Title:National, European and Community Patent Protection: Time for Reconsideration
Author(s):ULLRICH, HannsDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The completion of a Community system of unitary intellectual property protection has come to a halt when the Commission’s proposal for a Community Patent Regulation was shelved by the Council on political grounds in late ...
Title:The Nature of Legal Concepts: Inferential Nodes or Ontological Categories?
Author(s):SARTOR, GiovanniDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:I shall compare two views of legal concepts: as nodes in inferential nets and as categories in an ontology
(a conceptual architecture). Firstly, I shall introduce the inferential approach, consider its implications,
and ...
Title:New Challenges for the Assessment of Fairness in a Common Market
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SMITH, Viktor; OHM RØRDAM, Mette; CLEMENT, Jesper; GABRIELSEN, Gorm; GLÖCKNER, Jochen; MØGELVANGHANSEN, Peter; ROGOWSKI, Marcin; SORENSEN, Henrik Selsoe; SMITH, Viktor; TRZASKOWSKI, JanDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW
Title:New Frontiers in the Legal Structure and Legislation of Social Enterprises in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Author(s):CAFAGGI, Fabrizio; IAMICELI, PaolaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper aims at presenting and discussing policy issues regarding the legal structure
and legislation of the social enterprise through the lenses of recent law reforms in
Europe. The legislation of seven countries is ...
Title:New Governance and the Transformation of European Law: The Case of the Open Method Coordination for Social Inclusion
Author(s):DAWSON, MarkDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Harvard European Law Working PapersAbstract:From initially defining new governance processes as external, or opposed to, 'traditional' forms of EU law, a number of academic scholars have begun to argue that processes like the OMC can be seen as indicative of a broader ...
Title:New Licensing Models for Online Music Services in the European Union
Author(s):MAZZIOTTI, GiuseppeDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This paper examines the restructuring of online rights management that the E.U. Commission recently
imposed upon collecting societies and copyright holders in the online music sector in order to foster
the adoption of ...
Title:Ofcom’s Proposal to Regulate Access to Premium Television Content: Some Thoughts
Author(s):IBÁÑEZ COLOMO, PabloDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:In September 2008, Ofcom submitted a consultation document dealing with the regulation of access to premium television content in the UK. Ofcom’s proposal reflects some tensions in the electronic communications sector which ...
Title:On the Need to Regulate Competing Jurisdictions between International Courts and Tribunals
Author(s):LAVRANOS, NikolaosDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Competing jurisdiction is a relatively new but increasingly important phenomenon in international
law. The ongoing proliferation of international courts and tribunals results in a multiplication of
judgments and arbitral ...
Title:On Women and Legal Forms
Author(s):PETERSEN, HanneDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAW