ABSTRACT
This article offers the legal profession a method to effectuate on behalf of authors, designers, or inventors who are residents of Louisiana (or for Louisiana transactions) the rights recognized by federal law on intellectual property (IP) and unfair competition by activating the civil law on incorporeal things. Additionally, it offers a way to enhance the civil law practitioners’ stock of solutions with the regular notions of property, contracts, and torts in IP and unfair competition law for fascinating results. Also, it enables civil law academia to teach IP and unfair competition law through regular courses such as property, contracts, and torts and cease to label them as special or sui generis fields of the law … (more)
Ricardo Bethencourt and Aniceto Masferrer, ‘Developing the Civil Law of Incorporeal Things’, 12 Journal of Civil Law Studies (2019).
First posted 2019-10-10 07:22:19
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