Intellectual Property category: 394 books
Intellectual Property and Information Control
Philosophic Foundations and Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Computer technology and the proliferation of digital networks have radically altered how ideas and information are gathered and manipulated and generated new conflicts between public use and private rights. These conflicts raise serious problems: Are abstract ideas and information proper subjects...
by Ole-Andreas Rognstad
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
For many years, there have been discussions about whether intellectual property (IP) is really property. The property concept, particularly when used in transnational and international concepts, remains somewhat elusive. Here, Ole-Andreas Rognstad comprehensively discusses the use of the property...
Intellectual Liberty
Natural Rights and Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Considering the steady increase in intellectual property rights in the last century, does it make sense to speak of ’user’s rights’ and can limitations on intellectual liberty be justified from a rights-based perspective? This book philosophically defends the importance of the public domain...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Intellectual property laws have become intricately entwined with discussions about globalization. This volume deals with the politics, economics and effects of global intellectual propertization. It provides essays covering key issues including the international relations of global intellectual propertization,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This volume explores the nature of intellectual property law by looking at particular disputes. All the cases gathered here aim to show the versatile and unstable character of a discipline still searching for landmarks. Each contribution offers an opportunity to raise questions about the narratives...
Health Technologies and International Intellectual Property Law
A Precautionary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency. This book develops a means for States to take advantage of the flexibilities of compulsory...
The Intellectual Property Handbook
A Practical Guide for Franchise, Business, and IP Counsel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Every business has IP questions. Where do you go for answers? Do I have an IP problem or not? Focusing on the key issues that affect business decisions, this book covers all major components of intellectual property offers practical guidance to a wide audience of non-IP specialists.
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by Mark J. Davison, Ann L. Monotti, Leanne Wiseman
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2011
Intellectual property law in Australia has changed dramatically in the last decade and continues to change. Developments in technology, the rise of the internet, the globalisation of trade and the increasing importance of 'superbrands' – trade marks with global appeal – have all affected the laws...
Intellectual Property Policy, Law and Administration in Africa
Exploring Continental and Sub-regional Co-operation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
This book examines the harmonisation of Intellectual Property (IP) policy, law and administration in Africa.
Two recent developments have brought this topic to the fore. The first is the escalation of long-standing efforts to establish a Pan-African Intellectual Property Organisation (PAIPO),...
Fashioning Intellectual Property
Exhibition, Advertising and the Press, 1789–1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Vigorous public debate about intellectual property has a long history. In this assessment of the shifting relationships between the law and the economic, social and cultural sources of creativity and innovation during the long-nineteenth century, Megan Richardson and Julian Thomas examine the 'fashioning'...
by David A. Gauntlett
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
This revised handbook for IP practitioners provides an easy-to-use reference for addressing clients' questions regarding insurance coverage. Lawyers will find information on the policy language carriers have used, how courts have interpreted this language in the most up-to-date cases, and common issues...
The Domestic Politics of Negotiating International Trade
Intellectual Property Rights in US-Colombia and US-Peru Free Trade Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The Domestic Politics of International Trade considers the issues surrounding intellectual property rights in international trade negotiations in order to examine the challenges posed to domestic policy-makers by the increasingly broad nature of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Throughout the book the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Are intellectual property rights a threat to autonomy, global justice, indigenous rights, access to lifesaving knowledge and medicines? The essays in this volume examine the justification of patents, copyrights and trademarks in light of the political and moral controversy over TRIPS (the Agreement...
The Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex
Overcoming Barriers to Innovation in Agricultural Genomics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016
Advances in agricultural genomics could help address pressing global issues, such as world hunger, by improving crop yield. However, overlap and conflict in intellectual property and biosafety regimes – known collectively as the “Intellectual Property–Regulatory Complex” – create significant...