Author : Ali Jazairy
Publisher : Université de Genève
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 23,36 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 3725569126
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Author : Luc Desaunettes-Barbero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2023-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 3031267869
Despite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended. The present book investigates the foundations of their legal protection by assessing its justifications and aims to define how this legal apprehension should be organized. The book starts with a comparative analysis of the US and the EU legal frameworks. It demonstrates the parentship existing between the two systems of protection and highlights that the incremental structuring of trade secrets protection has led to legal systems lacking broad-based conceptual foundations. In both legal orders, trade secrets rely on blurred protection, formally anchored in unfair competition, the strength of which, however, comes closer to that offered by intellectual property law. In this convoluted architecture, the judiciary is required to play a decisive role, especially at the enforcement stage. However, the absence of clarity concerning the telos of trade secrets protection leads to legal uncertainty, potentially incoherent enforcement, and, all in all, to inefficient outcomes from a welfare perspective. The book then explores a theoretical framework based on a distinction between two legal objects: the undertakings’ secret sphere and secret pieces of information. Securing the undertakings’ secret sphere appears as a condition for the competition process to happen in an economy working under structural uncertainty. It requires objective regulations enforced by public authorities. On the other hand, the legal apprehension of secret pieces of information should be considered as falling within the realm of immaterial goods regulation aiming to solve the deficit of marketability of this type of good. This might call – after conducting a careful policy trade-off – for the establishment of relative (i.e. inter partes) subjective rights.
Author : Magdalena Kolasa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 110833749X
In the increasingly knowledge- and innovation-based economy in which the mobility of the workforce is vital, employees and ex-employees are considered to be one of the biggest threats to the existence of trade secrets. The interests of the former parties to the employment relationship are contradictory: employers want to safeguard their competitive position by limiting use of information, and employees want to use that information to pursue their professional career. Magdalena Kolasa analyses existing guidelines that determine the extent to which former employees may use information learned during service. She proposes criteria for a balanced enforcement of trade secrets, discussing the statutory and implicit confidentiality duties, contractual protection, and remedies. Drawing from the laws of Germany, UK, and USA, and considering the EU Trade Secrets Directive, this book advocates an approach which recognises the value and functions of trade secrecy both within companies and in the context of public policy.
Author : Pranvera Këllezi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 20,47 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 331946891X
This publication provides an unparalleled comparative analysis of two "hot topics" in the field of antitrust and unfair competition law with regard to a number of key countries. The first part of the book examines the prohibition of abuse of a dominant position and globalization in relation to two broad questions: first, whether there is consistency between the approaches of different jurisdictions to the notion of abuse, and, second, whether there are too many restrictions on legal rights and business opportunities resulting from the prohibition of abuse of dominance. The international report drafted by Professor Pinar Akman reveals that there are as many similarities as differences between the approaches of the twenty-one jurisdictions studied and presented in this book. This is an invitation to read the excellent international report as well as the reports on specific jurisdictions in order to grasp the variety of arguments and approaches of this antitrust area, which may, on the surface, appear alike. The second part gathers contributions on the question of protection and disclosure of trade secrets and know-how from various jurisdictions. The need for adequate protection of trade secrets has increased due to digitalization and the ease with which large volumes of misappropriated information can be reproduced. The comprehensive international report, prepared by Henrik Bengtsson, brings together these reflections by comparing various national positions. The book also discusses the resolutions passed by the General Assembly of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) following a debate on each of these topics, and includes proposed solutions and recommendations.
Author : Tanya Aplin
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1785368346
This Handbook provides a scholarly and comprehensive account of the multiple converging challenges that digital technologies present for intellectual property (IP) rights, from the perspectives of international, EU and US law. Despite the fast-moving nature of digital technology, this Handbook provides profound reflections on the underlying normative legal dilemmas, identifying future problems and suggesting how digital IP issues should be dealt with in the future.
Author : Magdalena Kolasa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108424228
A comparative analysis of trade secrets enforcement against ex-employees in the EU and USA, aimed at legislators and practitioners.
Author : P. Bernt Hugenholtz
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2018-04-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9041191038
About this book: Copyright Reconstructed is the result of a collaborative research project, ‘Reconstructing Rights’ funded by Microsoft Europe, that normatively examined the core economic rights protected under EU copyright law, with the aim of realigning these rights with economic and technological realities. It follows an interdisciplinary approach, combining economic and legal methods. The book presents various concurring future models of ‘reconstructed’ copyright law. The historical evolution of copyright has led to a growing disconnect between the legal definitions of economic rights and the business and technological realities they regulate, eroding copyright’s normative content and distorting the scope of its economic rights. What’s in this book: This book is structured as follows. Following a historical chapter that illustrates how a structure of media-specific economic rights has developed in international copyright law as copyright’s catalogue of rights, a number of alternative models for reconstructing rights are presented in the form of chapters by Europe’s most respected copyright scholars and economists focusing on potentially copyright-relevant acts that lie at the borders of exclusive rights: digital resale;private copying;hyperlinking and embedding;cable retransmission; andtext and data mining. How this will help you: Offering the most incisive current thinking on copyright’s economic rights in an increasingly networked world where acts of usage of works occur on a global or regional scale rather than on a purely national territorial basis, this book will be of immeasurable value not only to academics but also to practitioners and professionals in intellectual property law. This book guides copyright lawyers and scholars in the fields of international and EU copyright law in understanding the nexus between copyright law and technological and economic change. It also helps lawmakers and judges at the European, national and international levels formulate legislative responses to the challenges of the digital environment.
Author : Benhamou Yaniv
Publisher : de Werra Jacques, Université de Genève
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 3725586624
Cet ouvrage rassemble les contributions consacrées au droit d’auteur à l’ère du numérique et présentées lors de la Journée de Droit de la Propriété Intellectuelle (www.jdpi.ch) organisée le 22 février 2017 à l’Université de Genève. Ces contributions sont: Blocage de sites web en droit suisse : des injonctions civiles et administratives de blocage au séquestre pénal (Yaniv Benhamou) ; Website Blocking Injunctions-a decade of development (Jo Oliver/Elena Blobel) ; Le marché numérique européen : enseignements de la jurisprudence de la Cour de justice et perspectives règlementaires (Jean-Michel Bruguière) ; User-generated Content and Other Digital Copyright Challenges: A North American Perspective (Ysolde Gendreau) ; Copyright in the Digital Age: A view from Asia (Wenwei Guan) ; Deep Copyright: Up - and Downstream Questions Related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) (Daniel Schoenberger).
Author : Höpperger Marcus
Publisher : Université de Genève
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 25,81 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 3725585636
Cet ouvrage constitue le huitième volume de la collection p®opriété intelle©tuelle – intelle tual p operty (www.pi-ip.ch). Il rassemble les contributions qui ont été rédigées à l’occasion de la Journée de Droit de la Propriété Intellectuelle (www.jdpi.ch) organisée le 5 février 2015 à l’Université de Genève sur le thème « Le droit du design / Design Law ». Il ne fait pas de doute que l’apparence extérieure des produits qui nous entourent est susceptible d’exercer une force d’attraction importante, voire une fascination sur le public des consommateurs. Preuve en est la valeur phénoménale progressivement acquise par une firme californienne à la désormais célébrissime pomme – qui était, il faut le rappeler, au bord du gouffre il y a quelques années –. Cette firme a en effet su inventer ou réinventer des produits technologiques à destination de tous à la ligne épurée et attractive, qu’il s’agisse de téléphones, de tablettes ou d’autres produits électroniques. Il est certes clair que l’attractivité de ces produits ne tient pas exclusivement à leur apparence, mais également à leur convivialité et fonctionnalités technologiques. On ne peut toutefois pas doutes que leur « look » y contribue aussi (largement). Il n’est dès lors pas surprenant que nombre d’entreprises dans des secteurs et industries très variés consacrent d’importantes ressources et leur énergie créatrice à développer des produits au design unique, destiné à les distinguer de ceux de leurs concurrents. Comment le droit du design peut-il dès lors protéger cette créativité des produits et à quelles conditions ? Juger du pouvoir d’attraction de la forme d’un produit n’est pas tâche aisée. C’est en somme tenter de faire écho sur le plan légal à la phrase du célèbre designer Milton Glaser : « There are three responses to a piece of design : yes, no and … WOW. WOW is the one to aim for ». Pour explorer le domaine évolutif du droit du design, les auteurs des remarquables contributions qui composent ce livre se sont penchés sur diverses facettes de la thématique en droit international et national. Qu’ils soient chaleureusement remerciés pour leur précieux travail et que M. Pierre Heuzé qui s’est chargé des tâches d’édition du livre trouve ici aussi l’expression de ma vive reconnaissance.
Author : Marco M. Aleman
Publisher : Jacques de Werra
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 372558706X
Patent Transactions. Limited regulation in the multilateral legal framework and diverse legislation and practice at the country level (Marco M. Aleman) ; International Technology Transactions from a Development Perspective (Christoph Spennemann) ; International IP transactions: arguments for developing a UN standard (Mark Anderson) ; IT Agreements - from software to cloud services (Philippe Gilliéron) ; Accords de technologie et droit de la concurrence: de l’approche plus économique à la saisie par l’abus de position dominante (Adrien Alberini).
