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UNFAIR COMPETITION, A CHANGING POINT OF VIEW
The Spanish Unfair Competition Law is nowadays used as a tool to guarantee freedom of competitors and the fairness market behavior. Commercial Courts have changed its application; from the classical cases, related to imitation of products, to more complex behaviors....
CAN YOU REGISTER A COMPUTER LANGUAGE AS COPYRIGHT?
1.- LEGAL DISPUTES BETWEEN GOOGLE AND ORACLE GOOGLE and ORACLE have faced each other in a Court in San Francisco. They discussed about the Android programming language and Java. Oracle said that Android infringes two patents in Java, which it acquired from Sun...
ESPAÑA: UNA JURISDICCIÓN FISCAL FAVORABLE PARA LOS DERECHOS DE PROPIEDAD INTELECTUAL
En los últimos años, los gobiernos españoles han tratado de fomentar las actividades de valor añadido, mediante la introducción de medidas fiscales especiales relativas a los derechos de propiedad intelectual. En un intento por superar una economía basada...
MANAGER’S OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY IN SPAIN (I)
Spanish laws have always demanded responsibility or liability from managers of commercial firms. But this liability has become increasingly complicated by successive regulations wanting to increase the protection of the company, its shareholders, employees, creditors...
LA IMPORTANCIA DEL DISEÑO Y DE SU PROTECCIÓN COMO HERRAMIENTA COMERCIAL
Protección del diseño El diseño de un producto hace que el mismo sea más atractivo y le confiere un valor añadido desde la perspectiva comercial. Así, en múltiples ocasiones, los consumidores escogerán un producto en detrimento de otro por su apariencia estética, y de...
IP RIGHTS AT THE UNIVERSITY – WHO OWNS WHAT? (II)
IP rights at the University – Who owns what? (Part II) 4. Contracts In this matter, although several countries have passed laws regulating ownership of results of research generated in Universities/Public Research Centres, it is advisable to conclude contracts to...
