Grounds of the Immaterial
Author: Niels van Dijk
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1786432501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book applies a novel conflict-based approach to the notions of ‘idea’, ‘concept’, ‘invention’ and ‘immateriality’ in the legal regime of intellectual property rights by turning to the adversarial legal practices in which they occur. In doing so, it provides extensive ethnographies of the courts and law firms, and tackles classical questions in legal doctrine about the immaterial nature of intellectual property rights from a thoroughly new perspective.