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Joseph Straus. Professor of Law at the Universities of Munich and Ljubljana, Marshall B. Coyne Visiting Professor of International and Comparative Law at George Washington University School of Law, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Chairman of the Managing Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center, and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Straus received his Law-Diploma in 1962 from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and his Dr. jur. in 1968 from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. He received Habilitation in 1986 at the University of Ljubljana. He entered private practise from 1968 to 1977; since then he has been with the Max-Planck-Institute. He has taught European and German Patent Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität since 1990. He has been a Full Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Ljubljana since 1986.
Straus has been a visiting Professor of Law at Cornell Law School from 1989 to 1998, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at George Washington University School of Law from Spring 2001 to 2005, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2005. He is the author or co-author of more than 250 publications in the field of intellectual property law, especially in the field of the protection of biotechnological inventions. Straus has worked as a consultant to OECD, WIPO, UNCTAD, UNIDO, EC-Commission, World Bank, Scientific Services of the German Bundestag, and the German Government, as well as the European Parliament, the European Patent Office, the Swiss Government and the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property. He is the Vice-President of the German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright Law (GRUR) and the former President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). He served as Chair of the Programme Committee for the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) from 1997 to 2006, and Chair of the Intellectual Property Rights Committee of the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) from 1995 to 2006.
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Professor Straus's Munich Intellectual Property Law Center web page
Professor Straus's Max Plank Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition, and Tax Law web page
Ph. +49 (89) 24246 - 410
Email: joseph.straus@ip.mpg.de
Articles Order Public and Morality Issues in Patent Eligibility, in Common & Civil Law Traditions in Intellectual Property (Toshiko Takenaka ed., Edward Elgar Publishing forthcoming 2012), Joseph Straus. Patents, Utility Models, Plant Variety Protection and European Law, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law (Jurgen Basedow et al. eds., 2012), Joseph Straus. Veröffentlichte Euro-PCT-Anmeldung als fiktiver Stand der Technik nach Art. 54 (3) EPÜ und die Vernichtung von Amtsakten im Europäischen Patentamt, in Festschrift für Michael Loschelder, 353 (Willi Erdmann et al. eds., 2010), Joseph Straus. Zur Patentierung humaner embryonaler Stammzellen in Europa - Verwendet die Stammzellforschung menschliche Embryonen für industrielle oder kommerzielle Zwecke?, 2010 GRUR Int. 911, Joseph Straus. The Impact of the New World Order on Economic Development: The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights System, in Anuario Andino de Derechos Intelectuales No. 6, 59 (Baldo Kresalja Roselló ed., 2010), Joseph Straus. Patent Application: Obstacle for Innovation and Abuse of Dominant Position under Article 102 TFEU?, J. Eur. Competition L. & Prac. (2010), Joseph Straus. The Role of Digital Rights Management (DRM) Technology in Contemporary Copyright, in International Forum on the Centennial of Chinese Copyright Legislation (Thesis Compilation), 728 (Renmin University of China ed., 2010), Joseph Straus. Yinhang shichang weiji xia de shangyebanfa baohu he qita zhuanlifa wenti ("The Issues of Patent Law for the Protection of Business Methods in the Environment of Current Finance Crises"), in Research on Patent Law, 114 (Department of Treaty and Law, State Intellectual Property Office of People's Republic of China ed., 2009), Joseph Straus. Der Schutz von Geschäftsmethoden und andere patentrechtliche Fragestellungen im Lichte der aktuellen Finanzmarktkrise in Festschrift für Peter Mes zum 65. Geburtstag, (Michael Bergermann et al. eds., C.H. Beck) (2009), Joseph Straus. Europäisches Patent – Gemeinschaftspatent, Gebrauchsmusterrecht, Patentrecht, and Sortenschutz in Handwörterbuch des europäischen Privatrechts (Jürgen Basedow et al. eds., Mohr Siebeck) (2009), Joseph Straus. Gebietsbeschränkte Übertragung von Patenten und Patentportfolios und Erschöpfung des Patentrechts in der Europäischen Gemeinschaft in Schutz von Kreativität und Wettbewerb, Festschrift für Ullrich Loewenheim zum 75. Geburtstag (Reto Hilty et al. eds., C.H. Beck) (2009), Joseph Straus. Is the Patent System Fit to meet the needs of the "Triple Helix" Alliance? in 20 Jahre Europäische Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste, (Maria Eder ed., VDG Verlag) (2009), Joseph Straus. Patentanmeldung als Missbrauch der marktbeherrschenden Stellung nach Artikel 82 EGV?, 58 Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, Internationaler Teil 93 (2009), Joseph Straus. Priority Right, 35 U.S.C. § 102(d) Bar and the TRIPS Obligations of the USA: A Last Chance to Analyze the Issue, 91 J. Pat. & Trademark Off. Soc'y 375 (2009), Joseph Straus. Zur Rolle klinischer Versuche beim Zustandekommen von sog. Auswahlerfindungen in Patentrecht - Festschrift für Thomas Reimann zum 65. Geburtstag (Christian Osterrieth et al. eds., Carl Heymanns) (2009), Joseph Straus. How to Break the Deadlock Preventing a Fair and Rational Use of Biodiversity, 11 J. of World Intellectual Property 229 (2008), Joseph Straus.
Books Europäisches Patentübereinkommen - Münchner Gemeinschaftskommentar (Joseph Straus et al. eds., Carl Haymanns Verlag 2012). Leading Court Cases on European Intellectual Property (Joseph Straus & Peter Meier-Beck eds., 2011). Forward in Patentschutz und Stammzellforschung – Internationale und rechtsvergleichende Aspekte (Joseph Straus, Peter Ganea, and Yu-Cheol Shin eds., Springer) (2009), Joseph Straus. Introduction in Intellectual Property in Asia, Law, Economics, History and Politics, (Paul Goldstein and Joseph Straus eds., Springer) (2009), Paul Goldstein and Joseph Straus. Opening Address in The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy (Joseph Straus ed., Springer) (2009), Joseph Straus.
Other Publications
Presentations Joseph Straus presented the 2010 Rudolf Diesel Medal for Best Innovation Promotion to the European Patent Academy. "Munich: The City of IP and Innovation, from a Global Perspective," speech given by Joseph Straus at the Shanghai IP Forum on November 26, 2010. "The European Economy in the Financial Crisis", panel discussion co-chaired by Joseph Straus as part of a joint meeting between the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Russian Academy of Sciences on "What Does Russia Expect from Europe?" held in Salzburg, Austria on May 26-28, 2010. The Co-Existence of Plant Breeders’ Rights and Patents – Possible Solutions, presented at CIOPARA Plant Breeders' Rights Conference in Seville, Spain on March 3, 2010 by Joseph Straus. Patent Application as an Abuse of Dominant Market Position under Article 82 EC Treaty? presented at the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office in Ljubljana on January 14, 2010 by Joseph Straus.
Shorter Works
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News
On September 10, 2012, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate F. Scott Kieff as a Member of the United States International Trade Commission and Joshua D. Wright as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. On September 11, 2012, President Obama formally nominated Kieff and Wright; and the Senate confirmed Wright on January 1, 2013. Of the twelve people who have been members of our Project's research team, three have been nominated by a United States President to serve as a member of one of the independent government commisions focusing on the economy. In 2008, Troy A. Paredes, one of the Project's three founding investigators, was nominated by President George W. Bush as a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a post in which he presently serves. On January 3, 2013, Kieff's nomination, along with the others pending at the end of the Senate's term, were Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. On February 4, 2013, Kieff was re-nominated by President Obama.
On April 12, 2013 Richard A. Epstein debated the patent system with Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner at PatCon 3. Professor Epstein and Judge Posner were both featured speakers at the event, and the debate was covered at Patently-O and Written Description.
On October 24, 2012, Richard A. Epstein participated in a Federalist Society podcast on the topic "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?"
Stephen H. Haber and Aldo Musacchio were awarded the 2012 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Prize for their paper, "These are the 'Good Old Days': Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." The juried prize was awarded by the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY) and includes both a monetary award and publication of the paper by the CEEY.
" Patents are not the enemy", an article by Rod Cooper, Richard A. Epstein, and Stephen H. Haber, was published in the Chicago Tribune on August 15, 2012. (Free registration may be required to view the article online.)
Defining Ideas has published Patently Bad Policy, an essay by F. Scott Kieff on two upcoming Supreme Court patent cases, Hyatt v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus.
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