Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World: Liber Amicorum Joseph Straus

Front Matter....Pages I-XXX
Prior Art from the Internet – A Potential Further Reason for Branching off a Utility Model from a Pending Patent Application....Pages 3-16
Registration without Examination: The Utility Model – A Useful Model?....Pages 17-29
Nonobviousness in German Patent Nullity Proceedings....Pages 31-48
Tax Strategy Patents – a Tax Lawyer\'s View....Pages 49-58
Protection of Scientific Creations under Patent and Copyright Law....Pages 59-65
Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System....Pages 67-73
The Priority Right in Patent Law – Use and Misuse?....Pages 75-84
The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?....Pages 87-98
Interpreting Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 99-114
A Study on Patent Compulsory License System in China – With Particular Reference to the Drafted 3rd Amendment to the Patent Law of the P.R. of China....Pages 115-126
Compulsory Licensing in Chinese Patent Law....Pages 127-133
Deceptive Conduct in the Patent World – A Case for US Antitrust and EU Competition Law?....Pages 137-156
Intellectual Property and Article 82 EC....Pages 157-175
Patents and Standards: The Antitrust Objection as a Defense in Patent Infringement Proceedings....Pages 177-194
The Inadequacies of the Section 271 (e)(1) Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court....Pages 197-208
Legal and Moral Reflections on Modern Biotechnology in Use & Misuse....Pages 209-227
Biotechnological Patenting and Innovation....Pages 229-241
Circumventing the Debate over State Policy and Property Rights: Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Law....Pages 243-254
Medical Use Claims: EPC 2000 and its Impact on Prosecution and Enforcement....Pages 255-274
Purpose and Limits of the Exclusion from Patentability of Medical Methods, Especially Diagnostic Methods....Pages 275-288
Special Legislation for Genetic Inventions – A Violation of Article 27(1) TRIPS?....Pages 289-304
Effects of the German Law on Employees\' Inventions when Posting Employees Within the European Union....Pages 307-327
The Finnish 2006 Act on University Inventions – The Road Map to Identifying, Protecting and Utilizing Patentable Research Results....Pages 329-338
University Employee Inventions in Scandinavian and Finnish Law....Pages 339-351
Patent Trolls – Menace or Myth?....Pages 355-364
Liability 2.0 – Does the Internet environment require new standards for secondary liability? An overview of the current legal situation in Germany....Pages 365-377
Can China be Forced to Enforce IP Rights?....Pages 379-390
Trade Secrets and Patent Litigation....Pages 391-400
Reflections on the German Patent Litigation System....Pages 401-411
Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law by Notice of Violation, Rights of Consumers and Public Authorities – Comparative Evaluation of the German Status Quo....Pages 413-429
Two Major and Long-Lasting Patent Law Issues in Japan....Pages 431-444
Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration – Miscellaneous....Pages 445-461
Harmonizing Patent Infringement Damages: A Lesson from Japanese Experiences....Pages 463-480
The Inescapable Trap – A Case for Reconsideration?....Pages 481-493
Patents without Injunctions? – Trolls, Hold-ups, Ambushes, and Other Patent Warfare....Pages 495-517
(No) Freedom to Copy? Protection of Technical Features under Unfair Competition Law....Pages 521-533
Reverse Engineering: Unfair Competition or Catalyst for Innovation?....Pages 535-552
Negotiations on the Accession to the EU and the Harmonization of Intellectual Property with the acquis communautaire in Light of Globalization....Pages 555-564
Cross-border Injunctions in Patent Litigations Following the ECJ Decision in GAT v. LuK – Life after Death?....Pages 565-574
Contractual Liability of the Seller Due to Third Parties\' Patents and Other IP Rights under German Law and the UN Convention on Sales Contracts....Pages 575-592
The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property....Pages 593-599
The Extraterritorial Reach of Patent Law....Pages 601-618
Synergies Created by International Cooperation in the Patent Area?....Pages 619-632
Patents in Europe and their Court – Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?....Pages 633-646
Patents and Developing Countries....Pages 647-651
Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy – Transit and Other ‘Free Zones’....Pages 653-673
The Spanish Patent System: Future Outlook....Pages 677-686
Incorporation of Patent Law into Part Four of the Russian Civil Code – A Structural Analysis....Pages 687-702
The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law....Pages 703-711
Some Remarks On the Third Revision Draft of the Chinese Patent Law....Pages 713-728
Some Critical Remarks Concerning the Act on the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia....Pages 729-747
Secrecy and the Evolution of an Early Patent System....Pages 751-761
Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in a World of Intellectual Property Rights....Pages 763-779
Woolly Lines in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 781-791
Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform: Flexibility\'s Achilles Heel....Pages 793-810
The Need for Climate Improvement in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 811-827
The Patent System – Not More than an Instrument of Public Policy....Pages 829-840
Patents and the Economic Incentive to Invent....Pages 841-852
The Patent Reform Act and Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions – A Correction of the Intellectual Property Policies?....Pages 853-871
The Impact of the Amendments of the Chinese Patent System on the Technological and Economic Progress in China....Pages 873-883
Back Matter....Pages 885-906