Comments on: Intellectual property law roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/12/intellectual-property-law-roundup-2/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:54:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Earl Wertheimer https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/12/intellectual-property-law-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-357013 Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:54:03 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73732#comment-357013 Re: Copyright over its code of law…

We have a similar problem in Canada with the CSA (Canadian Standards Association).
They publish a book of standards which becomes law.

Some of the contributors to these ‘standards’ are from the related industries.

In addition, the CSA charges a lot of money to ‘certify’ various products, to ensure their ‘compliance’ with their standards. They also charge members to ‘participate’ in this process.

One of the contributors also has been publishing an improved and cheaper copy of the standards book and is now being pursued in court by the CSA…

P.S.Knight has been fighting for years and has a web site chronicling their struggle.
https://www.restorecsa.com/

]]> By: This Time Goliath is Right https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/12/intellectual-property-law-roundup-2/comment-page-1/#comment-356978 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:47:21 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=73732#comment-356978 On the Coca-Cola twitter response, that’s actually not such a crazy thing, it’s just a pre-emptive strike against the ubiquitous “hey, that’s my idea! I sent it to Coke in 1987” lawsuits that come about when Coke puts out, say, acai-blackberry-guava Coke, and someone suggested it back in 1987.

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