In the last two decades, accelerating technological progress, increasing economic globalization and the proliferation of international agreements have created new challenges for intellectual property law. In this collection of articles in honor of Professor Joseph Straus, more than 60 scholars and practitioners from the Americas, Asia and Europe provide legal, economic and policy perspectives on these challenges, with a particular focus on the challenges facing the modern patent system. Among the many topics addressed are the rapid development of specific technical fields such as biotechnology, the relationship of exclusive rights and competition, and the application of territorially limited IP laws in cross-border scenarios.
Author(s): Alexander Klicznik (auth.), Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, Martin J. Adelman, Robert Brauneis, Josef Drexl, Ralph Nack (eds.)
Series: MPI Studies on Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law 6
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 940
Tags: Commercial Law; European Law/Public International Law; Technology Management
Front Matter....Pages I-XXX
Prior Art from the Internet – A Potential Further Reason for Branching off a Utility Model from a Pending Patent Application....Pages 3-16
Registration without Examination: The Utility Model – A Useful Model?....Pages 17-29
Nonobviousness in German Patent Nullity Proceedings....Pages 31-48
Tax Strategy Patents – a Tax Lawyer's View....Pages 49-58
Protection of Scientific Creations under Patent and Copyright Law....Pages 59-65
Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System....Pages 67-73
The Priority Right in Patent Law – Use and Misuse?....Pages 75-84
The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?....Pages 87-98
Interpreting Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 99-114
A Study on Patent Compulsory License System in China – With Particular Reference to the Drafted 3rd Amendment to the Patent Law of the P.R. of China....Pages 115-126
Compulsory Licensing in Chinese Patent Law....Pages 127-133
Deceptive Conduct in the Patent World – A Case for US Antitrust and EU Competition Law?....Pages 137-156
Intellectual Property and Article 82 EC....Pages 157-175
Patents and Standards: The Antitrust Objection as a Defense in Patent Infringement Proceedings....Pages 177-194
The Inadequacies of the Section 271 (e)(1) Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court....Pages 197-208
Legal and Moral Reflections on Modern Biotechnology in Use & Misuse....Pages 209-227
Biotechnological Patenting and Innovation....Pages 229-241
Circumventing the Debate over State Policy and Property Rights: Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Law....Pages 243-254
Medical Use Claims: EPC 2000 and its Impact on Prosecution and Enforcement....Pages 255-274
Purpose and Limits of the Exclusion from Patentability of Medical Methods, Especially Diagnostic Methods....Pages 275-288
Special Legislation for Genetic Inventions – A Violation of Article 27(1) TRIPS?....Pages 289-304
Effects of the German Law on Employees' Inventions when Posting Employees Within the European Union....Pages 307-327
The Finnish 2006 Act on University Inventions – The Road Map to Identifying, Protecting and Utilizing Patentable Research Results....Pages 329-338
University Employee Inventions in Scandinavian and Finnish Law....Pages 339-351
Patent Trolls – Menace or Myth?....Pages 355-364
Liability 2.0 – Does the Internet environment require new standards for secondary liability? An overview of the current legal situation in Germany....Pages 365-377
Can China be Forced to Enforce IP Rights?....Pages 379-390
Trade Secrets and Patent Litigation....Pages 391-400
Reflections on the German Patent Litigation System....Pages 401-411
Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law by Notice of Violation, Rights of Consumers and Public Authorities – Comparative Evaluation of the German Status Quo....Pages 413-429
Two Major and Long-Lasting Patent Law Issues in Japan....Pages 431-444
Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration – Miscellaneous....Pages 445-461
Harmonizing Patent Infringement Damages: A Lesson from Japanese Experiences....Pages 463-480
The Inescapable Trap – A Case for Reconsideration?....Pages 481-493
Patents without Injunctions? – Trolls, Hold-ups, Ambushes, and Other Patent Warfare....Pages 495-517
(No) Freedom to Copy? Protection of Technical Features under Unfair Competition Law....Pages 521-533
Reverse Engineering: Unfair Competition or Catalyst for Innovation?....Pages 535-552
Negotiations on the Accession to the EU and the Harmonization of Intellectual Property with the acquis communautaire in Light of Globalization....Pages 555-564
Cross-border Injunctions in Patent Litigations Following the ECJ Decision in GAT v. LuK – Life after Death?....Pages 565-574
Contractual Liability of the Seller Due to Third Parties' Patents and Other IP Rights under German Law and the UN Convention on Sales Contracts....Pages 575-592
The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property....Pages 593-599
The Extraterritorial Reach of Patent Law....Pages 601-618
Synergies Created by International Cooperation in the Patent Area?....Pages 619-632
Patents in Europe and their Court – Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?....Pages 633-646
Patents and Developing Countries....Pages 647-651
Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy – Transit and Other ‘Free Zones’....Pages 653-673
The Spanish Patent System: Future Outlook....Pages 677-686
Incorporation of Patent Law into Part Four of the Russian Civil Code – A Structural Analysis....Pages 687-702
The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law....Pages 703-711
Some Remarks On the Third Revision Draft of the Chinese Patent Law....Pages 713-728
Some Critical Remarks Concerning the Act on the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia....Pages 729-747
Secrecy and the Evolution of an Early Patent System....Pages 751-761
Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in a World of Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 763-779
Woolly Lines in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 781-791
Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform: Flexibility's Achilles Heel....Pages 793-810
The Need for Climate Improvement in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 811-827
The Patent System – Not More than an Instrument of Public Policy....Pages 829-840
Patents and the Economic Incentive to Invent....Pages 841-852
The Patent Reform Act and Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions – A Correction of the Intellectual Property Policies?....Pages 853-871
The Impact of the Amendments of the Chinese Patent System on the Technological and Economic Progress in China....Pages 873-883
Back Matter....Pages 885-906
