Research handbook on patent law and theory / edited by Toshiko Takenaka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takenaka, Toshiko, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Research handbooks in intellectual property.

Research handbooks in intellectual property series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Patent laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (506 pages).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

This significantly updated second edition of the Research Handbook on Patent Law and Theory provides comprehensive coverage of new research for patent protection in three major jurisdictions: the United States, Europe and Japan. Leading patent scholars and practitioners provide an innovative comparative analysis of fundamental issues such as patentability, examination procedure and the scope of patent protection, with current issues such as patent protection for industry standards, computer software and business methods. Updates to this second edition reflect on the dramatic changes that have taken place in the US Patent System since the first edition, including the American Invents Act that has introduced the first-inventor-to-file policy and post-issuance proceedings to challenge validity. Current topics such as the Unified Patent Court, patent litigation updates reform in the US, design patents and patent inventions in medical science are also addressed. Providing a strong scholarly foundation, as well as useful tips for practitioners to protect their intellectual assets in technologies effectively in the global market, this Research Handbook will be of great interest to legal scholars and students, as well as lawyers and patent attorneys.

Contents:

Contents: Part I Foundation

1. History of the patent system / John N. Adams

2. International treaties and patent law harmonization: today and beyond / Tomoko Miyamoto

3. Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship / Ove Granstrand

Part II Examination procedure

4. Trilateral cooperation - mutual exploitation of search and examination results among patent offices - has been evolving into Global Cooperation as in the case of IP5 Offices / Shinjiro Ono

5. Patenting software-related inventions in Europe / Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt, and Heinz Goddar

6. Patenting inventions in medical sciences / Jan B. Krauss

7. A comparative approach to the inventive step / Amy L. Landers

8. The Lilly written description requirement: a doctrinal 'wild card' of uncertain effect / Christopher M. Holman

Part III Patent enforcement

9. Claim construction under U.S. and German patent acts: wording used in the claims and the invention disclosed in the specification / Toshiko Takenaka and Christof Karl

10. The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension through other tools of intellectual property / Horst Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank

11. Patent enforcement in Germany / Tilman Müller-Stoy

12. The theory and practice of patent damages in Japan and the U.S. - explaining the differences that remain / Christoph Rademacher

13. Resolving patent disputes in a global economy / Rochelle Dreyfuss

14. Specialized IP courts: the Unified Patent Court (UPC) / Stefan Luginbuehl and Dieter Stauder

Part IV Current issues

15. Pharmaceutical patents / John Thomas

16. Patent litigation reform in the United States / Greg Reilly

17. Design patent-utility patent intersection / Xuan Thao Nguyen

18. Current controversies concerning patent rights and public health in a world of international norms / Cynthia Ho

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781785364112

1-78536-412-X