Overview of Constraints on FLOW

Many kinds of intellectual capital restrictions exist that, depending on the context and circumstances, may have FLOW enabling and FLOW obstructing roles. (Consider the Venturi Effect as the literal case of a restriction that often serves as a convenient method of enabling flow, which usefully extends our FLOW metaphor.) Some restrictions only obstruct, of course.

Note: The sections below are preliminary and incomplete, and as a set they remain to be grouped into those which have both FLOW enabling and FLOW obstructing roles (with examples of each), and those which only obstruct FLOW. 

Copyright

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Copyright Session

Artificial Monopolies

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Artificial Monopoly Session

Trademarks

— Model Trademark Guidelines (written by and for free and open source software communities) http://modeltrademarkguidelines.org/index.php?title=Home:_Model_Trademark_Guidelines
— The Python Trademark Dispute http://opensource.com/law/13/2/python-trademark-dispute

Industrial Design

— Industrial Designs Compared to Copyrights http://www.capatents.com/industrial7b.html
— Industrial Design: Subject matter and scope http://www.bereskinparr.com/Section/About_Intellectual_Property/Industrial_Design
— Industrial Design Act http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/I-9/FullText.html

Trade Secrets

•  Case 1: See Paragraphs 37-42 in: Wayne John Stewart v. Her Majesty The Queen (R. v. Stewart, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 963)  http://scc.lexum.org/decisia-scc-csc/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/331/1/document.do

•  Case 2: United States of America v. Sergey Aleynikov http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/ea08355b-8152-43de-ad6f-7299ed2f176f/1/doc/11-1126_complete_opn.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/ea08355b-8152-43de-ad6f-7299ed2f176f/1/hilite/
  • Question in Goldman Sachs case: Can open-source software be stolen? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9137161/Question_in_Goldman_Sachs_case_Can_open_source_software_be_stolen_
  • Unlawful use of secret scientific material and unlawful duplication of computer related material http://blogs.findlaw.com/in_house/2013/05/vance-can-proceed-to-trial-against-former-goldman-sachs-programmer.html
  • Trade Secrets
  • Behavioural Risk Indicators of Malicious Insider Theft of Intellectual Property
    http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20111207_01

Non-Disclosure Clauses, Agreements or Compulsion

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Non-Compete Clauses, Agreements or Compulsion

• What Is The One True Android & How “Open” Is It? http://marketingland.com/what-is-the-one-true-android-and-how-open-is-it-21664  and  http://marketingland.com/google-acer-android-aliyun-21631
  — Open Handset Alliance http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
  — FairSearch https://www.fairsearch.org/
  — SkyHook http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/06/google-says-skyhooks-assertion-of-98.html

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Post-Sale Restraints

— Ethyl Gasoline Corp. v. United States, 309 U.S. 436 (1940) http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/309/436/case.html
— United States v. General Electric Co., 272 U.S. 476 (1926) http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/272/476/
— Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Elecs., Inc. http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/553/06-937/