2nd edition. — K G Saur, 2006. — 254 p. Since the first edition of this book, edited by Peter Auger and published in 1992, a complete revolution has taken place in the dissemination of patent information. Technical developments – most notably the internet – have caused great changes in the information industry, including the patent sector. Perhaps the largest influence has been...
Springer-Verlag New York, 2013. - 259 p. ISBN: 1461441382 Security and Privacy in Social Networks brings to the forefront innovative approaches for analyzing and enhancing the security and privacy dimensions in online social networks, and is the first comprehensive attempt dedicated entirely to this field. In order to facilitate the transition of such methods from theory to...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 586 p. This work owes its origin to the Singapore IP Academy, which was established in January 2003 as a result of a national initiative. Acknowledging the value and importance of intellectual assets and creativity as primary sources of wealth and competitive advantage, the broad objective of IP Academy is to contribute to the building of a...
John Wiley, 2005, -247 p. A Guide for Young Scientists School and university science courses generally prepare students well for the challenges of understanding science, carrying out experiments, and interpreting results. Surprisingly, however, the topics of creativity in science and science communication are only rarely a part of the curriculum of science courses at colleges...
NOLO, 2016. — 600 p. — ISBN: 978-1413322217. A plain-English guide to intellectual property law. Whether you are in the world of business or creative arts, you need to understand the laws that govern your work. But given the convoluted terminology that surrounds patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, this isn’t easy. Enter, Patent, Copyright &...
2nd Ed. — University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 255 p. — ISBN10: 022637419X, 13 978-0226374192. In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when a...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 568 p. — ISBN: 0521884373, 9780521884372 This book explores the interface between intellectual property and human rights law and policy. The relationship between these two fields has captured the attention of governments, policymakers, and activist communities in a diverse array of international and domestic political and judicial venues....
Springer, 2006, -273 p. At the beginning of the 21st century, the business world is dynamic and complex and competition is globalized. Success rates in innovation in such a context are low. Only 0.6% of innovative ideas are eventually successful. In the pharmaceutical industry, the success rate falls to 1 in 10, 000. The requirements for handling innovations have increased in...
8th Edition. — Longman, 2010. — 995 p. There have been numerous significant legislative initiatives affecting intellectual property since the first edition of this book was published in 1992. But now we seemed to have reached the sunny uplands and there has been little change to intellectual property legislation since the publication of the seventh edition, the most notable...
Edward Elgar Pub, 2010. - 522 p. ISBN10: 1848447663 ISBN13: 978-1848447660 This innovative book celebrates the tri-centenary of modern copyright, which began with the enactment of the Statute of Anne by the British Parliament in 1709, and was soon followed by other copyright legislation abroad. The Statute of Anne is traditionally claimed to be the world's first copyright...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. - 473 p. Recent developments in trade mark law have called into question a variety of basic features, as well as bolder extensions, of legal protection. Other disciplines can help us think about fundamental issues such as: What is a trade mark? What does it do? What should be the scope of its protection? This volume assembles essays examining...
John Wiley, 2009, -322 p. Innovation profoundly affects every business and investor. While most executives believe that new ideas are the currency of choice, few agree on the best ways to profit from them. From Ideas to Profits is a search for how invention rights become business assets and the ways they can be converted into return. Along the way, contributors to this book...
John J. Bethune is the Kennedy Chair of Business and Professor of Economics at Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina, 2003, 16 p. Executive Summary. I. What are Intellectual Property Rights and Why Should They be Protected? II. The Economics of Patents and Copyrights. III. Trademarks as Property.
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 286 p. The protection of privacy and personality is one of the most fascinating issues confronting any legal system. This book provides a detailed comparative analysis of the laws relating to commercial exploitation of personality in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. It examines the difficulties in reconciling privacy...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 403 p. Commercial exploitation of attributes of an individual’s personality, such as name, voice and likeness, forms a mainstay of modern advertising and marketing. Such indicia also represent an important aspect of an individual’s dignity which is often offended by unauthorised commercial appropriation. This volume provides a framework for...
Routledge, 2003. — 198 p. The origins of the chapters which make up this book are as follows. For some time, concern had been expressed by a number of UK policy-makers that little empirical work had been done into how business used the intellectual property system, and especially of its relevance to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The ‘intellectual...
Boca Raton: CRC Press. – 2008. – 273 p. (Perspectives in nanotechnology) This book provides an analysis of some of the legal issues that surround nanotechnology. At its most fundamental level, the recognized purpose of laws in society is to control people’s behavior. The manner in which laws affect such control varies depending on circumstances and may sometimes be manifested...
Delmar, Cengage Learning, 2012. — 576 p. — ISBN: 1111648573. Intellectual Property: The Law of Trademarks, Copyrights, Patents, and Trade Secrets, Fourth Edition, is a thorough guide to the four fields of intellectual property law: trademarks, copyrights, patents, and trade secrets. This comprehensive, yet reader-friendly book helps you master the complexities of modern...
Edward Elgar, 2009, -361 p. The chapters in this book are based on papers presented at a symposium entitled ‘Feist, Facts, and Functions: IP Protection for Works Beyond Entertainment’, which was held in Washington, DC on 28 September 2007. The symposium was co-sponsored by The George Washington University Law School and the Software and Information Industry Association. For...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. — 417 p. — (Research Handbooks in Intellectual Property). — ISBN: 978-1-78643-116-5. The creative industries are becoming of increasing important from economic, cultural, and social perspectives. This Handbook explores the relationship, whether positive or negative, between creative industries and intellectual property (IP) rights. Distinguished...
John Wiley, 2002. — 459 p. Understanding how intellectual property rights are involved with mergers and acquisitions — the topic of this book — is essential given how merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the intellectual property field has come to dominate, both in volume and in value, merger transactions generally. This situation was true in the 1990s, and it is true now....
Wiley, 2011. — 338 p. — ISBN: 1118075870, 9781118075876 A practical approach to corporate IP operations and implementationIntellectual Property Operations and Implementation helps executives, attorneys, accountants, managers, and owners, understand the legal, technological, economic, and cultural changes that have affected corporate IP ownership and management. Page by page, it...
5th Edition. - South-Western College/West, 2010. - 624 p. ISBN: 1439079811 For future managers, the fast-paced world of technology offers both unlimited opportunities and difficult challenges. Understanding what the laws are, why they're important, and how they apply to cyberspace will help you to make better decisions. Legal Aspects of Managing Technology, 5th Edition guides...
Cambridge University Press, 2005, -458 p. The idea for this book arose out of conversations we had while we were both working at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. At the time plans for a European Directive to deal with copyright in the ‘information society’ were at an early stage, but it was already apparent that copyright users were going to struggle to influence the...
OMPI, 2014. - 555 p. Les atteintes aux droits de propriété intellectuelle (PI) constituent, à juste titre, une préoccupation majeure, tant des autorités publiques que des titulaires de droits, au niveau national comme sur le plan international. Cela explique notamment pourquoi l’Organisation Mondiale de la Propriété Intellectuelle (OMPI) est de plus en plus souvent sollicitée...
Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, 2008. - 288 p. ISBN: 0750679956 Security has always been a major concern to businesses that have proprietary information, but as the instances of intellectual property theft rise from year to year, it is becoming more and more essential for businesses to stay abreast of the latest trends and technologies in the field. An...
Authors not specified. - London: Cavendish Publishering limited, 2002. - 147 p. Remedies Confidential information Patents Passing off Malicious falsehood Character merchandising Registered trade marks Design rights
John Wiley, 2010, -243 p. This book is written for marketing, branding, and innovation leaders interested in improving the long-term return on investment of their branding and innovation plans. Whether you work in a large corporation, an agency environment, or an emerging or entrepreneurial company, if you are looking for a new way to add value to your innovation or branding...
London: Cavendish Publishing, 1999. — 545 p. Intellectual property law is fascinating. We are all familiar with, and are users of, intellectual property. In addition, the subject matter of intellectual property – the application of an idea in making or selling products and services – forms the fundament of a society’s cultural, technological, educational and economic...
ALA Editions, 2006. - 156 p. ISBN10: 083890906X ISBN13: 978-083890906 This is really the revised and restructured Copyright Essentials (ALA, 2000). Crews addresses 18 areas of copyright in 5 parts. He begins with the scope of protectable works as well as works without copyright protection. Next, he discusses the rights of ownership, including duration and exceptions. He then...
ALA Editions, 2012. - 208 p. ISBN13: 978-0-8389-1092-4 Copyright in the world of digital information is changing at a fevered pace, even as educators and librarians digitize, upload, download, draw on databases, and incorporate materials into Web-based instruction. It's essential to stay abreast of the basics of copyright law and fair use. Kenneth D. Crews has completely...
Edward Elgar, 2009, -165 p. Application of antitrust rules to intellectual property (IP) has always been a perplexing subject. It has recently gained importance in the context of new technologies and the associated market developments. Over the past few years, the US and EU antitrust enforcers have taken steps to reevaluate their approach to IP rights and to tackle the related...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 358 p. Mark Davison examines several legal models designed to protect databases, considering in particular the 1996 European Union Directive, the history of its adoption and its transposition into national laws. He compares the Directive with various American legislative proposals, as well as the principles of misappropriation that underpin...
Oxford University Press, 2008, -393 p. We all now care about intellectual property (IP). It is the only form of property that we can think up and then get a right to exclude others from what we just thought. That simple ability powers the knowledge economy. Interestingly, while the focus on the knowledge economy is new, its governing laws and concepts are not. What is new is...
Edward Elgar, 2008. — 510 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84542-047-5. Concern about expanding and possibly ‘anti-competitive’ intellectual property rights, blocking patents and patent ambush cases, network effects, especially in information technology industries, and the growing need for standardization compel those practicing in these areas of law to request more fundamental research on the...
6th Edition. — Nolo, 2003. — 549 p. Written for programmers, publishers, artists, writers and others who need to understand the terminology of intellectual property law, this clear and concise book provides: * an overview of patent, copyright and trade secret law * explanations of the protections each offers * clear definitions of IP terminology * sample legal forms The 6th...
Hart Publishing, 2007. - 449 p. - ISBN: 1841136921 This book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic of patent claim interpretation in the UK, as well as in three other select jurisdictions. It explores territory that has great commercial significance and yet is severely under-explored in existing works. The twin issues of the function of patent law and interpretational...
Nolo, 2011. - 378 p. ISBN: 1413313310 For the more than twenty million Americans who are self-employed and offer their services on a contract basis, Working For Yourself is the book to have. It tells the reader how to: successfully meet business start-up requirements,comply with strict IRS rules, draft solid consulting and independent contractor agreements, get paid in full and...
Nolo, 2005. — 385 p. — ISBN: 1-4133-0373-0 Whether you're contracting your services to others or hiring independent contractors to work for you or your business, it's essential to get everything in writing -- if you don't, you could lose time, money and credibility. Consultant and Independent Contractor Agreements gives you the plain-English instructions and easy-to-use forms...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2009. - 376 p. ISBN: 0807833029 Skilled workers of the early nineteenth century enjoyed a degree of professional independence because workplace knowledge and technical skill were their "property," or at least their attribute. In most sectors of today's economy, however, it is a foundational and widely accepted truth that businesses retain...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 256 p. It wasn’t so long ago that intellectual property (IP) didn’t much matter to company managers and investors. Copyright was for writers and artists, trade secrets were difficult to protect, and, as for patents, they seemed at best a necessary expense for large technology companies. Not that IP was exactly ignored; epic patent battles...
CRC Press, 2014. — 276 p. — ISBN: 9781439856024 Nanotechnology Intellectual Property Rights: Research, Design, and Commercialization offers an overview of the dynamics of development and commercialization in nanotech, where strategic integration of IP, R&D, and commercialization has become imperative. It demystifies issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) associated with...
Edward Elgar, 2008, -345 p. Whenever one is confronted with a particular intellectual property issue for which one’s national law does not appear to offer an immediate answer, a common reflex is often to enquire whether that issue has already given rise to some discussion in the United States or in the European Union. The state of their technological development and the size of...
Edward Elgar, 2010, -301 p. The need to incorporate the numerous and significant developments in legislation, case law and scholarly opinion at national and international level was an important factor in writing a much expanded edition of this work. However, it was not the primary motivation. Above all, there was a desire to explore new perspectives on intellectual property and...
John Wiley, 2003, -290 p. The book you’re reading, Essentials of Patents, is about the development, protection, commercial exploitation, and management of patents. Once the domain of wire-haired inventors, engineers, and their patent attorneys, patents are now at the forefront of corporate value creation and shareholder wealth. The competitive global economy exerts even more...
Ashgate Publishing, 2008, -213 p. The social and cultural dimensions of intellectual property frameworks are significant subject matter of intellectual examination and investigation. Indeed, the economic impact of patents on development and local infrastructures is of particular concern. However, critical engagement with patent law, as an area of intellectual property law, is...
John Wiley, 2003, -503 p. This book arises from the authors’ collective experience acting as damage experts and managing damage experts in intellectual property (IP) cases. In case after case we have observed that the damage portion of IP litigation is treated as a neglected stepchild. This failure to prioritize construction of a damage theory is curious since so much rides on...
Cambridge University Press, 2008, -433 p. Innovation is the creative lifeblood of every country. One of my proudest accomplishments as a United States Senator was to help promote innovation in my country by bringing about the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. The Bayh-Dole Act gave universities ownership and control of government-funded inventions that are balanced by...
Lewis Publishers, 2000, -155 p. Although the first patent law was passed in 1790, patents have been a mysterious subject filled with misconceptions and ideas. The patent professionals who understood the patent laws and their benefits were a limited group of people, and their knowledge was not transferred to the broad group of experimenters, scientists, and engineers who...
Lewis Publishers, 2000, -155 p. Although the first patent law was passed in 1790, patents have been a mysterious subject filled with misconceptions and ideas. The patent professionals who understood the patent laws and their benefits were a limited group of people, and their knowledge was not transferred to the broad group of experimenters, scientists, and engineers who...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, -291 p. Intellectual property (IP) affects many dimensions of our daily lives. It covers four types of rights: patents, copyright (or ‘droit d’auteur’), trade marks and trade secrets. Here, we focus on copyright and patents only. As Varian (2005, pp. 124–5) puts it, IP rights can be analysed through three of the key variables constitutive of their...
Edward Elgar, 2008, -344 p. Traditional cultural expressions (TCE; also referred to as expressions of folklore) form an essential part of indigenous communities’ identity and heritage, and their protection and promotion are closely linked to sustaining and furthering cultural diversity. The discussions regarding the protection of knowledge and creativity of indigenous...
Princeton University Press, 2010. - 384 p. ISBN: 0691137986 What drives innovation? How does it contribute to the growth of firms, industries, and economies? And do intellectual property rights help or hurt innovation and growth? Uniquely combining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the United States and Europe, this book introduces...
Nolo, 2008, -260 p. 5th edition If you’re an inventor, you’re probably aware of the four main activities that all successful inventors must normally undertake: conceiving, building, and testing the invention legally protecting the invention marketing the invention, and financing the first three tasks. The Inventor’s Notebook is designed to help you organize the records you need...
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, 2005, -199 p. The appropriate dimensions of protection for intellectual property rights in general and patents in particular have been matters of controversy since the sixteenth century. As growth in advanced economies has seemingly become more dependent on technological change, the stakes in intellectual property rights have...
Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. - 152 p. ISBN: 080932993X ISBN13: 9780809329939 What issues arise when students’ uses of intellectual materials are legally challenged, and how does the academic context affect them? What happens when users of intellectual property, either within or outside the academic structure, violate students’ rights to their intellectual products?...
Routledge, 2014. — 232 p. — ISBN: 9780415527910, 9780415527927, 9781315849898 When the authors of this book were students, intellectual property (IP) law was rarely taught at undergraduate level at law schools. Even at postgraduate level it was still a subject that was taught only at selected universities. Since then, however, the importance of IP law has been recognised and it...
World Intellectual Property Organization, 2013. — 379 p. Readers will discover that Intellectual Property is often one of the most important assets of large corporations, that it generates more than 100 billion dollars a year in revenues from patent licensing alone, and that a good patent portfolio can dramatically increase the valuation of an enterprise. They will also realize...
The Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2005, -222 p. 2nd Edition Engineers are natural innovators, whether they are involved in the basic development of a completely new system, or in making an existing system work better. Engineers and scientists1 are frequently willing to share their skills and ideas with others. Unfortunately, they sometimes find that others are less...
Nolo, 2008. — 356 p. — ISBN13: 978-1-4133-0752-8 (pbk.), ISBN10: 1-4133-0752-3 (pbk.) For the more than twenty million Americans who are self-employed and offer their services on a contract basis, Working For Yourself is the book to have. It tells the reader how to: successfully meet business start-up requirements,comply with strict IRS rules, draft solid consulting and...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. — 306 p. The Power of Technology Risk and Responsibility The Ethical Anatomy of Djsasters Remaking Nature Tinkering with Humans Information's Wild Frontiers Whose Knowledge, Whose Property? Reclaiming the Future Invention for the People
University of Chicago Press, 2011. — 640 p. — ISBN: 9780226401195 Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost...
University of Chicago Press, 2009. - 626 p. Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film industry lost $2.3 billion in revenue...
4th ed. — Kogan Page, 2015. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0749470456. Bringing together a wide range of expert contributors, The Handbook of European Intellectual Property Management reveals how IP can contribute to improved competitive performance and financial success. Looking at the commercial implications of the changes that are happening within Europe's framework for innovation,...
Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2006. — 190 p. To the uninitiated, the world of intellectual property often appears an impenetrable collision of legal, scientific and economic themes. Indeed, the study of intellectual property draws from these three disciplines in a way that our educational and philosophical systems struggle to reconcile. Technically-expert lawyers, scientists and economists...
Virginia Law Review. Vol.92. December 2006, № 8. 91 p. Why is copying in the fashion industry treated so differently from copying in other creative industries? Why, when other major content industries have obtained and made use of increasingly powerful IP protections for their products, does fashion design remain mostly unprotected? That the fashion industry produces high...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2012. - 247 p. A straightforward guide to inventing, patenting, and technology commercialization for scientists and engineers Although chemists, physicists, biologists, polymer scientists, and engineers in industry are involved in potentially patentable work, they are often under-prepared for this all-important field. This book provides a clear, jargon-free, and...
Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2008. — 192 p. I am a quant. Almost all of my work involves either pure math or writing computer code to calculate numbers — even this book will rely on one mathematical theorem (which I promise will be painless). In my free time, I’ve done things like write a video game and a short guide to statistical analysis using the C...
Hart Publishing, 2006, -360 p. Encouraged by the demand for my monographs on distribution and technology transfer and by the welcome received by those on earlier group exemptions, I have prepared not just a commentary on the latest technology transfer block exemption.1 I have analysed it in the context of the case law of both the Commission and the Community courts in...
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013. — 592 p. The first of its kind, this textbook has been carefully designed to give students and non-specialist practitioners a clear understanding of the fundamentals of European intellectual property law. Providing a comprehensive overview of both community IP rights, and areas of IP law that have been harmonised, and supported by judicious use of...
Stanford Law Books, 2009, -454 p. Our book had its beginnings in a series of conversations some years ago between its authors, who are friends and colleagues on the faculty of the Law School at Duke University. Professor Lange, whose professional interests include intellectual property and entertainment law, has long been identified with specialists in these fields who are...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 214 p. The computer program exclusion from Article 52 of the European Patent Convention (EPC) proved impossible to uphold as industry moved over to digital technology, and the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Organisation (EPO) felt emboldened to circumvent the EPC in Vicom by creating the legal fiction of ‘technical effect’. This...
Newton: O’Reilly, 2008. — 392 p. I have a workbench in my garage where I keep some of my woodworking tools. While I am not a great carpenter — actually, I’m a pretty terrible carpenter — I still enjoy building things and working with the wood. Although I have had my workbench set up for several years, I am always a little bit tentative when I first use a new power tool. I have...
The digital Millennium Copyright Act : copyright lobbyists conquer the Internet : pay per view... pay per listen... pay per use : the war against Napster : what the major players stand to gain : what the public stands to lose. - 3d ed. - Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2017. - 216 p. Copyright basics The art of making copyright laws Copyright and compromise A thousand...
2nd Edition Straightforward Publ., 2016. — 82 p. — (Straightforward Guides). — ISBN: 1847166547. Applying for Patents is a concise journey through the maze of obtaining Intellectual Property Rights. The book is all encompassing and covers the whole process of protecting IPR, from the application for a patent, through to the application for a trade mark, registered design and...
Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015. - 300 p. This comprehensive book is the first of its kind to take scientists and engineers beyond simply getting a patent granted. Through the author's extensive technical background and experience in intellectual property licensing, it ties the many technical, legal and business aspects of patent enforcement to the...
National Bureau of Economic Research, monograph, Massachusetts, 1998, 33 p. The institution and enforcement of property rights and contracts have been an important policy issue for the developing countries, the transition economies, and the developed countries in the 1990s. This paper takes a different and complimentary approach, developing a strategic model in which local...
SAGE Publications Ltd., 2014. — 840 p. — ISBN: 1446266346, 9781446266342 This Handbook brings together scholars from around the world in addressing the global significance of, controversies over and alternatives to intellectual property (IP) today. It brings together over fifty of the leading authors in this field across the spectrum of academic disciplines, from law,...
Springer, 2016. — 177 p. This book focuses on database law (a branch of intellectual property law) and further explores the legal protection currently available for data and data-related products in India. It offers a comparative study of the position of copyright law in protecting databases in the US and EU, while also presenting responses from the Indian database industry and...
Oxford University Press, 2009, -611 p. We hold these truths to be self-evident: cutting-edge technology is a driving force behind America’s sustained economic growth; domestic technology and knowledge-based markets are growing at unprecedented rates; new markets are opening to American goods under the influence of free-trade treaties; and companies that specialize in high...
The National Academies Press, 2004, -186 p. Our committee’s study of the patent system was a much more ambitious undertaking than we anticipated at its outset, and we have many people to thank for their contributions to its completion. First, through eight meetings, two conferences, numerous report drafts, and preparation of the response to reviewers’ comments, the members of...
Hoboken: Wiley, 2011. — 329 p. Written by an individual with experience as both a chemist and a patent attorney, The Chemist's Companion Guide to Patent Law covers everything the student or working chemist needs to know about patentability, explaining important concepts of patent law (such as novelty, non-obviousness, and freedom-to-operate) in easy-to-understand terms. Through...
Transaction Publishers, 2001, -267 p. This work contains numerous arguments, sketches, views, and theories and not all are central to the main thesis. I have tried to make the model of intellectual and intangible property presented in these pages accessible while maintaining a fair amount of rigor and depth. I thus skirt the line of boring the expert and overwhelming the...
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2014. - 442 p. ISBN 978-3-658-04155-7 Mit der vorgelegten Arbeit füllt Frau Moser-Knierim zwei wesentliche Lücken im Recht des elektronischen Rechtsverkehrs. Indem sie Möglichkeiten untersucht, wie auf der Grundlage der Entscheidung der Bundesverfassungsgerichts die Ziele der Sicherheitsgewährleistung und des Grundrechtsschutzes hinsichtlich der...
DK Publishing, 2007, -292 p. Intellectual property has become a household issue. From the boardroom to Internet chat rooms, and even in gossip columns, intellectual property is a hot topic. But what exactly is it? How does it affect you? If you make it big, isn’t this something your lawyers can just take care of? Or you might modestly conclude that you are not an intellectual,...
Springer, 2019. — 556 p. This book identifies and explains the different national approaches to data protection – the legal regulation of the collection, storage, transmission and use of information concerning identified or identifiable individuals – and determines the extent to which they could be harmonised in the foreseeable future. In recent years, data protection has...
The MIT Press, 2004. - 328 p. ISBN 0262632985 In Ruling the Root, Milton Mueller uses the theoretical framework of institutional economics to analyze the global policy and governance problems created by the assignment of Internet domain names and addresses. "The root" is the top of the domain name hierarchy and the Internet address space. It is the only point of centralized...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. — 288 p. — ISBN10: 0199735220; ISBN13: 978-0199735228 Providing a vital economic incentive for much of society's music, art, and literature, copyright is widely considered "the engine of free expression"--but it is also used to stifle news reporting, political commentary, historical scholarship, and even artistic expression. In Copyright's...
Quorum Books, 1998, -182 p. I began this book with the goal of analyzing the ongoing debate within the programming community over the desirability and ultimate effect of software patents. As I delved deeper into the subject, however, I came to the conclusion that the particulars of the debate — which are not that interesting or enlightening — obscure a larger and more important...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 592 p. — ISBN: 0199688109. Intellectual Property Law Directions focuses on the practical issues of United Kingdom intellectual property law at the same time as demonstrating how the subject is being shaped by outside forces. This text is written in a lively and engaging manner with an emphasis on explaining the key topics covered on intellectual...
Routledge, 2019. — 228 p. Photographers and publishers of photographs enjoy a wide range of legal rights including freedom of expression and of publication. They have a right to create and publish photographs. They may invoke their intellectual, moral and property rights to protect and enforce their rights in their created and/or published works. These rights are not absolute....
Springer, 2013. — 403 p. — ISBN: 3642279066, 9783642279072 The book examines the correlation between Intellectual Property Law – notably copyright – on the one hand and social and economic development on the other. The main focus of the initial overview is on historical, legal, economic and cultural aspects. Building on that, the work subsequently investigates how intellectual...
5th Edition. — Wiley, 2018. — 662 p. — ISBN: 978-1-119-35623-3. A new edition of the trusted book on intellectual property Intellectual Property simplifies the process of attaching a dollar amount to intellectual property and intangible assets, be it for licensing, mergers and acquisitions, loan collateral, investment purposes, and determining infringement damages. Written by...
Oxford University Press, 2012, -336 p. Socrates thought the unexamined life not worth living. Selfexamination occurs only if we rigorously inquire into our habits, including habits of mind. Among the habits of mind this book examines are the fundamental beliefs that copyright laws directly cause people to create works they wouldn’t otherwise create, directly put substantial...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 — 356 p. It is impossible to think about intellectual property for as long as this book has taken to write, and not to become acutely aware of one’s own roster of intellectual debts, while also realizing the impossibility of enumerating each one. But there are some people whose help has been so extraordinarily generous that I would like to...
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. — 287 p. Intellectual Property — The Currency of the New Economy. Intellectual property, also known simply as IP, has become one of the most talked about topics in business today, yet it is still one of the least understood. Simply stated, intellectual property consists of products of the human mind and creativity that are protected by law. It...
Wiley, 2011. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0470888504, 9780470888506 The definitive primer on intellectual property for business professionals, non-IP attorneys, entrepreneurs, and inventors Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, the Second Edition of this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest...
Hoboken: John Wiley, 2004. — 236 p. The invention of e-mail as an efficient mode of communication gives rise to an intriguing benefit: One need not answer a question immediately as would be expected in real-time conversation. Therefore, on occasion, I prefer to ponder before I answer, as I did when honored with the request to write this preface to Essentials of Licensing...
International Development Research Centre, Canada, 1996, -324 p. The Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights was established in 1990 by the Global Coalition for Bio-Cultural Diversity, whose mission was to to unite indigenous peoples, scientific organizations, and environmental groups to implement a forceful strategy for the use of traditional knowledge, involvement of...
2006, -526 p. 12th Edition. David Pressman is a member of the Pennsylvania (inactive), California, and Patent and Trademark Office bars. He's had over 40 years' experience in the patent profession, as a patent examiner for the U.S. Patent Office, a patent attorney for Philco-Ford Corp., Elco Corp., and Varian Associates, as a columnist for EDN Magazine and Entrepreneur.com, and...
NOLO, 2018. — 712 p. Protect and profit from your invention For over 30 years,Patent It Yourselfhas guided hundreds of thousands of inventors through the process of getting a patent, from start to finish. Patent attorneys David Pressman and David E. Blau provide the latest information, forms, and clear instructions to help you: conduct a patent search the right way evaluate...
CRC Press, 2013. — 352 p. — ISBN: 9781439837016, ASIN: B008ID45FM Given the increasing role of intellectual property (IP) in academic research, it is important for academic scientists to gain greater awareness and knowledge of the various issues involved with IP resulting from their research and inventions. In addition, the line between academic and industrial research has been...
NJ, USA: West Caldwell, 2001. — 110 p. — ISBN: 1588202356. Much of this book was written a long time ago when the author first became aware of the concepts of Special and General relativity. At the time he assumed that the subject was well thought out and understood by people more knowledgeable and probably more intelligent than himself. His goal was to learn from them and to...
Wiley-Scrivener, 2017. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 111894609X. — ISBN13: 978-111894609. Patents are a vital asset in the modern business world. They allow patent holders to introduce new products in to a market while deterring other market players from simply copying innovative features without making comparable investments in research and development. In years past, a few patents may...
Edward Elgar, 2007, -377 p. A late adopter of new technology, I received an iPod Shuffle, a hot ticket item, as a Christmas present in December 2005. Travelling across the Pacific from Australia to Canada on New Year’s Eve, I listened to one hundred and twenty songs drawn from my musical library. The personal soundtrack to my life included the psychedelic music of Pink Floyd...
Edward Elgar, 2008, -392 p. In the nineteenth century, patent law provided exclusive rights to inventors in respect of mechanical inventions, but it did not extend such protection to biological inventions. My mother’s family hail from Shepparton in the Goulburn Valley in Victoria, Australia. In 1873, the blacksmith, John Furphy, set up a forge in the town, and produced a range...
Sphinx. 2003. 346 p. ISBN: 157248201X The number of patent applications filed in the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has increased dramatically over the past decade. Giant companies like IBM have obtained thousands of issued patents and spend millions in obtaining new ones each year. News reports persistently tell us that stock prices of a company climbed due to the issuance...
Prentice Hall, 2005. — 406 p. Open-source resources are completely common within our society. Yet open-source and free software remain a mystery. Science, public highways, city parks, language: these are at the core of any free society. Commerce gets built upon them. Culture flourishes through them. Yet the same ideas applied to software puzzle many people. Language can be...
IGI Global, 2008, -483 p. Intellectual property protection is a hot issue on the globe in the twenty first century, because the recent expansion of network connectivity to the Internet known as ubiquitous allows people to enjoy a number of contents and software stored in the digital forms which are fragile to unauthorized electric duplication or copyright and/or patent...
Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2013. - 286 p. - ISBN: 1845429370 This timely and detailed book is a state of the art overview of Internet law in the EU, and in particular of the EU regulatory framework which applies to the Internet. At the same time it serves as a critical evaluation of the EU's policy and governance methods and a comparative analysis, mainly contrasting...
American Library Association, 2009. - 148 p. ISBN: 0838935818 ISBN13: 978-0838935811 This brief book uses case studies to illustrate real-life scenarios that school librarians are apt to confront, countering each situation with a recommended course of action that focuses on protecting students' First Amendment rights, intellectual freedom, and privacy. Scales includes useful...
Allworth Press, 2016. — 222 p. — ISBN10: 1621534855. — ISBN13: 978-1621534853 The international battle against Internet pirates has been heating up. Increasingly law enforcement is paying attention to book piracy as ebook publishing gains an ever-larger market share. With this threat to their health and even survival, publishers and authors must act much like the music, film,...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. - 372 p. Technological developments have shaped copyright law’s development, and now the prospect of endless, effortless digital copying poses a significant challenge to modern copyright law. Many complain that copyright protection has burgeoned wildly, far beyond its original boundaries. Some have questioned whether copyright can survive the...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 300 p. As technology makes it easier for people to work together, large-scale collaboration is becoming increasingly prevalent. In this context, the question of how to determine authorship – and hence ownership - of copyright in collaborative works is an important question to which current copyright law fails to provide a coherent or...
ABC-CLIO, 2011. - 166 p. ISBN: 1598848488 For close to a decade, author Carol Simpson fielded and answered inquiries for the "Copyright Questions of the Month" column for Library Media Connection. The questions and answers of this book are gleaned from the myriad copyright questions submitted to her by actual educators in the field, addressing the unique copyright issues in...
4th edition ABC-CLIO,Linworth, 2005. - 245 p. ISBN13: 9781586831929 ISBN: 1586831925 Copyright continues to be a timely topic as technology makes determining who owns what more and more complex. Written by the leading copyright authority for libraries, Copyright for Schools: A Practical Guide, Fifth Edition is a thoroughly updated version of the industry standard on copyright...
Linworth Publishing, 2008. - 128 p. ISBN13: 9781586833237 Everything the school administrator needs to know to stay legal and in compliance with copyright law! Written by a well-known expert in the field of copyright law and schools. Succintly organized to allow you to answer all your copyright questions quickly. Current, up-to-date, and cleary written so you don't have to...
Springer, 2015. — 270 p. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary legal literature, providing deep insights into the interface between law and genetics, highlighting emerging issues and providing meaningful solutions to current problems. It will be of interest to a broad readership, including academics, lawyers, policy makers and scholars engaged in...
Lund: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute, 2007. — 303 p. The relationship between human rights and intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been a subject of intense discussion during the last two decades among various stakeholders around the globe. The adoption of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) at the international level and...
John Wiley, 2005. — 886 p. When this book was first published 16 years ago, it was the first work devoted to the valuation of intellectual property and intangible assets. Through the following three editions, we have expanded and refined our presentation, building on our experiences as consultants in the real world of business and valuation. We, separately and together, have...
Cambridge University Press, 2003, -335 p. Multimedia products have recently experienced tremendous market success. Yet too often they are given inadequate protection under existing national and international copyright schemes. Irini Stamatoudi provides one of the first comprehensive, comparative treatments of multimedia works and copyright protection in this clear and concise...
9th edition. — Nolo, 2007. — 592 p. Intellectual property refers to products of the human intellect that have commercial value and that receive legal protection. Typically, intellectual property encompasses creative works, products, processes, imagery, inventions and services and is protected by patent, copyright, trademark, or trade secret law. The commercial value of...
15th Ed. — NOLO, 2018. — 609 p. — ISBN: 978-1-413324-62-4. A plain-English guide to intellectual property law Whether you are in the world of business or creative arts, you need to understand the laws that govern your work. But given the convoluted terminology that surrounds patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, this isn't easy. Enter, Patent,...
New York University Press, 2001, -256 p. In 1946 Groucho Marx received a letter from the legal department of Warner Brothers studios. The letter warned Marx that his next film project, A Night in Casablanca, might encroach on the Warners' rights to their 1942 film Casablanca. The letter prompted a reply from Marx that ridiculed many of the operational principles of rights...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 144 p. — (Very Short Introductions). — ISBN: 978-0195372779. We all create intellectual property. We all use intellectual property. Intellectual property is the most pervasive yet least understood way we regulate expression. Despite its importance to so many aspects of the global economy and daily life, intellectual property policy remains a...
Published Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - 258 p. - ISBN: 1403949638 This book provides a better understanding of how intellectual property can improve economic and business performance. It focuses on three particular issues: the valuation of patents, the transfer of knowledge, and the management of innovation and intellectual property. Scholars from leading worldwide institutions...
Chicago: American Library Association, 2008. — 153 p. The new information landscape is raising more questions than ever about intellectual property. The advent of Google, YouTube, iPods, and URLs has led to a plethora of court cases involving copyrights, trademarks, and patents. Against this rapidly changing background, copyright expert Timothy Wherry takes a grounded look at...
4th Ed. — Allworth Press, 2018. — 234 p. — ISBN10: 1621536203, ISBN13: 978-1621536208. While copyright may seem like a mystery full of pitfalls, it is actually quite easy to understand-as Lee Wilson demonstrates in The Copyright Guide, Fourth Edition. This resource explains everything you need to know to make copyright work for you, including how to license your copyrights, how...
Pergamon, 2003. — 317 p. An intellectual property system was established in China in 1985. Since then, the merits and drawbacks of the system have become apparent in both theory and practice. Despite the fact that a great deal has been written about the Chinese intellectual property system, systematic studies of the subject are still scarce, especially from a corporate...
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