"Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World"
Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Vol. 6.
Ed. by Josef Drexl, Reto M. Hilty, Wolfgang Schön, Joseph Straus
Springer | 2009 | ISBN: 3540887430 | 866 pages | PDF | 6 Mb
Among the many issues addressed in this book are fundamental questions of substantive patent and utility model law
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• the relationship of exclusive rights;
• competition, focussing both on inherent limitations of intellectual property law;
• limitations imposed by competition laws;
• the rapid development of specific technical fields such as biotechnology;
• employee invention law;
• questions of procedure, enforcement and liability;
• the relationship of intellectual property law to unfair competition law;
• the need for territorially limited IP laws to address trans-national circumstances;
• recent developments in national IP and competition law;
• public policies in intellectual property law.