this is more than a study in the jurisprudence of regulation and of technology. The book also contains important and instructive essays in medical law (particularly), seeking, as it does, to explicate many of the background debates (for example on consent (pp 72–86) and information rights (pp 87–98), on the (legitimate and illegitimate) purposive interpretation of key texts such as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 and embryonic stem cell research (pp 47–56, 168–184), property in human tissue (pp 61–68) and genetic databases and forensic collections (pp 215–235), each of which is often treated in a more or less superficial way in some of the standard texts and commentaries, where judicial and legislative statements are offered without background context beyond some preferred ethical standpoint. And there are considerations of bioethics generally (pp 32–47, 100–118), patenting and human life forms (187–195), gambling (197–201), nanotechnology (pp 118–125).
Satisfaction with NHS is high but it may be bad news Satisfaction with the NHS has been rising steadily for the past decade and is at an all-time high – but that could spell bad news for patients. The more satisfied patients are with their medical care, the more likely they are to die, US researchers have found.
Die Heilberufsverbände fordern in einer Erklärung zum Freihandelsabkommen TTIP eine Positivliste für das deutsche Gesundheitswesen. Europa-Experte Alfred von der Bundeszahnärztekammer erklärt, was es damit auf sich hat.
The patent system is in crisis, and it endangers the future of software development in the United States. Let's create a system that defends innovation, instead of hindering it.
The Alabama Inventors Database includes inventors who lived in Alabama at the time they received their patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Government Documents Department of the Birmingham Public Library compiles these records and updates the database on an ongoing basis. Each record contains a link to the Web site of the USPTO where scanned images of the original documents may be viewed using TIFF software.
An anonymous reader writes "An article at Dr. Dobb's looks into the consequences of a dangerous idea from Oracle during their legal battle with Google: 'that Google had violated Oracle's Java copyrights by reimplementing Java APIs in Android.' The issue is very much unsettled in the courts, but the ...
European Patent Convention - This area contains legal texts from the EPO, including the European Patent Convention, Ancillary regulations to the EPC, National law relating to the EPC, Guidelines for Examination, and much more.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the leaders of G8 countries closed their recent summit in Hokkaido, Japan by encouraging “the acceleration of negotiations to establish a new international legal framework, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and seek to complete the negotiation by the end of this year.” (By Michael Geist)
Linksammlung des Software-Entwicklers Jürgen Ernst zu Softwarepatenten im Besonderen und Urheberrecht und Patentrecht im Allgemeinen. Enthält Verweise auf sehr kritische offizielle Studien von WIPO und Regierungen.
Ganz schön peinlich, wenn's stimmt: Im Patentstreit mit Samsung legt Apple einem deutschen Gericht offenbar ein manipuliertes Beweisfoto vor. Auf dem Bild ist neben Apples iPad 2 ein Galaxy Tab 10.1 mit einem falschen Seitenverhältnis und entferntem Samsung-Logo zu sehen.
Das EU-Parlament sollte dem Antipiraterie-Abkommen Acta in seiner vorliegenden Fassung nicht zustimmen. Zu dieser Empfehlung kommt ein im Auftrag des Außenwirtschaftsausschusses des Parlaments an
As part of the Single Market Act, the Commission unveiled today a wide-ranging strategy to modernise intellectual property rights (IPR) in the Single Market. The strategy sets out a blueprint for a number of initiatives the Commission intends to take between now and 2014. Among the first deliverables of this strategy are today's proposals for an easier licensing system for so-called "orphan works" and for a new regulation to reinforce customs actions in fighting trade of IPR infringing goods.
Dichloroacetate (DCA) committs "immortal" cancer cells to a natural death while leaving normal cells unharmed - but DCA is not patentable, so pharmaceutical companies have no incentive to begin clinical trials...
There are thousands of promising drugs for treating diseases that are simply not getting studied or brought to market because they are derived from natural or common substances that can't be patented. The dirty little secret of the pharma business is that
Heise online reports that bancrupt company IPIX will sell their patent holding the creation of 360° panoramas. Part of the patent protects undistorting images made with fish-eye lenses. As one commenter remarks this could be an opportunity for the open s
End of july IPIX announced bancruptcy. The company still holds patents regarding 360 ° panorama creation including undistorting images made with fish-eye lenses. Wouldn't it be a good idea to start an open source initiative to buy out and free the patent
Heise online reports that bancrupt company IPIX will sell their patent holding the creation of 360° panoramas. Part of the patent protects undistorting images made with fish-eye lenses. As one commenter remarks this could be an opportunity for the open s