In Amsterdam, squatters like to occupy empty buildings without permission from the owners. In the virtual world, cybersquatters “occupy” unused web-addresses, which morally “belong” to someone else. They register domain names that include valuable phrases, e.g. names of well-known artists, companies or products. The cybersquatter then tries to sell the web-address to the person or […]
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Often Polish subsidiaries of international groups operate in Poland using intellectual property created and owned by the parent company or other group members. This usually is either a trademark, a patent, a copyrighted work (e.g. software), know-how or a combination thereof. From time to time directors of such subsidiaries should ask themselves the question, how […]
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At the beginning of the software industry, the legal protection of computer programs was an open issue. The patent system perceived computer programs as mere algorithms, which do not satisfy a definition of invention, i.e. a solution to a technical problem. There was a general tendency to exclude programs for “computable machines” from patentability. On […]
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