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For-Profit Public Enforcement [PDF]

, 2014
This Article investigates an important yet undertheorized phenomenon: financial incentives in public enforcement. Each year, public enforcers assess billions of dollars in penalties and other financial sanctions for violations of state and federal law ...
Lemos, Margaret H., Minzner, Max
core   +1 more source

Influence and convergence to higher standards: The dual examination of pharmaceutical patents in Brazil

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 2001 and 2021, pharmaceutical patent applications filed in Brazil were examined by the patent office (INPI) and the national health regulator (Anvisa). This paper investigates how health regulators can contribute to patent examination by shifting the set of criteria cited as grounds for 2589 negative decisions from both entities ...
Eduardo Mercadante
wiley   +1 more source

Relationship Visibility in Spaces of Networked Individualism: How Couples Navigate Contrasting Injunctive Norms of Visual Communication

Forum: Qualitative Social Research
Visual communication of romantic partners on social network sites (SNSs) is tied to normative discourses addressing different reference groups. By sharing pictures of the couple (relationship visibility), partners legitimize their romantic bond, increase
Federico Lucchesi, Katharina Lobinger
doaj   +1 more source

Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

Association of fertility-related attitudes and norms among adolescent wives, husbands, and mothers-in-law with wives’ fertility desires in rural Niger

Global Public Health
Niger has the world's highest fertility rate, with about seven children per woman, significantly impacting maternal and child health. This study examines how fertility-related attitudes and social norms affect adolescent wives’ (AWs) fertility desires in
Shweta Tomar, Jay Silverman, Hachimou Amani, Kevin Iredell, Kadidiatou Boubacar Moussa, Abdoul-Moumouni Nouhou, Jennifer Gayles, Elizabeth Reed, Susan Kiene, Rebecka Lundgren, Holly Baker   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enforcing intellectual property rights in metaverse gaming platforms: The next steps for the EU's metaverse agenda

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract This article delineates a comprehensive framework for the achievement of effective metaverse governance that reflects the EU's current metaverse agenda and promotes respect for intellectual property rights. To do so, this article follows a two‐strand methodology. It engages in a doctrinal legal analysis and a policy‐oriented assessment.
Zoi Krokida, Ioanna Lapatoura
wiley   +1 more source

Roles of attitudes and injunctive norms in decisional conflict and disclosure following receipt of genome sequencing results. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med, 2020
Reid AE, Ferrer RA, Kadirvel S, Biesecker BB, Lewis KL, Biesecker LG, Klein WMP.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lost in translation? Injunctions and patent enforcement in a transatlantic perspective

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract As the European Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRED) marked the twentieth anniversary of its adoption, renewed calls have emerged for its revision, aimed at fostering a more effective application of the principle of proportionality in patent enforcement.
Giuseppe Colangelo
wiley   +1 more source

Remote and On‐Site Working During the Covid‐19 Pandemic: (Re)Configuring Work Organisation in Border Control Services and the Nuclear Industry

New Technology, Work and Employment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the COVID‐19 pandemic, the nuclear and border control services had to reorganise their work, both on‐site and remotely, to continue their activities. Whereas employees came to work at the power plants and border posts every day, the health rules introduced by the public authorities and those relating to the lockdown of populations ...
Laure Bonnaud, Tania Navarro Rodríguez
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mr. Preacherman, Should We Love Thy Neighbour?’: On Moral Understanding and Moral Change in Deep Moral Disagreements

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines what it means to respond, or fail to respond, to the individual realities of others in cases of deep moral disagreement concerning trans‐exclusionary sentiments. Building on a limitation we identify in Daniele Moyal‐Sharrock and Constantine Sandis' account of ‘bedrock gender’, we consider two readings of Kendrick Lamar's ...
Ryan Manhire, Salla Aldrin Salskov
wiley   +1 more source