TY  - BOOK
AU  - Takenaka,Toshiko
TI  - Patent law and theory: a handbook of contemporary research 
SN  - 9781845424138
AV  - K1505. P3745 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Patent laws and legislation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; On the economics of patent law and policy; F. Scott Kieff --; Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship; Ove Granstrand --; History of the patent system; John N. Adams --; A spanner in the works : or the spanner that works? Patents and the intellectual property system; Jeremy Phillips --; International treaties and patent law harmonization : today and beyond; Tomoko Miyamoto --; Examination procedure at the European Patent Office; Peter Watchorn --; Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office; Andrea Veronese --; Patent Office oppositions and patent invalidation in court : complements or substitutes?; Jay P. Kesan --; Trilateral cooperation : mutual exploitation of search and examination results among patent offices with a view to establishing a system of rationalized work-sharing; Shinjiro Ono --; 'Lost in translation' : the legal impact of patent translation errors on claim scope; Donald S. Chisum and Stacey J. Farmer --; Patenting software-related inventions in Europe; Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt and Heinz Goddar --; Utility and industrial applicability; Christopher Wadlow --; The novelty and priority provision under the United States first-to-file principle : a comparative law perspective; Toshiko Takenaka --; Back to the Graham factors : nonobviousness after KSR v. Teleflex; Elizabeth A. Richardson --; Extent of patent protection in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan : examination through the concept of 'person having ordinary skill in the art of the invention'; Toshiko Takenaka --; Direct and indirect patent infringement; Alison Firth --; The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension through other tools of intellectual property; Horst-Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank --; The exhaustion of patent owners' rights in the European Community; Thomas Hays --; Enabling research or unfair competition? De jure and de facto research use exceptions in major technology countries; Sean O'Connor --; Compulsory licensing under TRIPS and the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in eBay v. MercExchange; Christopher A. Cotropia --; Adequate compensation for patent infringement damages : a comparative study of damage measurements in Japan and the United States; Toshiko Takenaka --; Resolving patent disputes in a global economy; Rochelle C. Dreyfuss --; Challenges to the sui generis regime of pharmaceutical patents; John R. Thomas --; Current controversies concerning patent rights and public health in a world of international norms; Cynthia M. Ho --; Biotechnology patent pools and standards setting; Jorge A. Goldstein --; Patenting industry standards; Vincent F. Chiappetta
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