relevance to international law.
虽然关于知识产权和国际投资法的辩论相对较年轻,但历史案例在提供一些解释性分析方面将发挥重要作用。由于这两个法律领域的小众性质,通常情况下,这两个领域的法律名人经常各行其道,在本杂志的前几期中,我提供了Chorzów Factory的解释性历史,作为国际法院早期判例法的一个例子,说明了涉及知识产权的ISDS的起源。与任何解释一样,必然会有反对意见或明确的支持,但无论其优点如何,解释历史已经在本杂志的页面上引发了一场辩论。这场辩论在某种程度上是对我最初分析的回应,我对我的分析做出了回应。这一回应是为了支持这样一个事实,即已经提出了更多的信息,这些信息将丰富关于Chorzów Factory及其与知识产权的联系的辩论。此外,该答复认为,该答复忽略了国际法与ISDS中知识产权的正式联系,我试图通过Chorzów工厂案件的例子来证明这种联系-在20世纪20年代,关于硝酸盐,其他化学品生产和所有权的法律斗争仍然与国际法有关。
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Regeneron and Illumina: a case for (and against) ranges Regeneron和Illumina:一个支持(或反对)范围的案例
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.07
A. Roughton
Insufficiency in patents, especially in emerging and complex technologies, can be a real problem for patent applicants. They are keen to progress to filing for obvious reasons and yet are expected to disclose how the invention works to its fullest extent. Problems arise in cases where a patent claim seeks to reserve a range of some sort. Recent judgments of the English Patents Court and the UK Supreme Court have suggested that this is not a trivial problem in most cases of analysis. The upshot appears to be that a range patent is not to be struck down as insufficient simply because a range exists. Much depends upon the importance of the range to the claim or, in the Illumina case, whether mention or the existence of a range is in any way relevant. An analysis of two recent judgments in the UK concerning sufficiency of disclosure sheds considerable light on the current ambit of legal thinking in this area of patent law.
专利不足,尤其是在新兴和复杂技术方面,对专利申请人来说可能是一个真正的问题。出于显而易见的原因,他们热衷于提交申请,但预计会披露本发明是如何发挥最大作用的。专利权利要求试图保留某种范围的案件会出现问题。英国专利法院和英国最高法院最近的判决表明,在大多数分析案件中,这不是一个微不足道的问题。结果似乎是,范围专利不会仅仅因为存在范围而被视为不够。这在很大程度上取决于范围对索赔的重要性,或者在Illumina的情况下,范围的提及或存在是否以任何方式相关。对英国最近两项关于披露充分性的判决的分析,对专利法这一领域目前的法律思维范围提供了相当大的启示。
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Book review: Emily Hudson, Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action (Cambridge University Press, 2020), 380 pp. 书评:Emily Hudson,《起草版权例外:从书中的法律到行动中的法律》(剑桥大学出版社,2020),380页。
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-04 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2021.04.08
Elena Cooper
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Farewell to Nichols: property ascription and fictional character copyright 告别尼科尔斯:财产归属与虚构人物版权
IF 0.4 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.4337/qmjip.2022.01.02
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