Herbert Zech

Weizenbaum Institute Berlin

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Hardenbergstr. 32

Berlin, 10623

Germany

http://https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/

Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law

Prof. Dr. iur. Dipl.-Biol. / Chair of Civil Law, Technology Law and IT Law

Unter den Linden 6

Berlin, 10099

Germany

http://https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/ls/zch

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To Break Up or Regulate Big Tech? Avenues to Constrain Private Power in the DSA/DMA Package

Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition Research Paper No. 21-25
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2021
Heiko Richter, Marlene Straub, Erik Tuchtfeld, Ilaria Buri, Joris van Hoboken, Giovanni De Gregorio, Oreste Pollicino, Alexander Peukert, Naomi Appelman, João Pedro Quintais, Ronan Fahy, Herbert Zech, Catalina Goanta, Hannah Ruschemeier, Paddy Leerssen, Ruth Janal, Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Inge Graef, Jens-Uwe Franck, Martin Peitz, Rupprecht Podszun, Peter Georg Picht and Suzanne Vergnolle
Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, University of Oxford - University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute, Students, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon, Bocconi University - Department of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin, Utrecht University - Faculty of Law, FernUniversität in Hagen, University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Bayreuth University, Charles III University of Madrid, Tilburg Law School, University of Mannheim, University of Mannheim - Department of Economics, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Faculty of Law, University of Zurich - Institute of Law and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
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competition law, data act, data protection, data governance act, data regulation, digital services act, digital markets act, enforcement, fundamental rights, GDPR, platform regulation, private enforcement, private power

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Data as a Tradeable Commodity – Implications for Contract Law

Josef Drexl (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th EIPIN Congress: The New Data Economy between Data Ownership, Privacy and Safeguarding Competition, Edward Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 02 Nov 2017
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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data, property, contracts

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A Legal Framework for a Data Economy in the European Digital Single Market: Rights to Use Data

Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2016, Vol. 11, 460-470
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 22 Nov 2016
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Data Property, Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Big Data

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Information as Property

JIPITEC 6 (3) 2015, 192
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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intellectual property, semantic information, syntactic information, data

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Liability for Autonomous Systems: Tackling Specific Risks of Modern IT

Sebastian Lohsse/Reiner Schulze/Dirk Staudenmayer (eds.), Liability for Robotics and in the Internet of Things, Nomos/Hart (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Jun 2018
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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artificial intelligence, liability, technology, self-learning, artificial neural networks, law

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A Comprehensive Approach to Plant Variety Rights and Patents in the Field of Innovative Plants

Forthcoming in Christine Godt/Matthias Lamping (eds), In Honour of Hanns Ullrich (tbc), Springer 2021
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Oct 2020
Axel Metzger and Herbert Zech
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät and Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Materielle und immaterielle Güter - Die Güterzuweisungsfunktion des Privatrechts (Tangible and Intangible Goods - The Allocation Function of Property Law)

Forthcoming, in: Jens Eisfeld/Diethelm Klippel/Martin Löhnig (Hg.), Zivilrechtswissenschaft, Bausteine einer Zivilrechtstheorie
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Jun 2021
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Regulating AI: A Matrix for Gauging Impact and its Legal Implementation

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 12/2024
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 21 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 01 May 2024
Maurice Chiodo, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Dennis Müller, Lea Ossmann-Magiera and Herbert Zech
University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge Fellow, King's College Cambridge, RWTH Aachen University, Leiden University and Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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AI regulation, tort liability, EU AI Act, constant monitoring of AI, Small AI, Big AI, Digital Services Act

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Legal Aspects of Access to Human-Generated Data and Other Essential Inputs for AI Training

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 35/2024
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Dec 2024
John Burden, Maurice Chiodo, Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Lisa Markschies, Dennis Müller, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Rupprecht Podszun and Herbert Zech
University of Cambridge - Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge Fellow, King's College Cambridge, Humboldt University of Berlin, RWTH Aachen University, University of Cambridge - Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf - Faculty of Law and Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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model collapse, data contamination, artificial intelligence, AI governance, competition law, antitrust law, generative AI, large language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback

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Technizität im Patentrecht – Eine intra- und interdisziplinäre Analyse des Technikbegriffs (The Technical Character of an Invention in Patent Law - An Intra- and Interdisciplinary Analysis)

Forthcoming, in: Axel Metzger (Hg.), Festschrift für Theo Bodewig
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Nov 2017
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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patent, technology, invention

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Das Recht an der Erfindung und das Recht auf das Patent - Eine Analyse der Rechtsstellung des Erfinders in der jüngeren Rechtsprechung des BGH (Pre-patent Rights According to the German Federal Supreme Court)

Zeitschrift fuer Geistiges Eigentum (Intellectual Property Journal), Volume 4, Number 2, pp. 133-154, June 2012, Publisher & Copyright: Mohr Siebeck Tübingen, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1628/186723712801659310
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jun 2016
Diana Liebenau, Herbert Zech and Franz Hofmann
LMU - Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, Weizenbaum Institute Berlin and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
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Pre-Patent Rights, Pre-Filing Rights, Patentability, Inventor's Moral Right, Personality Rights, Recht Auf Das Patent, Recht an Der Erfindung, Steuervorrichtung

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Analysis of Court Decisions on Propagating Material and Harvested Material: Switzerland and European Union

Proceedings of the UPOV “Seminar on Propagating and Harvested Material in the Context of the UPOV Convention” (Geneva, Switzerland) held on October 24, 2016
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 09 May 2017
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Plant Variety Protection, Propagating Material, Harvested Material

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Biologie und Recht (insbesondere Technikrecht) (Biology and Law (Especially Technology Law))

Forthcoming in: Vieweg (ed.), 25 Jahre Institut für Recht und Technik (Köln: Carl Heymanns Verlag 2016)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 29 Nov 2016
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Biologie, Recht, Technikrecht, Life-Sciences-Recht, Interdisziplinarität, biology, jurisprudence, technology law, life sciences law

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Life Sciences and Intellectual Property: Technology Law Put to the Test

Zeitschrift für Geistiges Eigentum / Intellectual Property Journal 7, 1-14 (2015)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 03 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2016
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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Intellectual Property, Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Patents

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Nanotechnology – New Challenges for Patent Law?

(2009) 6:1 SCRIPTed 144
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2016
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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nanotechnology, patent, selection invention

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AI and patents: The role of inventorship

Forthcoming, in: Philipp Hacker/Brent Mittelstadt/Sarah Hammer/Andreas Engel (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Foundations and Regulation of Generative AI
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 17 Dec 2024
Herbert Zech
Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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patent law, AI-generated inven:ons, inventorship, (human) inventorship as a formal or substan:ve requirement, patent ownership, inventive step

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Erobert der EuGH das Patentrecht durch TRIPS? Anmerkung zu EuGH, Rechtssache C-414/11, 'Daiichi Sankyo u.a. v. DEMO' (Does the ECJ Conquer Substantive Patent Law Jurisdiction by Interpreting TRIPS? Case Note on Case C-414/11, 'Daiichi Sankyo v. DEMO')

sic! - Zeitschrift für Immaterialgüter-, Informations- und Wettbewerbsrecht, sic! 2014, 107-114
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 11 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2023
Diana Liebenau, Ralf Uhrich and Herbert Zech
LMU - Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, University of Basel - Faculty of Law and Weizenbaum Institute Berlin
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substantive patent law, exclusive ECJ jurisdiction, Art. 207 TFEU, Art. 207 AEUV, common commcercial policy, TRIPS, direct effect, unmittelbare Wirkung, Daiichi Sankyo, Merck Genéricos, UPC system

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Relevance of Risk-Benefit Considerations for Assessment of Defectiveness

Posted: 30 May 2019
Marta Santos Silva, Duncan Fairgrieve, Piotr Machnikowski, Jean-Sébastien Borghetti, Anne Keirse, Pedro del Olmo García, eleonora rajneri, Schmon Christoph, Vibe Ulfbeck, Vera Vallone and Herbert Zech
University of Minho - Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov), British Institute of International and Comparative Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Université Paris 2 Panthéon Assas, Utrecht University - School of Law, Charles III University of Madrid, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Weizenbaum Institute Berlin

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Defect, Safety Standard, Risk-Utility Test, Harmonisation, Product Liability Directive, US Law, Consumer Protection