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Research handbook on patent law and theory [electronic resource] / edited by Toshiko Takenaka (Washington Research Foundation/W. Hunter Simpson Professor of Technology Law, University of Washington, School of Law and Professor of Law, Keio Law School, Of Counsel, Seed IP Law Group, US)

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This significantly updated second edition of the Research Handbook on Patent Law and Theory provides comprehensive coverage of new research for patent protection in three major jurisdictions: the United States, Europe and Japan. Leading patent scholars and practitioners provide an innovative compara...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Elgar)
Other Authors: Takenaka, Toshiko (Editor)
Other title:Elgar online.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Research handbooks in intellectual property.
Subjects:
Patent laws and legislation > United States.
Patent laws and legislation > Europe.
Patent laws and legislation > Japan.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents: Part I Foundation
  • 1. History of the patent system / John N. Adams
  • 2. International treaties and patent law harmonization: today and beyond / Tomoko Miyamoto
  • 3. Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship / Ove Granstrand
  • Part II Examination procedure
  • 4. Trilateral cooperation - mutual exploitation of search and examination results among patent offices - has been evolving into Global Cooperation as in the case of IP5 Offices / Shinjiro Ono
  • 5. Patenting software-related inventions in Europe / Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt, and Heinz Goddar
  • 6. Patenting inventions in medical sciences / Jan B. Krauss
  • 7. A comparative approach to the inventive step / Amy L. Landers
  • 8. The Lilly written description requirement: a doctrinal 'wild card' of uncertain effect / Christopher M. Holman
  • Part III Patent enforcement
  • 9. Claim construction under U.S. and German patent acts: wording used in the claims and the invention disclosed in the specification / Toshiko Takenaka and Christof Karl
  • 10. The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension through other tools of intellectual property / Horst Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank
  • 11. Patent enforcement in Germany / Tilman Müller-Stoy
  • 12. The theory and practice of patent damages in Japan and the U.S. - explaining the differences that remain / Christoph Rademacher
  • 13. Resolving patent disputes in a global economy / Rochelle Dreyfuss
  • 14. Specialized IP courts: the Unified Patent Court (UPC) / Stefan Luginbuehl and Dieter Stauder
  • Part IV Current issues
  • 15. Pharmaceutical patents / John Thomas
  • 16. Patent litigation reform in the United States / Greg Reilly
  • 17. Design patent-utility patent intersection / Xuan Thao Nguyen
  • 18. Current controversies concerning patent rights and public health in a world of international norms / Cynthia Ho
  • Index.

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