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The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has presented a draft bill for the implementation of the new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market into national law. In a position paper, the Institute provides suggestions for the design of the planned Copyright Service Provider Act.
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The regional court Munich I is one of only 12 German courts responsible for patent matters, along with Mannheim and Düsseldorf. For the past ten years, the „Münchner Verfahren” (Munich Proceedings in Patent Litigation), which has now been evaluated in a research project at the Institute, has been an important factor for Munich as a patent location. Nearly 80 percent of the respondents believe that the introduction of the Munich Proceedings has considerably increased Munich’s attractiveness as a location for patent litigation. However, the survey also identified areas for a further development of the procedure.
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This summer, the Federal Republic of Germany appointed Josef Drexl as an expert in the newly founded Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). There, the Institute’s Managing Director is a member of the Data Governance Working Group.
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Dietmar Harhoff, Member of the new Supervisory Board, points out that the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation (SPRIND) will foster pioneering research with a wide range of application possibilities and promote radical innovations with outstanding potential to change the market with new products, services and value chains.
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In Brief
Humboldt Prize 2020 +++ Heiko Richter was awarded the Humboldt Prize 2020 for his dissertation “Information as Infrastructure – Towards a Competition- and Innovation-Oriented Framework for Public Sector Information”.
EPIP Young Scholar Award +++ Niccolò Galli received the EPIP Young Scholar Award in the category Law for his paper on Patent Aggregation in Europe.
Video Interview +++ acatech interview (in German) with Director Dietmar Harhoff on the topic “Corona as accelerator? How a virus changes us and our approach to technology” in video (2:35 min)
Student Research Assistants (m/f/d) +++ Every year, the department Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research hires on average ten research assistants on a rolling basis and employs up to 20 students. More
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Mobility is one of the most important sub-domains of the so-called “smart city”. Especially in the urban context, traditional forms of mobility have come under pressure due to new business models, alternative methods of transportation and the emergence of new market players. The book puts a spotlight on recent developments in smart urban mobility from a legal, regulatory and policy perspective. With contributions from experts in the field, it adds a critical perspective to the current legal dialogue.
Michèle Finck, Matthias Lamping, Valentina Moscon, Heiko Richter (Eds.)
Smart Urban Mobility – Law, Regulation, and Policy
MPI Studies on Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 29
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Humans interact with technology frequently and in a variety of settings. Their behavior in these interactions has attracted considerable research interest across several disciplines with sometimes little exchange and seemingly inconsistent findings. The authors review 118 experimental studies on human-machine interaction. They synthesize the evidence from different disciplines, suggest ways to reconcile inconsistencies, and discuss organizational and societal implications. Experiments show that humans seem willing to rely on algorithmic support, yet averse to fully ceding their decision authority. This needs to be considered when deliberating the benefits and risks of automation.
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New technical possibilities are constantly challenging copyright law and thus also inspire developments in EU law. Although Switzerland is not bound by EU law, it faces similar regulatory challenges. In April 2020, the most recent revision of its copyright act came into force there. Notwithstanding that the act often went its own way, EU law did not remain without influence. The outline of the book works out these interactions, establishes cross-references to the case law of the European Court of Justice, critically points out systemic inconsistencies and often refers to German doctrine in a comparative legal analysis.
Reto M. Hilty
Urheberrecht
Stämpflis juristische Lehrbücher, Stämpfli Verlag
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Kathrin Wernsdorf and coauthors examine this question by exploiting the staggered adoption of BITNET across U.S. universities in the 1980s. BITNET, an early version of the Internet, enabled e-mail-based knowledge exchange and collaboration among academics. After the adoption of BITNET, university-connected inventors increased patenting substantially. The effects are driven by collaborative patents by new inventor teams. The patents induced by ICT are exclusively science-related and stem from fields where knowledge can be codified easily. In contrast, the authors neither find an effect on patents not building on science nor on inventors unconnected to universities.
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By now, already 15 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Seminars have taken place exclusively online. The organizational processes have become established and the change brought not only challenges but also opportunities: The availability of renowned speakers at low cost, the possibility for geographically dispersed teams of authors to present together, more international visitors, and so forth. Seminar invitations are sent out via the mailing list: The topics, registration for interested persons, and more on the seminar page.
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The winter semester at the MIPLC has started - as usual at the beginning of October and with students from all over the world. This year’s 32 participants come from 21 countries - including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kazakhstan, and Uganda. Due to the current situation, it was not possible for everyone to come to Munich. So, the semester is taking place in hybrid form for the first time. Some of the students are present in Munich, while the others take part in the lectures online. Thanks to a new video conferencing system, students who follow lectures on their home computers can participate in discussions during the lecture.
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