Full Description
Patent Law in Global Perspective addresses critical and timely questions in patent law from a truly global perspective, with contributions from leading patent law scholars from various countries. Offering fresh insights and new approaches to evaluating key institutional, economic, doctrinal, and practical issues, these chapters reflect critical analyses and review developments in national patent laws, efforts to reform the global patent system, and reconfigure geopolitical interests.
Professors Ruth L. Okediji and Margo A. Bagley bring together the first collection to explore patent law issues through the lens of economic development theory, international relations, theoretical foundations for the patent law system in the global context, and more. Topics include: the role of patent law in economic development; the efficacy of patent rights in facilitating innovation; patents and access to medicines; comparative patentability standards (including subject matter eligibility for biotechnology and software inventions); limitations and exceptions to patent scope and protection (including exhaustion, compulsory licensing, and research exceptions); patents on plants and other living organisms; and the impact of emerging economies on global patent system governance. The contributors provide a wealth of original insight and thought-provoking discussion that will be of great interest and benefit to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners alike.
Contents
Acknowledgments ; Preface ; Introduction ; Table of Abstracts ; Chapter 1: Public Welfare and the International Patent System ; Ruth L. Okediji ; Part I-Global Patent Law and the Political Economy of Harmonization ; Chapter 2: Intellectual Property Lawmaking, Global Governance, and Emerging Economies ; Rochelle C. Dreyfuss ; Chapter 3: US Executive Branch Patent Policy, Global and Domestic ; Arti K. Rai ; Chapter 4: Transnational Legal Ordering and Access to Medicines ; Gregory Shaffer and Susan K. Sell ; Chapter 5: The Limits of Substantive Patent Law Harmonization ; Graham Dutfield ; Part II-Global Approaches to Subject Matter Standards and Eligibility ; Chapter 6: Patent Barbarians at the Gate: The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of U.S. Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Disputes ; Margo A. Bagley ; Chapter 7: Patent Law's Problem Children: Software and Biotechnology in Transatlantic Context ; Dan L. Burk ; Chapter 8: Patenting Plants: A Comparative Synthesis ; Mark D. Janis ; Chapter 9: Enablement and Written Description ; Matthew Fisher ; Part III-Patents, Institutions, and Innovation Pathways ; Chapter 10: Indigenous Developmental Networks and the Non-developmental State: Making Intellectual Property Work for Indigenous People without Patents ; Peter Drahos ; Chapter 11: Observing the Patent System in Social and Political Perspective: A Case Study of Europe ; Shobita Parthasarathy and Alexis Walker ; Chapter 12: Toward a Theory of Regulatory Exclusivities ; John R. Thomas ; Part IV-Exceptions and Limits to Patent Protection ; Chapter 13: A False Sense of Security Offered by Zero-Price Liability Rules? Research Exceptions in the United States, Europe, and Japan in an Open Innovation Context ; Esther van Zimmeren and Geertrui van Overwalle ; Chapter 14: Exhaustion and Patent Rights ; Christopher Heath ; Chapter 15: A New Approach to the Compulsory License Conundrum ; Cynthia M. Ho ; Chapter 16: Balancing "Incentive to Innovate" and "Protection of Competition" ; An African Perspective on Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law ; Mor Bakhoum ; Part V-TRIPS Compliance, Patent Enforcement, and Patent Remedies ; Chapter 17: Patentability Criteria as TRIPS Flexibilities: The Examples of China and India ; Daniel Gervais ; Chapter 18: Proof of Progress: The Role of the Inventive Step/Non-obviousness Standard in the Indian Patent Office ; Feroz Ali Khader and Srividhya Ragavan ; Chapter 19: Pharmaceutical Patent Enforcement: A Development Perspective ; Shamnad Basheer, Jay Sanklecha and Prakruthi Gowda ; Chapter 20: A Research Agenda for the Comparative Law and Economics of Patent Remedies ; Thomas F. Cotter ; Chapter 21: The Rule of Patent Law (RPL) as Established by the TRIPS Agreement and Its Role of Promoting Trade Rather than Invention ; Nuno Pires de Carvalho ; Index
