A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making,using,or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. In most countries,patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce their rights.
A software patent is a patent on a piece of software,such as a computer program,libraries,user interface,or algorithm.
Linux Australia is the national,Australian Free and Open Source Software Community organisation. It was founded in 1997 and formally incorporated in New South Wales as a non-profit organisation in 1999. Linux Australia aims to represent Australian Free and Open Source Software communities and to support and collaborate with related groups,including Linux User Groups in Australia.
The 1967 Australian referendum occurred on 27 May 1967 under the Holt government. It contained three topics asked about in two questions,regarding the passage of two bills to alter the Australian Constitution.
The National University of Advanced Legal Studies (NUALS) / NLU Kochi is a public law school and a National Law University located in Kochi,India. It is the first and only National Law University (NLU) in the State of Kerala and is one of the 26 NLUs in India. Admissions to the university are done on the basis of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) which is one among the Top 10 hardest entrance examinations of India.
Pia Andrews,born 1979,is an open government leader and the Special Advisor,Digital &Client Data Workstream Lead for Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC).
Joshua Gans holds the Jeffrey Skoll Chair in Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management,University of Toronto. Until 2011,he was an economics professor at Melbourne Business School in Australia. His research focuses on competition policy and intellectual property protection. He is the author of several textbooks and policy books,as well as numerous articles in economics journals. He operates two blogs:one on economic policy,and another on economics and parenting.
Marjorie Heins is a First Amendment lawyer,writer and founder of the Free Expression Policy Project.
Rusty Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate,known for his work on the Linux kernel's networking subsystem and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
Jonathan Oxer is a computer programmer,Debian developer,author,entrepreneur,and Free Software activist. He lives in Melbourne,Australia with his wife and their two children.
Bradley Maxwell Selway was a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia from 2002 until his death.
Annabelle Claire Bennett is the Chancellor of Bond University and a former Judge of the Federal Court of Australia.
Suzanne Scotchmer was an American professor of law,economics and public policy at the University of California,Berkeley,and a noted author on many economic subjects. She earned her B.A. from University of Washington magna cum laude in 1970,her M.A. in statistics from UC Berkeley in 1979,and her PhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1980.
A biological patent is a patent on an invention in the field of biology that by law allows the patent holder to exclude others from making,using,selling,or importing the protected invention for a limited period of time. The scope and reach of biological patents vary among jurisdictions,and may include biological technology and products,genetically modified organisms and genetic material. The applicability of patents to substances and processes wholly or partially natural in origin is a subject of debate.
The Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property is a student-run law journal published at Chicago-Kent College of Law since 1999. It covers all aspects of intellectual property law,including patent law,trademark law,copyright law,and trade secrets. Journal issues are available on Westlaw,LexisNexis,and HeinOnline. The journal also has a blog presenting short summaries and updates on intellectual property law.
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) is a multi-institutional,multi-disciplinary research centre based at RMIT University in Melbourne,Australia.
Robin Feldman is a law professor,researcher,and author best known for her contributions to intellectual property and health care law. Feldman is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law at the UC Law San Francisco Feldman is a widely cited expert on intellectual property and health care law,particularly as it relates to the pharmaceutical industry,drug policy,and drug pricing.
Katherine "Kathi" Kelly Vidal is an American intellectual property lawyer and former engineer who serves as Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Amazon. com,Inc. v. Barnesandnoble. com,Inc.,337 F.3d 1024,was a court ruling at the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The ruling was an important early cyberlaw precedent on the matter of the technologies that enable e-commerce and whether such technologies are eligible for patent protection.
Ryan Abbott is a British-American academic,attorney,physician,writer,and public speaker who is currently Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law,as well as Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California,Los Angeles School of Medicine.
