Patents

Buch | Hardcover

656 Seiten

2010
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84844-217-7 (ISBN)

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Contemporary patent law continues to struggle with the most basic questions of patent system design. This indispensable collection of papers is vital for patent policy makers and serves as an excellent reference source for anyone with an interest in the topic.

Contemporary patent law continues to struggle with the most basic questions of patent system design. There is fierce debate over the power of the Patent Office, the role of the courts, incentives to guide the process and many other fundamental issues. Professor Miller brings together seminal articles which are acknowledged to be the proper foundations for these ongoing debates. This indispensable collection of papers is vital for patent policy makers and serves as an excellent reference source for anyone with an interest in the topic.

Edited by Joseph Scott Miller, University of Georgia, US

Contents:

Acknowledgements

IntroductionJoseph Scott Miller

PART IPATENT LAW HISTORY
1. P.J. Federico ([1936] 1990), ‘Operation of the Patent Act of 1790’
2. Steven Lubar (1991), ‘The Transformation of Antebellum Patent Law’
3. Mark D. Janis (2002), ‘Patent Abolitionism’
4. Edward C. Walterscheid (2005), ‘The Hotchkiss Unobviousness Standard: Early Judicial Activism in the Patent Law’

PART IINONOBVIOUSNESS
5. Edmund W. Kitch (1966), ‘Graham v. John Deere Co.: New Standards for Patents’
6. John F. Duffy (2008), ‘A Timing Approach to Patentability’

PART IIIECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PATENT LAW
7. Robert P. Merges and Richard R. Nelson (1990), ‘On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope’
8. Suzanne Scotchmer (1991), ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Cumulative Research and the Patent Law’
9. Edmund W. Kitch (1977), ‘The Nature and Function of the Patent System’
10. John F. Duffy (2004), ‘Rethinking the Prospect Theory of Patents’
11. Paul J. Heald (2005), ‘A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law’

PART IVTHE PATENABILITY OF SOFTWARE OR BUSINESS METHODS
12. Donald S. Chisum (1986), ‘The Patentability of Algorithms’
13. Allen Newell (1986), ‘Response: The Models Are Broken, The Models Are Broken!’
14.Thomas F. Cotter (2007), ‘A Burkean Perspective on Patent Eligibility’

PART VEMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PATENT LAW
15. Bronwyn H. Hall and Rosemarie Ham Ziedonis (2001), ‘The Patent Paradox Revisited: An Empirical Study of Patenting in the U.S. Semiconductor Industry, 1979–1995’
16. John R. Allison, Mark A. Lemley, Kimberly A. Moore and R. Derek Trunkey (2004), ‘Valuable Patents’

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2010
Reihe/Serie	Critical Concepts in Intellectual Property Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	1-84844-217-3 / 1848442173
ISBN-13	978-1-84844-217-7 / 9781848442177
Zustand	Neuware