Patent law in global perspective /

This text addresses critical and timely questions in patent law from a truly global perspective, with contributions from leading patent law scholars from various countries and various disciplines. The rich scholarship featured reflects on a wide range of perspectives, offering insights and new appro...

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Other Authors: Okediji, Ruth L., (Editor), Bagley, Margo A., 1963- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Table of Contents:
  • Intellectual property lawmaking, global governance, and emerging economics / Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
  • US executive branch policy, global and domestic / Arti K. Rai
  • Transnational legal ordering and access to medicines / Gregory Shaffer and Susan K. Sell
  • The limits of substantive patent law harmonization / Graham Dutfield
  • Patent barbarians at the gate : the who, what, when, where, why and how of US patent subject matter eligibility disputes / Margo A. Bagley
  • Patent law's problem children : software and biotechnology in transatlantic context / Dan L. Burk
  • Patenting plants : a comparative synthesis / Mark D. Janis
  • Enablement and written description / Matthew Fisher
  • Indigenous developmental networks and the non-developmental state : making intellectual property work for indigenous people without patents / Peter Drahos
  • Observing the patent system in social and political perspective : a case study of Europe / Shobita Parthasarathy and Alexis Walker
  • Toward a theory of regulatory exclusivities / John R. Thomas
  • A false sense of security offered by zero-price liability rules? : research exceptions in the United States, Europe, and Japan in an open innovative context / Esther van Zimmeren and Geertrui van Overwalle
  • Exhaustion and patent rights / Christopher Heath
  • A new approach to the compulsory license conundrum / Cynthia M. Ho
  • Balancing "incentive to innovate" and "protection of competition" : an African perspective on intellectual property rights and competition law / Mor Bakhoum
  • Patentability criteria as TRIPS flexibilities : the example of China and India / Daniel J. Gervais
  • Proof of progress : the role of the inventive step/non-obviousness standard in the Indian Patent Office / Feroz Ali Khader and Srividhya Ragavan
  • Pharmaceutical patent enforcement : a development perspective / Shamnad Basheer, Jay Sanklecha and Prakruthi Gowda
  • A research agenda for the comparative law and economics of patent resources / Thomas F. Cotter
  • The rule of patent law (RPL) as established by the TRIPS Agreement and its role of promoting trade rather than invention / Nuno Pires de Carvalho.