Trademark category: 266 books

The Open African Innovation Research and Training (Open A.I.R.) project focused on the intersection of innovation, intellectual property (IP), and development in Africa and this book offers its research findings. Its case studies cover nine African countries—Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, Uganda,...

An examination of subjectivity in copyright law, analyzing authors, users, and pirates through a relational framework. In current debates over copyright law, the author, the user, and the pirate are almost always invoked. Some in the creative industries call for more legal protection for authors;...

Mass digitization of texts, images, and other creative works promises to unprecedentedly enhance access to culture and knowledge. With the electronic 'library of Alexandria' having started to materialize, a number of legal and policy issues have emerged. The book develops an extended conceptual account...

Choreographing Copyright is a new historical and cultural analysis of U.S. dance-makers' investment in intellectual property rights. Stretching from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first, the book reconstructs efforts to win copyright protection for choreography and teases out their...

One of the world's leading law journals is available as an ebook. This issue of The Yale Law Journal (the 7th of Vol. 122, academic year 2012-2013) features new articles and essays on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: "City Unplanning,"...

The December issue of Yale Law Journal (the third of Volume 123, academic year 2013-2014) features new articles on law and legal theory by internationally recognized scholars. Contents include: • Article, "The Interpretation-Construction Distinction in Patent Law," by Tun-Jen Chiang...

This Fifth Edition of The Generic Challenge provides important new updates on current regulatory, legal and commercial issues affecting brand and generic pharmaceutical products, including new laws establishing generics for biologics, and changes brought about by the recently enacted America Invents...

Scientific and technological innovations are forcing the inadequacies of patent law into the spotlight. Robin Feldman explains why patents are causing so much trouble. She urges lawmakers to focus on crafting rules that anticipate future bargaining, not on the impossible task of assigning precise boundaries to rights when an invention is new.

This fascinating new book dissects, from a Competition law perspective, how Research and Development collaborations operate under both US and EU antitrust law. Analyzing the evolution of this innovation landscape from the 1970s to the present day, Blomqvist details the modifications and amendments made...

The new millennium has been described as ‘the century of biology’, but scientific progress and access to medicines has been marred by global disputes over ownership of the science by universities and private companies. This book examines the challenges posed by the modern patent system to the right of everyone to access the benefits of science in international law.

Petition for Certiorari Denied Without Opinion – Patent Case 88-308. Re-examination of Patents in District Courts. 35 USC 302 et. seq.

Petition for Certiorari Denied Without Opinion – Patent Case 98-1972. 9th Cir-Affirmed subject to pre-filing review order-Not for Publication-Federal Patents Confiscated Under California State Laws – Court Waives Third Party Lien on Patents.Was the 9th Circuit interested in justice or in using rules to protect corporate interests? Even when the lower court jumped the law?

Petition for Certiorari Denied Without Opinion – Patent Case 93-1518 Affirmative Defenses Trump Patent Claims and raise questions of a court's jurisdiction to decide patent claims without violating jurisdictional statutes for the infringement of patents.In this case, petitioner's complaints were...

Petition for Certiorari Denied Without Opinion – Patent Case 96-1178 Court Requires Pro se Inventor to Obtain counsel. Inventor sues judges