establish this from CNET News, via ZDNet, piece prowling his cyberpitch before this week. It seems that eBay is seeking a patent ruling from the USA Supreme Court equally to whether it together with other companies liable for patent infringement should live routinely dependent area to injunctions piece the infringement actions rest on appeal.
likes the thought that courts should live given enough of discretion to gain upwardly one's hear whether, inwards the circumstances of each case, the injunction should seize amongst teeth pending the appeal result, since at that spot are together with thence many permutations of fact that yous can't build a unmarried rule. But at that spot is a downside: the to a greater extent than discretion the courts have, the to a greater extent than necessary it is for parties to litigate inwards social club to honour out whether they tin comport on using a technology pending an appeal. The best solution is to larn out discretion to the courts, but formulate a gear upwardly of guidelines that the courts volition live charged to depart from ONLY when at that spot is substantial justification for doing so.
2 Law together with Information Technology
Oxford University Press release a journal, the International Journal of Law together with Information Technology, which the IPKat thinks mightiness live interesting to to a greater extent than or less of the to a greater extent than info-techie visitors to his blog. Its General Editors are Linklaters' Christopher Millard and guru Richard Susskind, amongst a rigid supporting cast. The summertime 2005 number includes the next offerings:
* "Designing Copyright TPM: a Mutant Ditigal Copyright", yesteryear Lucy Cradduck together with Adrian Mccullagh ("TPM" beingness "technological protection measures", for the uninitiated);
* Anatoli Kalpakidou writes on whether trouble concern method patents should endure inwards Europe (a topical number inwards lite of the collapse of the Computer Implemented Patent Directive);
* Alexander Shytov reviews mesh indecency issues inwards relation to international law.
says there's to a greater extent than or less first-class scholarly writing inwards this journal. He proposes to monitor its progress together with promises to allow yous know how it's going.
3 IPI event: complimentary drinks
In conjunction amongst McDermott Will & Emery and Valuation Consulting, the Intellectual Property Institute is asset a seminar on IP Valuation: the Eden Project.
The Eden Project itself was a hugely successful slice of IP creation, but the fall-out inwards legal price was catastrophic. The Project's founder Jonathan Ball ended upwardly beingness removed from it together with at that spot was substantial merchandise score litigation inwards which he equally good had the EDEN PROJECT merchandise score taken from him together with returned to the Project. Following a massive conflict of interests, Ball sued solicitors Druces & Attlee for professional person negligence together with was awarded £2 1000000 damages. The valuation of a trouble concern innovation containing confidential data was to a greater extent than or less other expanse of IP interest. Speakers are Jonathan Ball, together amongst ace litigator Larry Cohen (McDermotts) together with Kelvin King (Valuation Consulting).
This seminar, hosted yesteryear McDermotts'; London office, takes identify on Wed 21 September. Surprisingly, electronic details are non withal available on whatever of the participants' websites, but the 3 sheets of A4 paper, printed on i side entirely together with sent out yesteryear the Institute, incorporate all yous necessitate to know summation a registration form. No entry fee is mentioned together with at that spot are refreshments ...
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