Biotechnology and Software Patent Law

A Comparative Review of New Developments

Emanuela Arezzo, Gustavo Ghidini (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2011
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84980-040-2 (ISBN)

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The new millennium has carried several challenges for patent law. This up-to-date book provides readers with an important overview of the most critical issues patent law is still facing today at the beginning of the twenty first century, on both sides of the Atlantic.

New technological sectors have emerged, each one with its own features with regard to innovation process and pace. From the most controversial cases in biotech to the most recent decisions in the field of software and business methods patent, patent law has tried to stretch its boundaries in a way to accommodate such new and controversial subject matters into its realm.

Biotechnology and Software Patent Law will strongly appeal to postgraduate students specializing in IP law, international law, commercial and business law, competition law as well as IP scholars, academics and lawyers.

Contributors: S.D. Anderman, R.B. Bakels, S.J.R. Bostyn, D.L. Burk, V. Di Cataldo, V. Falce, C. Geiger, R.M. Hilty, C.M. Holman, M.A. Lemley, A. Ottolia, J. Pila, J.R. Thomas, P.L.C. Torremans

Edited by Emanuela Arezzo, Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy and Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy

Contents:

Introduction
Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini

PART I: GENERAL THEMES IN PATENT LAW
1. Tailoring Patents to Different Industries
Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley

2. Innovation in the New Technological Industries: Looking for a Consistent Cooperative Model
Valeria Falce

3. The Future of the Requirement for an Invention: Inherent Patentability as a Pre- and Post-Patent Determinant
Justine Pila

4. The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?
Vincenzo Di Cataldo

5. Patents and Competition Law: Some Features of the New Interface
Steven D. Anderman

PART II: EMERGING THEMES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
6. Are Software Patents Something Special?
Reinier B. Bakels

7. Towards a New Instrument of Protection for Software in the EU? Learning the Lessons from the Harmonization Failure of Software Patentability
Reto M. Hilty and Christophe Geiger

8. Patent Governance in the United States: Lessons from Bilski v. Kappos
John R. Thomas

PART III: EMERGING THEMES IN THE BIOTECH INDUSTRIES
9. A Decade After the Birth of the Biotech Directive: Was it Worth the Trouble?
Sven J.R. Bostyn

10. Gene Patents Under Fire: Weighing the Costs and Benefits
Christopher M. Holman

11. Patentability of Human Stem Cell or Synthetic Biology Based Inventions
Paul L.C. Torremans

12. Moral Limits to Biotech Patents in Europe: A Quest for Higher Harmonization
Andrea Ottolia

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2011
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Patent Law series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-84980-040-5 / 1849800405
ISBN-13	978-1-84980-040-2 / 9781849800402
Zustand	Neuware