Intellectual Property, Human Rights and Competition

Access to Essential Innovation and Technology

Abbe E.L. Brown (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2012
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-85793-496-3 (ISBN)

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This detailed book explores the relationship between intellectual property, competition and human rights. It considers the extent to which they can and must be combined by decision makers, and how this approach can foster innovation in key areas for society such as pharmaceutical drugs, communications software and technology to combat climate change.The author argues that these three legal fields are strongly interrelated and that they can be used to identify essential technologies. She demonstrates that in some cases, combining the fields can deliver new bases for wider access to be provided to technologies. The solutions developed are strongly based on existing laws, with a focus on the UK and the EU and the structures of existing forms of dispute resolution, including the European Court of Human Rights and the dispute settlement bodies of the World Trade Organization. The final chapters also suggest opportunities for further engagement at international policy and activist level, new approaches to IP and its treaties, and wider adoption of the proposals.

This timely book will appeal to academics and practitioners in IP, competition and human rights, as well as innovation-related industry groups and access to knowledge, health and environment activists.

Abbe E.L. Brown, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, UK

Contents: Foreword by Charlotte Waelde 1. ‘The Essence of Intellectual Property Rights is the Right to Exclude’ 2. Problem and Solution? Some Introductions 3. Existing Links and Opportunities: Human Rights, Competition and Essential Technologies 4. An Existing Solution? The Judicial and Regulatory Interface between the Three Fields 5. Using Human Rights 6. Market Definition and Abuse: New Arguments for Access 7. Wider Perspectives 8. Conclusions Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.11.2012
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht ► Urheberrecht
ISBN-10	0-85793-496-1 / 0857934961
ISBN-13	978-0-85793-496-3 / 9780857934963
Zustand	Neuware