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VOLUME 16	NUMBER 1	JANUARY 2011
CODEN: JIPRFG 16(1) 1-60(2011)		ISSN : 0971-7544
		e-ISSN : 0975-1076
CONTENTS
Articles
Celebrity Rights: Protection under IP Laws			7
Tabrez Ahmad and Satya Ranjan Swain
Accommodating Long Term Scientific Progress: Patent Prospects in the Pharmaceutical Industry			17
Nithya Anand
Is It Broadcast or Broadcasting?			23
M Sakthivel
Model for IP Protection based on an Empirical Study of Iranian Nanotechnology Companies			27
Sepehr Ghazinoory, Sadegh Abedi and Behnam Mashar
Opinion			35
TRIPS, WTO and IPR: Protection of Bioresources and Traditional Knowledge
M D Nair
Literature Review			38
IPR―General
●The TRIPS Agreement: Helping or hurting least developed countries’ access to essential pharmaceuticals?●The innovation–economic growth nexus: Global evidence ●Trade secrets in the IP strategies of entrepreneurs ● Enforcement, economics and estimates ● The impact of piracy on innovation in the presence of technological and market uncertainty ● IP, commercial needs and humanitarian benefits: Must there be a conflict? ● Does the protection of foreign IPR stimulate innovation in the US? ● IP valuation ● Innovation, imitation, and IPR with international capital movement ● Collusive and exclusive settlements of IP litigation ● Conviction or coercion? Peru on the road to TRIPS-plus ● On the methodology for quantifying innovations ● Multi-stakeholder partnerships for transfer of environmentally sound technologies
Patents			41
● Large-scale open innovation: Open source vs patent pools ● Patenting cryptographic technology ● A uniform framework for patent eligibility ● Rules for patents ● Patenting human genes: The Myriad controversy ● Concerted refusals to license IPR ● An unsettling development:The use of settlement related evidence for damages determinations in patent litigation ● A heuristic procedure to identify the most valuable chain of patent priority network ● Evergreening: A deceptive device in patent rights ● A rough set based approach to patent development with the consideration of resource allocation ● Stimulating energy-efficient innovations in the Dutch building sector: Empirical evidence from patent counts and policy lessons
Copyright and Trademark			45
● The impacts of the differences between UK and US copyright laws for sound recordings on musicians ● Fulfilling the copyright social justice promise: Digitizing textual information ● Digital piracy and firms’ strategic interactions: The effects of public copy protection and DRM similarity ● Parallel importation of copyright products in Taiwan: A struggle with international trade policy ● Copying, superstars, and artistic creation ● From music tracks to Google maps: Who owns computer-generated works? ● Copyright for engineered DNA: An idea whose time has come? ● Freedom of panorama: A comparative look at the right to create derivative works in public spaces ● Counterfeit fashion: The interplay between copyright and trademark law in original fashion designs and designer knockoffs ● Free speech and international obligations to protect trademarks
IPR News
IPR News—General			49
● Biodiversity welcomes Nagoya Protocol ● US trade representative finds fault with India, China intellectual property regimes ● IPR trials of top MNCs on the rise in China ● GI registration for Kundan Meena ● Stornoway black pudding to get protected GI status
Patent News			50
● USPTO pilot program ● UK government urges EC to revisit single patent plans ● Detroit, Michigan announced as first regional patent office ● Google signs deal to translate European patents ● Patent fight erupts over Kakadu plum ● China on patents overdrive ● Apex court dismisses Bayer's appeal in patent-linkage case ● Diagnostic tests can be patented, rules US Court ● Natco Pharma seeks compulsory licence for copy of Pfizer drug
Copyright and Trademark News			53
● Copyright and wrongs ● Lankan curry beats burger giant McDonalds in trademark battle ● Court grants injunction against two companies for infringing trademark of Ashok Leyland
Key Patents			54
● Apple patents glasses-less 3D projection ● Reality mobile’s first patent award ● Power efficiency's revolutionary e-save technology granted patent ● Patent for biomolecular interaction identification methods
Book Review			56
Intellectual Property and Human Rights- A Paradox
Edited by Willem Grosheide
Understanding Designs Act
Srikanth Venkatraman