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The Public is the Problem!
Given that I’ve never been shy about voicing criticisms of intellectual property, is it not paradoxical that my favourite legal event of the year is the Fordham International IP Conference? Organized...
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Forum Shifting and the Research & Development Question
Back in June 2004 Jamie Love (Consumer Project on technology) and Tim Hubbard drafted a proposal for alternative framework for the financing of research and development. They suggested that it could...
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Windsurfing – the Sport of Grassroots Innovation?
At the moment I’m reading Eric Von Hippel’s “Democratizing Innovation” and was delighted to discover that his opening example of user-driven innovation relates to windsurfing, because I’m rather...
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Il Badalone; Brunnelleschi and an Early Patent
Normal service on boring enforcement related matters will resume later today, in the meantilme a little history. The initial draft stated the Badalone patent was the world’s first, this turns out to be...
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Analysis of the IP Enforcement Directive Report
My intent initially was to publish this in January, but as the preceding posts make clear, there was considerable digging to be done to get a better picture of the context. In what follows, I begin...
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