Eipr: Latest Issue

The May consequence of the monthly Sweet & Maxwell publication The European Intellectual Property Review has forthwith been published. It contains, equally usual, a alternative of gripping pieces. These include the following:

* Maciej Barczewski (University of Gdansk) writes on "International Frameworks for Legal Protection of Digital Rights Management Systems" -- a overnice twist, since people are too thus preoccupied amongst what it is that DRM systems protect that they don't focus on protection of the DRM systems themselves;

* Belinda Isaac too Rajiv Joshi (Morgan Cole, Oxford) review electrical flow illustration police line on the tests employed inwards establishing whether merchandise marks are "identical" to i another;

* Also on the discipline of merchandise marks, IPKat co-owner Ilanah Simon gives a amount analytical trouble concern human relationship of the fascinating conclusion of Electrocoin v Coinworld on infringement too validity on a close odd fix of facts;

* Angus McCulloch (University of Manchester) reviews recent cases that protect the correct of estimator game manufacturers to impose their pestilential "region locks" on estimator games.

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