Suite à l’adoption des décrets d’application de la loi HADOPI, Apple Inc., I Tunes et French Data Network avaient déposé trois recours contestant leur validité au regard de la loi française et de plusieurs fondements communautaires et européens. Le 19 octobre 2011, le Conseil d’Etat a rejeté tous les arguments de forme et de fond qui avaient [...]
Le 14 octobre 2011, la Commission Fédérale Américaine du Commerce (FTC), la division Antitrust du ministère de la justice américain (DOJ), et la direction de la concurrence de la Commission européenne ont célébré les 20 ans de l’accord bilatéral de coopération signé le 23 septembre de 1991 entre les USA et l’Union européenne concernant l’application [...]
According to the famous expression anything under the sun that is made by man is patentable… even snowmen! On September 6, 2011, Ignacio Marc Asper (New York) has obtained from the Patent & Trademark Office a funny patent (U.S. patent 8,011,991 B2) on an apparatus for facilitating the construction of a snow man/woman ! In January [...]
La nouvelle a surpris tout le monde, même les membres du Parti Pirate. Ce dimanche 18 septembre 2011, ils viennent d’entrer au parlement de la ville Land de Berlin avec 8,9% des voix. Une première dans l’histoire de ce jeune parti de 12000 membres qui devrait obtenir 15 sièges à l’assemblée. Cette élection, qui certes concerne en premier lieu [...]
As public authorities works to remove the physical and non-physical borders which divide the world, the interoperability of communication technologies is becoming increasingly necessary for technical, economic and social reasons. Unfortunately, perfect interoperability is an unreachable goal, and attempts to mandate interoperability could disrupt the normal development of a market based on private property. However, [...]
On September 12, 2011, the European Council adopted the Directive 2006/116/EC on the Term of Protection of Copyright and Certain Related Rights. It extends the duration of protection for fixations of performances and for phonograms from 50 to 70 years starting, for the performers, with the performance or the first publication or communication to the public, and, [...]
On September 16, 2011, President Obama signed into law the patent reform adopted by the Congress a week earlier. Long waited and often delayed, this reform is the most change to US patent law since 1952. In brief, the intent of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 (entitled American Invents Act prior to its adoption by the Congress) is [...]
Cloud computing is a hot topic on both sides of the Atlantic. I will be blogging on this topic in three parts. The first part will explain exactly what is cloud computing and present its main actors and technical characteristics. In part two, I will discuss related technical challenges and general legal issues. Finally, I will focus on specific legal issues associated with the migration of [...]
Welcome to OpenIPLaw! This blog is dedicated to software law in the US, in France and at the European level. You will find here a regular update about laws, case law, and legal and economic news related to software, as well as law articles and reviews on various topics like software protection, business software strategies, patents, the rights [...]
