Globalisation, E-learning and the Monetary Pressure on the Educational Field

Globalisation, this is my thesis, change first the trade of goods and services, produce a mercantilist pressure on different political fields and affect finally as a consequence effectively our normative comprehension of education. As states will be more and more under pressure to compete on an economic basis against each other they will rank decisions which generate jobs higher than any thing else. Also Education policy is changing its focus. E-learning is a driving force to bring together education, trade of ICT equipment, trade of educational used content and trade of study degrees and to merge the different objectives into effective distribution of knowledge and maximising profits.

GERMANY: Creating New Property Rights on the Basis of General Legal Concepts - Without Limits?

In two cases recently decided by two different senates of the German Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH), the following issue was raised: To what extent can the filming of sports events organized by someone else, on the one hand, and the photographing of someone else’s physical property, on the other hand, be legally controlled by the organizer of the sports event and the owner of the property respectively? In its “Hartplatzhelden.de” decision, the first senate of the Federal Supreme Court concluded that the act of filming sports events does not constitute an act of unfair competition as such, and hence is allowed even without the consent of the organizer of the sports event in question. However, the fifth senate, in its “Prussian gardens and parks” decision, held that photographing someone else’s property is subject to the consent of the owner of the grounds, provided the photographs are taken from a spot situated on the owner’s property. In spite of their different outcomes, the two cases do not necessarily contradict each other. Rather, read together, they may well lead to an unwanted – and unjustified – extension of exclusive protection, thus creating a new “organizer’s” IP right.

Konstruktive Gestaltung eines bioinspirierten Kommissionier-Greifers für intralogistische Handhabungsaufgaben

In diesem Beitrag wird ein neuartiger biologisch inspirierter Universalgreifer beschrieben. Dieser soll in einem automatisierten Kommissionier-Szenario selbstständig Waren aus Kisten greifen, anheben und an anderer Stelle ablegen um somit das manuelle Kommissionieren von Hand zu substituieren. Auf dem Weg zu einer ausgereiften Konstruktion werden zahlreiche Fragestellungen zur Gestaltung und Anordnung der Finger und deren Antrieb gelöst. Ein für diesen Anwendungsfall entwickelter Biegeaktor wird zur Krümmung der Finger eingesetzt und bietet als Alleinstellungsmerkmal ein nahezu verschleißfreies Gelenk bei einem sehr einfachen konstruktiven Aufbau.