Patent Cultures

Patent Cultures

Author: Graeme Gooday

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-07-07

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781108468886

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This book explores how dissimilar patent systems remain distinctive despite international efforts towards harmonization. The dominant historical account describes harmonization as ever-growing, with familiar milestones such as the Paris Convention (1883), the World Intellectual Property Organization's founding (1967), and the formation of current global institutions of patent governance. Yet throughout the modern period, countries fashioned their own mechanisms for fostering technological invention. Notwithstanding the harmonization project, diversity in patent cultures remains stubbornly persistent. No single comprehensive volume describes the comparative historical development of patent practices. Patent Cultures: Diversity and Harmonization in Historical Perspective seeks to fill this gap. Tracing national patenting from imperial expansion in the early nineteenth century to our time, this work asks fundamental questions about the limits of globalization, innovation's cultural dimension, and how historical context shapes patent policy. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the contested role of patents in the modern world.


Patent Politics

Patent Politics

Author: Shobita Parthasarathy

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2017-02-21

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 022643785X

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Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion


How to Write a Patent Application

How to Write a Patent Application

Author: Jeffrey G. Sheldon

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781402412950

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Stocked with drafting checklists and sample drafting language, documents and drawings, PLI's new Second Edition of How to Write a Patent Application helps you to get all the information from an inventor that is needed to prepare a solid patent application; claim an invention with sufficient breadth; claim an invention so that those elements that render the invention 'nonobivious' are clearly set forth in the claims; and claim an invention so that the PTO will issue a patent and its validity will be sustained by the courts.


Injunctions in Patent Law

Injunctions in Patent Law

Author: Jorge L. Contreras

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1108835619

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Explains how the tailoring of injunctions in patent law works in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Israel.


Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

Author: Andrew Gowers

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2006-12-06

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 0118404830

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This report examines the importance of intellectual property (IP), ranging from patents, copyright, design and trade marks, and whether in the age of globalization, digitization and increasing economic specialization it still creates incentives for innovation, without unduly limiting access to consumers and stifling further innovation. The report does recommend a radical overhaul of the system, with the review concentrating on three areas, and setting out the following recommendations: (i) strengthening enforcement of IP rights, whether through clamping down on piracy or trade in counterfeit goods; (ii) reducing costs of registering and litigating IP rights for businesses large and small; (iii) improving the balance and flexibility of IP rights to allow individuals, businesses and institutions to use content in ways consistent with the digital age.


Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

Intellectual Property Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

Author: Tanya Aplin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 939

ISBN-13: 019964330X

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This book provides a full and clear exposition of the fundamentals of intellectual property law in the UK. It combines excerpts from cases and a broad range of secondary works with insightful commentary from the authors which will situate the law within a wider international context.


The Copyright/Design Interface

The Copyright/Design Interface

Author: Estelle Derclaye

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13: 1108196020

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Protecting designs is complex and diverse; it involves deciding whether to protect them by design law, copyright law, or by both laws. A single protection may be under- or overprotective but two or more can be overprotective if there are no rules regulating the overlap. Legal systems in Europe and abroad have struggled to find the most adequate solution to this problem. This book traces the history of the design/copyright interface of fifteen countries, selected for their diversity in the way they dealt with the interface. It examines how these countries have coped with the problems engendered by the interface, the rules they applied to it over time and the reasons for legislative changes. This analysis reveals the most appropriate rules to regulate the interface at EU and global level and will appeal to academics, practising lawyers, judges, students and policymakers all over the world.