{"title":"US anti-suit injunctions and German anti-anti-suit injunctions in SEP disputes","authors":"Felix K. Hess","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12240","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12240","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The essay argues that anti-suit injunctions granted in disputes on standard-essential patents are inconsistent with the general standards governing anti-suit injunctions. The section on anti-suit injunction demonstrates that the case law on anti-suit injunctions is not comparable to disputes over standard essential patents. In contrast, anti-anti-suit injunctions are a legitimate response to an extraterritorial assertion of jurisdiction by foreign courts. Under EU law, the courts of member states might even be required to issue anti-anti-suit injunctions to protect their exclusive jurisdiction over patents.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"536-555"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jwip.12240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79945482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book commentary: ‘The Protection of Intellectual Property Rights under International Investment Law Simon Klopschinski, Christopher S. Gibson, Henning Grosse Ruse Khan, OUP, Oxford, 2021","authors":"Carlos M. Correa","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12235","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"589-595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78350903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A potential intellectual property issue with the way in which some nomenclature code decisions are made","authors":"Stephen J. Maxwell, Michael Underdown","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12236","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the legal status of nomenclature codes and their application to denomination in certain forms of intellectual property, in particular plant breeder's rights and patents for micro-organisms. Its objective is to show how rigidity and the absence of appeals against nomenclature decisions can have adverse effects on the rights and even earning potential of applicants.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"574-578"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jwip.12236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73430210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internet of Things and the Law: Legal Strategies for Consumer-Centric Smart Technologies Guido Noto la Diega (Routledge2022, 416 pages)","authors":"Marc Stuhldreier","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12238","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"596-599"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81069307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A critical evaluation of the interface between intellectual property rights and human rights with special emphasis on indigenous intellectual property","authors":"Wathsala R. Samaranayake","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12229","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12229","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The rendezvous between intellectual property rights and human rights has awakened slumbering legal spirits. Miscellaneous legal phenomena are now nestled in the intersection between intellectual property rights and human rights. However, the interplay between human rights and intellectual property rights is bizarrely characterized by amity and hostility. Naturally, therefore, situating indigenous intellectual property at the intersection of intellectual property and human rights becomes a daunting task. However, the dilemma is often overstated especially from the point of view of conventional intellectual property rights. At the outset of this Article, I shall be exploring the history and the development of the relationship between human rights and intellectual property rights. In the followng section, I shall be examining the extent to which intellectual property rights are entrenched in the international human rights instruments. The last section shall be devoted to exploring the phenomenon of locating indigenous peoples' rights at the interface between intellectual property rights and human rights and reflecting on the ensuing issues—an aspect which has seldom been considered in the existing literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"412-431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74647640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The legal protection of new plant varieties in Algerian and American system","authors":"Kheira Mousseddek","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12227","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12227","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The importance of plants in almost all fields yields for a continuous international effort to determine the protection of innovations in plants, especially with the tendency of countries to make huge investments in this area. Though, most of the world's countries agreed to set-up effective protection for new plant varieties, they differ over the type and nature of proper legal protection. This discrepancy in international positions on legal protection frameworks leads the researchers to investigate the most appropriate legal adaptations of innovative new plant varieties; are they inventions or an independent intellectual property right? And what are the suitable ways to protect it? Thereby, a comparative analysis of the national texts with some foreign legislation has been conducted. The study structure is twofold. The first section dealt with the legal protection of plant varieties within an independent legal system: a study in the Algerian law, while the second one presented the possibility of protecting a new plant variety under a patent: a study in the American legislation. The results showed that the adoption of a patent protection system is of great importance. It is, thus, preferable for the legislator to approve the dual protection of new plant varieties.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"375-390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83425214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical account of dwindling national flexibilities from the Paris Convention to post-TRIPS era: What implications for access-to-medicines in low-and-middle-income-countries?","authors":"Olugbenga A. Olatunji","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12228","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12228","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is arguable that the most significant feature of the maiden Paris Convention is the creation of a remarkably broad national policy space which allowed Union members to balance the implementation of required obligations with the need to occasionally attend to national exigencies. Thus, a member may choose not to offer industrial property protection if national interests would be best served by doing so. While subsequent revisions to the Paris Convention chipped away at national flexibilities, the most strident attack to national flexibilities occurs under the Agreement for the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and the period after it. This paper puts the almost-unnoticed whittling down of national flexibilities in international patent agreements in historical perspective. It subsequently discusses four ways through which this development could exacerbate access-to-medicines in low-and-middle-income-countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"391-411"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jwip.12228","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91544753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Irina Razinkina, Mariya Bulatenko, Sergei Chernov, Valeriy Prasolov
{"title":"Ethical and legal balance of modern economic intelligence","authors":"Irina Razinkina, Mariya Bulatenko, Sergei Chernov, Valeriy Prasolov","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12225","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12225","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Against the background of the economic confrontation between Western countries and China, it is evident that the concept of economic intelligence is changing, manifesting itself in several planes simultaneously, and corporate confrontation moves to the level of protection of national interests. At the same time, the factors influencing the perception of corporate confrontation methods are subject to changes. The purpose of this study is to examine the current transformation of approaches to the understanding of ethical behavior in economic intelligence in the context of existing legal constraints. Based on the assumption that methods and tactics of economic intelligence are not static, the study aims to identify factors that influence their ethical perception. The study argues that the transformation of approaches to the understanding of ethical behavior and the very definition of ethical behavior in economic intelligence is directly related to the technological aspect, the transition of many business processes in the digital plane. In cyberspace, the psychological perception of wrongdoing changes significantly. Commitment to ethical behavior may naturally decrease due to the lack of personal contact between the agent of influence and the source.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"335-346"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84431384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treasured relations: Towards partnership and the protection of Māori relationships with taonga plants in Aotearoa New Zealand","authors":"David J. Jefferson","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12226","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12226","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For more than three decades, the system of intellectual property for plants in Aotearoa New Zealand has been the subject of controversy. Critics claim that the system fails to fulfil the promises of the nation's founding document, <i>Te Tiriti o Waitangi</i>|<i>The Treaty of Waitangi</i> (1840), which guarantees that Māori will retain <i>tino rangatiratanga</i> (absolute sovereignty) over their <i>taonga</i> (treasured and significant) plant species. The 2021 Plant Variety Rights Bill aims to address this concern while also complying with international obligations that New Zealand undertook when it joined the <i>Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership</i> (2018). Thus, the Bill endeavours to uphold the government's commitments under Te Tiriti and to give effect to the 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention. These plural and sometimes divergent goals manifest a deeper tension that underlies how legal systems in Aotearoa New Zealand conceptualise human relationships with nonhuman beings and environments. While a Pākehā (Western/European) approach to intellectual property conceives of plants as alienable economic objects, <i>tikanga Māori</i> (customary protocols and values) understands that like humans, plants possess <i>mauri</i> (life force) and <i>whakapapa</i> (genealogy) that connect these beings with the environments they inhabit. This article explores how tensions between ontological, legal, and political systems imbue the Plant Variety Rights Bill. While the proposal represents a progressive reform, it may fall short of living up to its aspirations for authentic partnership between Māori and the Crown.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"347-374"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jwip.12226","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83066823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patent law and 3D printing applications in response to COVID-19: Exceptions to inventor rights","authors":"Muhammad Z. Abbas","doi":"10.1111/jwip.12224","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jwip.12224","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology offers promise in relation to much-needed health technologies associated with COVID-19. Additive manufacturing, which allows the rapid conversion of information from digital 3D models into physical objects, is uniquely well-positioned to address the shortage of critical medical devices by enabling the fabrication and repair of medical devices in a timely and cost-effective manner. This paper examines the issue of patent rights being at odds with access to critical 3D printable health technologies during COVID-19 crisis. It undertakes an in-depth analysis of the right to repair and calls for a clearer recognition of the right to repair exemption at the global level. It also evaluates the private and noncommercial use exception and proposes the use of a reasonably broad form of this exception to make it practically significant. It also considers the experimental use exception and calls upon World Trade Organization Member States to provide legislative clarity that a defense of an experimental use extends to repairs. This study is crucial because access to necessary health technologies, in a pandemic context, is a matter of life and death for millions of patients around the globe, especially for underprivileged patients in resource-constrained countries.</p>","PeriodicalId":54129,"journal":{"name":"Journal of World Intellectual Property","volume":"25 2","pages":"317-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2022-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348269/pdf/JWIP-25-317.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40681150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}