Intellectual property law

Copyright law is commonly described as carrying out a balancing act between the interests of authors or owners and those of the public.

The chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industries worldwide rely upon being able to patent inventions in order to protect investment in research and development, and to reap commercial rewards.

Edith Penrose is best known for The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, originally published in 1959, but she made major contributions in other fields, including patents, the oil industry, and development economics.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

This book is a research guide and bibliography of Parliamentary material, including the Old Scottish Parliament and the Old Irish Parliament, relating to patents and inventions from the early seventeenth century to 1976.

Ten years after the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force in the UK, the implementation and case law related to the Act remains contentious.

This book provides the first sustained and detailed account of the UPOV Convention and its key concepts and principles.

This comprehensive textbook provides a thoughtful introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in communication and media.

Are you ready if a client wishes to make a data protection claim, or needs to defend one?

This book is the first to provide a detailed and critical account of the emergence, development, and implementation of plant variety protection laws in Asian countries.

Examines different ways of understanding power in copyright, trademark and patent policy.

This book explores the relationship between intellectual property law and competition law, proposing a harmonious equilibrium in the dynamic landscape of evolving technology.

Ten years after the Human Genome Project's completion the life sciences stand in a moment of uncertainty, transition, and contestation.

This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century.

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media.

Intellectual property has become a dominant feature of our knowledge based economy in recent years, but how has property rights in intangible items developed?

Longlisted for the 2022 Inner Temple Main Book PrizeThe Right to be Forgotten is one of the most publicised areas of the GDPR and has received massive worldwide publicity following judicial and legal developments in Europe.

"e;Brazil is one of the world's most productive crucibles for new ideas and practices in innovation and collaboration.

This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property.

Although employers are required to pay compensation for employee inventions under the laws in many countries, existing legal literature has never critically examined whether such compensation actually gives employee inventors an incentive to invent as the legislature intends.

Im August 2024 trat mit der KI-VO ein umfassendes KI-Gesetz mit signifikanten Folgen für Zivilgesellschaft und Wirtschaft in Kraft.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

The world of law is a world of information.

As the publishing, film and music industries are dominated by Big Media conglomerates, there is often recourse to simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics.

The Palgrave Law Masters series is a long-established list of titles providing clear, concise and authoritative guides to the main subject areas, written by experienced and respected authors.

In der modernen IT-Landschaft sind Störungen unvermeidlich – doch wie können sie schnell und effizient behoben werden, ohne den Betrieb zu beeinträchtigen?

This book systematically studies the structural characteristics of IP laws and regimes of major Asian economies, including (but not always) China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand.

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This Handbook provides the first comprehensive review and synthesis of knowledge and new thinking on how food and food systems can be thought, interpreted and practiced around the old/new paradigms of commons and commoning.

Based on empirical research, this innovative book explores issues of performativity and authorship in the theatre world under copyright law and addresses several inter-connected questions: who is the author and first owner of a dramatic work?

Examines the relationships between intellectual property law, international exhibitions, advertising practices and the press during the ''long nineteenth century''.

"WingTsun" und "Rapunzel" – die Gemeinsamkeit dieser Zeichen ist nicht offensichtlich, liegt jedoch im Freihaltebedürfnis, das beiden als Begründung im Rahmen des Ausschlussgrunds des Gemeinguts zugrunde gelegt wird.

This comprehensive textbook identifies the emerging legal, policy, and ethical considerations associated with the collection, analysis, storage, and distribution of data that can be tied to location on Earth - otherwise known as "e;geospatial information.

A timely examination of fundamental issues in intellectual property (IP) law, with international perspectives looking across regimes, jurisdictions, disciplines and professions.

Modern Intellectual Property Law combines coverage of each intellectual property right granted for creations of the mind into a thoughtful, unified textbook.

Despite the apparent advantages of the internet, there is little debate that it facilitates intellectual property infringements, including infringements of trade mark rights.

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 came into force on 1 January 2005, creating a new statutory 'right to open government'.

Este libro pretende responder a la escasez de trabajos en espanol relacionados con el derecho internacional economico como rama del derecho internacional publico, cuya relevancia es cada vez mayor para la region latinoamericana en general y para Colombia en particular.

Ideas are the fuel of industry and the entertainment business.

Access to genetic resources and Benefit Sharing (ABS) has been promoted under the Convention on Biological Diversity, with the aim of combining biodiversity conservation goals with economic development.

International developments since the mid-1990s have signalled an awareness of the importance and validity of traditional knowledge and cultural property.

This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in law and technology, analysing the privacy issues raised by new data-driven technologies.