Routledge Research in Intellectual Property
Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Africa: A Regional Framework for Access
1st Edition
By Olasupo Owoeye
December 13, 2021
A major target of Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015 is the elimination of ‘the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical diseases’ and combating ‘hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other communicable diseases’. Intellectual ...
Internet Intermediaries and Trade Mark Rights
1st Edition
By Althaf Marsoof
December 13, 2021
Despite the apparent advantages of the internet, there is little debate that it facilitates intellectual property infringements, including infringements of trade mark rights. Infringers not only remain hidden by the anonymity the internet provides but also take advantage of its increasing reach and...
Law, Technology and Cognition: The Human Element in Online Copyright Infringement
1st Edition
By Hayleigh Bosher
December 13, 2021
This book considers a new approach to online copyright infringement. Rather than looking at the subject within a purely technological context, it provides legal analysis from a human perspective. This book highlights that there are three key instances in which the capacity of a human mind ...
The Patentability of Software: Software as Mathematics
1st Edition
By Anton Hughes
December 13, 2021
This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU, and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding the patentability of software and describes why it is that the software patent issue should be dealt...
Annotated Leading Trademark Cases in Major Asian Jurisdictions
1st Edition
Edited
By Kung-Chung Liu
June 30, 2021
There has been little or no study on trademark laws in Asia on a cross-jurisdictional level. This book aims at filling the existing gap and provides a comprehensive overview of trademark laws of eight major Asian jurisdictions and their most-updated trademark case law. The book analyses six of the ...
SEPs, SSOs and FRAND: Asian and Global Perspectives on Fostering Innovation in Interconnectivity
1st Edition
Edited
By Kung-Chung Liu, Reto M. Hilty
June 30, 2021
This book is a very useful reference guide on how de jure and de facto standards are being developed and how these standards compete against each other. The book also looks at how FRAND commitments are being determined across countries, how these disputes have played out, especially in Asia, and ...
Biodiversity, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property: Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing
1st Edition
Edited
By Kamalesh Adhikari, Charles Lawson
August 14, 2020
Debates about Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) have moved on in recent years. An initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have ...
Intellectual Property, Finance and Corporate Governance
1st Edition
By Janice Denoncourt
August 14, 2020
IP law has evolved from being a little pool to a big ocean. Corporate governance needs to respond to society’s rising expectations of directors and boards as the impact of the global intellectual property ecosystem is felt. How can a responsible corporate culture of IP transparency be stimulated to...
Pharmaceutical Patent Protection and World Trade Law: The Unresolved Problem of Access to Medicines
1st Edition
By Jae Sundaram
August 14, 2020
Patents, including pharmaceutical patents, enjoy extended protection for twenty years under the TRIPs Agreement. The Agreement has resulted in creating a two-tier system of the World Trade Organisation Member States, and its implementation has seen the price of pharmaceutical products skyrocket, ...
Copyright Law and Derivative Works: Regulating Creativity
1st Edition
By Omri Rachum-Twaig
June 30, 2020
Copyright law regulates creativity. It affects the way people create works of authorship ex-ante and affects the status of works of authorship significantly ex-post. But does copyright law really understand creativity? Should legal theories alone inform our regulation of the creative process?This ...
Patent Pools, Competition Law and Biotechnology
1st Edition
By Devdatta Malshe
June 30, 2020
Exploring the relationship between competition law and technology pools, this book provides general-purpose details of the biotechnology patent pool scheme while discussing historical developments, approaches of the US Department of Justice, Federal Trade Commission, and the European Union ...
Intellectual Property Rights and Competition in Standard Setting: Objectives and tensions
1st Edition
By Valerio Torti
June 01, 2018
Competition and intellectual property rights (IPRs) are both necessary for a market to work efficiently and to promote consumer welfare. Properly applied, intellectual property rules define a legal framework which allows undertakings to profit from their inventions. This in turn encourages ...