Intellectual property law

Since the last edition of this book was published, numerous changes have occurred in the telecommunications sector, at a national, European, and international level.

Dev Gangjee considers the international legal rules which determine the protection of geographical brands such as Champagne.

This book addresses pressing questions concerning international trade regulation which have been raised by the Internet revolution.

This book investigates the institutionalized process, basic laws, and evolutionary trends of the patent system based on the analytical model of evolutionary theory and deploying a historical and comparative approach.

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement is so rampant in China that counterfeit goods - from general household merchandise, garments and media consumables to specialist products including pharmaceutical products and super computer chips - can be found in roadside stalls, markets, shops, department stores and even laboratory of leading universities.

In the new 'knowledge-intensive economies' Intellectual assets increasingly play a key part on balance sheets.

Competition Law and Policy in the EU and UK provides a focused guide to the main provisions and policies at issue in the UK and EU, including topics such as anti-competitive agreements, abuse of dominance, mergers and Brexit.

Commercial Contracts for UK Companies: Formation to Exit helps business owners and directors to recognise key legal and compliance issues at an early stage, enriching the level of discourse between the business and its advisers.

Copyright enforcement is a very significant area in IPR, which protects the authors, performers and even computer programmers and performers.

Introducing the practice and procedure of trade marks in Ireland and at the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), this book steers clear of confusing legal jargon, explaining the main trade mark principles clearly and concisely.

Analyzes the ongoing evolution of smart contracts, based upon blockchain technology, from the perspective of existing legal frameworks.

Dramatic and controversial changes in the funding of science over the past two decades, towards its increasing commercialization, have stimulated a huge literature trying to set out an "e;economics of science"e;.

From its origins protecting the rights of authors and producers on a national level, copyright has expanded to become a semi-harmonised body of law with international reach.

A Practitioner's Guide to the Unified Patent Court and Unitary Patent provides practical and detailed advice on all aspects of the system for those using it.

First published in 1997, this volume explores how we live in a society which is developing beyond human experience and comprehension - fast.

Cybercrime continues to skyrocket but we are not combatting it effectively yet.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of European Patent Law.

In the first attempt to fully explore the controversial issues associated with the commercial application of nanotechnology, you'll find a thorough analysis of intellectual property and patents, financing and legal concerns, regulatory measures particularly in the field of nanomedicine, and environmental regulations.

This new edition is a comprehensive and practical guide to European patent law a 'ius commune'.

Sebastian Haunss demonstrates how intellectual property conflicts have brought about new cleavages in the knowledge society and new collective actors.

Hart Publishing is pleased to announce that it has recently become publisher of this prestigious and much valued work.

Access and Control in Digital Humanities explores a range of important questions about who controls data, who is permitted to reproduce or manipulate data, and what sorts of challenges digital humanists face in making their work accessible and useful.

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

This book examines the risks to freedom of expression, particularly in relation to the internet, as a result of regulation introduced in response to terrorist threats.

Demonstrates the enormous impact that the use of technology is having, and will continue to have, on arbitration.

Since the last edition of the book was published, there have been a number of important developments in the telecommunications industry.

There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property.

In our digital world, data is power.

Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers.

The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth.

Artificial intelligence (AI) now infiltrates our culture.

Leading experts from common law jurisdictions examine defamation and privacy, two major and interrelated issues for law and media.

"e;[T]his volume provides a wealth of information for all librarians dealing with copyright.

This book assesses the related rights of press publishers in the context of access to information and media pluralism.

This book takes the concept of piracy as a starting point to discuss the instability of property as a social construction and how this is spatially situated.

This book, arising from the collaboration between the IEEM in Macao and the Max Planck Institute in Munich, provides up-to-date information on developments in global intellectual property law and policy and their impact on regional economic and cultural development.

Riley and her group of expert contributors supply a unique set of worldwide case studies and policy analyses as guidance for indigenous communities and their partners, in attempting to protect their intellectual property.

Owned provides a legal analysis of the legal, social, and technological developments that have driven an erosion of property rights in the digital context.

Francis Gurry's renowned work, Breach of Confidence, published in 1984, was groundbreaking and invaluable in the field of intellectual property as the first text to synthesise the then burgeoning case law on breach of confidence into a systematic form.

In a world where your intellectual property is your most valuable asset, patents are becoming an essential tool for achieving and maintaining a competitive edge.

Die deutschen Verwertungsgesellschaften sind seit Inkrafttreten der Verwertungsgesellschaftenrichtlinie 2014 und des diese umsetzenden Verwertungsgesellschaftengesetzes (VGG) 2016 gehalten, ihre internen Mitgliedschafts- und Mitwirkungsstrukturen an die neue Gesetzeslage anzupassen.

This book provides an overview of developments in personalized medicine patenting and explores its normative implications to suggest policies to best regulate it.

An updated, comprehensive analysis of the European and US approaches to the exhaustion doctrine in the online and offline world.