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Zohar Efroni

Zohar Efroni

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Founder of Berlin-based eLaw legal consulting and associate at CBM International LLP, specializing in intellectual property, Internet and media law, published extensively on the interaction between law and technology, especially in the context of property rights in intangible assets. Zohar focuses also on matters of information policy, privacy and IP management. He has been a resident scholar and a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany. Zohar holds law degrees from Israel (LL.B.) and New York (LL.M. IP), as well as a legal Ph.D. (summa cum laude) with honors from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He is admitted to practice law in Israel, New York and Germany. Field: IP, law and technology SSRN author's page: http://ssrn.com/author=441748

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Google's New Adwording Policy in Europe

As of yesterday, Google’s new policy concerning registration of trademarks as keywords for triggering contextual advertisement in many European countries went i…

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The ECJ’s Ruling on Google Adwords

The closely watched battle over the use of trademarks as keywords for purpose of triggering advertisements on Google’s search result pages (AdWords) reached hig…

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Patent law goes to Hollywood

I have seen several posts (here, here, and also here) that discuss a recent patent infringement lawsuit filed late November to the DC District Court. Bloggers f…

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German Music Sampling Decision Translated

It was brought to my attention that the German high court decision on copyright and music sampling I had previously blogged on here received a fresh English tra…

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Paris in the Ninth Circuit

I simply could not resist sharing this one, for those who don’t check IPKat regularly. Apparently, transformativeness is not only a big deal in copyright fair u…

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A New Study on Privacy Online in Israel

Calls to better safeguard users' privacy online and improve protection of personal data on the Internet are commonplace. The concerns about privacy issues a…