ABSTRACT
The fi eld of intellectual property law, the result of the infl uence of the frequent and vast changes in technology in the last two decades, is in need of modern makeover. But such a makeover has not been readily following the pace of the changes themselves in any of the jurisdictions. This not only questions the fi ndings of the legal origins on the effi cient and constantly improving nature of the common law, but at the same time poses additional questions concerning how is it possible that the solutions enacted by the civil law system seem to be very similar to the ones found in the intellectual property law of the common law world.1
