What about other parts of the economy where IP law has a major impact?
In America, the Smart people work in finance, IP law, strategy consulting, VC, etc.
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Could they compete without the legal sanctuary IP law provides?
But there is a caveat emptor of sorts when it comes to filing patent according to intellectual property attorney Nicholas Wells of the law firm Wells IP Law.
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You might object that nobody is going to stop buying iPhones, other gadgets, and software that is defended with inefficiently aggressive use of IP law, so consumers have nothing to threaten.
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Florian Mueller, a German-based analyst in IP law who writes the FOSS Patents blog, thinks the court will probably keep the Galaxy Tab ban in place for Germany, but not for the rest of the E.
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That said, Thomson advises that Russia has been working more closely with U.S. law enforcement on IP crime issues and, presumably, sending a distinctly encouraging message to Congress.
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After deciding not to use any DRM to protect their IP, the developer instead hired a law firm to go after individual pirates directly.
And over time, as more of the Chinese economy gains its value from IP, then IP protections (in reality, not merely in the law) will grow stronger too.
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Patent-holding plaintiffs won 63% of all infringement cases in Dusseldorf between 2006 and 2009, according to recent research by the Global IP Project, a series of studies initiated by the law firm Finnegan.
While IP-based public safety gateways are still somewhat new and law enforcement tends to be conservative adopting unproven technologies, officials from companies manufacturing the products say initial responses have been positive.
The Myriad case is "an anatomy of old IP gone wrong", said Dr Gold, Professor of Intellectual Property Law at McGill University in Montreal.
If Congress ever decides that IP rights have swung too far in one direction, it can always rebalance them by changing the law, right?
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