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International patent law : cooperation, harmonization and an institutional analysis of WIPO and the WTO / Alexander Stack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stack, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Patent laws and legislation.
- World Intellectual Property Organization.
- World Trade Organization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When is international patent law cooperation and harmonization welfare-enhancing? What is the role of international institutions - WIPO and the WTO - in furthering such harmonization? This book explores these questions from a global welfarist, rationalist perspective. It grounds its analysis in innovation theory and a examination of patent law and prosecution, incorporating the uncertainty of patent law's impact on welfare at a detailed level, dynamic changes, the skewed nature of patent value and the difficulty of textually capturing patent concepts. Using tools from new institutional economi
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Welfare-enhancing harmonization
- pt. 2. International patent law institutions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-13300-8
- 9786613133007
- 1-84980-609-8
- OCLC:
- 731646743
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