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A comparative analysis of trade secrets enforcement against ex-employees in the EU and USA, aimed at legislators and practitioners.
English summary: The reverse engineering of competitors' products has always been at the demarcation line between the protection of existing and the fostering of new innovations. Florian Schweyer defines this line in German and U.S. law for the areas of trade secrets, copyright, semiconductor topographies and patents. German description: Jedes Unternehmen mochte gerne wissen, welche Innovationen seine Konkurrenten erzeugen. Ein haufig hierfur beschrittener Weg ist die Analyse erworbener Konkurrenzprodukte, reverse engineering genannt. Hierdurch kann es selbst bei fehlender Patentierung gemass einer in Deutschland weit verbreiteten Auffassung zu einem rechtlichen Konflikt - namlich mit dem Sc...
The nature and content of intellectual property (IP) law, which is heavily contingent on the state of technology and on social and market developments, has always been subject to ongoing transitions. How those transitions are effected and the shape they take is crucial to the ability of IP to achieve its stated goals and provide the necessary climate for investment in creativity, innovation and brand differentiation. Yet the need for change can run headlong into a desire for coherence. A search for coherence tests the limits of the concept of “intellectual property,” is imperiled by overlaps between different IP regimes, and calls for a unifying normative theme. This volume assembles contributors from across IP and the globe to explore these questions, including whether coherence is desirable. It should be read by anyone interested in understanding the conceptual underpinnings of one of the most important and dynamic areas of the law.
Despite the economic relevance of trade secrets, their legal protection is not based on a robust theoretical corpus, and a large uncertainty remains regarding how they should be legally apprehended. The present book investigates the foundations of their legal protection by assessing its justifications and aims to define how this legal apprehension should be organized. The book starts with a comparative analysis of the US and the EU legal frameworks. It demonstrates the parentship existing between the two systems of protection and highlights that the incremental structuring of trade secrets protection has led to legal systems lacking broad-based conceptual foundations. In both legal orders, t...
In diesem Open-Access-Buch befasst sich Maximilian Vonthien mit den Fragen, wie lange Publisher von modernen digitalen Spielen den Support für die Online-Komponenten (Online-Mehrspielermodus und Online-DRM-Systeme) erbringen müssen und ob die Inhaber von Spielkopien nach dem Supportende die Nutzungsmöglichkeit eigenhändig wiederherstellen dürfen. Die Funktionstüchtigkeit beider Online-Komponenten ist vom Betrieb externer Server abhängig, die Spiele-Publisher betreiben und nach einiger Zeit abstellen, mit der Folge, dass die digitalen Spiele ganz oder zum Teil ihre Nutzungsmöglichkeit verlieren. In den Ausführungen des Autors werden auch die im Mai 2019 verabschiedete Richtlinie (EU) 2019/770 und die hochaktuelle Diskussion um die Bereitstellung digitaler Inhalte berücksichtigt.