The Sci-Hub case revolves around the controversy between open access to knowledge and intellectual property (‘IP’) rights of the authors. Founded in 2011, it provides free access to millions of articles, bypassing paywalls put on by the publishers. Thereby, challenging the...Read More
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The starting point for a holistic assessment of the patentability standard in Malaysia must naturally be the law itself. While the Patents Act and Regulations do not contain any specific provisions for computer-related inventions, there are general requirements that are pertinent. These...Read More
In the recent celebrated case of Google vs. Oracle, the US Supreme Court found Google’s use of Java Application programming interface (API packages) a fair use. In 2018, the Federal Circuit ruled in favor of Oracle, to which Google appealed to this decision in the Supreme Court in 2019. The Court agreed in 2019 to consider questions such as the copyright protection to the software interface and Google use of so...Read More
Copyright protects the literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic work, cinematographic work, and sound recordings. This form of intellectual property gives an absolute right to the creator and the author for their work and any infringement can be claimed. Literary works also include computer programs, tables, and compilations including computer databases which may be expressed in %...Read More
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Chinese Smartphone maker brand, Xiaomi faced an embarrassment recently as the company was caught copying artwork of artist Peter Tarka, famous for 3D Art. The image copied by Xiaomi was put on their Spanish website to promote their new range of home products. It ...Read More
Open Source Software (OSS) is a kind of software with source code that can be modified, enhanced, and inspected by ANYONE. In the case of an OSS, a person may alter how the software works or improve it by adding features or fixing parts that do not work properly, by modifyin...Read More
After the Toblerone chocolate war with Poundland, there is another matter of copying the design of chocolate. Hotel Chocolat produced its flagship chocolates ‘Slab’ which were alleged to be copied by Waitrose another chocolate selling company. A series of tweets suggesting that the selling of similar-looking chocolates created confusion in the minds of the consumers and made the consumers think that Hotel Chocolat is producing choco...Read More