Intellectual Property Law

This book challenges the philosophical foundations of current trademark systems in the USA and the UK. It argues that the process of trademark crea...

Some would argue that scarcely a day passes without a new assault on our privacy. In the wake of the whistle-blower Edward Snowden's revelations ab...

Trade in goods and services has historically resisted territorial confinement, but trademark protection remains territorial, albeit within an incre...

Economic research shows that small businesses are the primary driver of job creation in the United States. Yet, the capacity of American small busi...

Congress has shown significant interest in altering the current patent system in response to concerns about entities that engage in patent litigati...

Coalitions and Compliance examines how international changes can reconfigure domestic politics. Since the late 1980s, developing countries have bee...

Beginning with a discussion of current international intellectual property institutions and ending with a study of contemporary border enforcement ...

Forty years after the first discussions began with a view to creating a single European patent, 25 EU Member States (with the exception of Italy, S...

On 17 December 2012, following a complex negotiation which lasted 12 years, the European Parliament adopted Regulations (EU) 1257/2012 and 1260/201...

The supplementary protection certificate (SPC) prolongs the term of patents for pharmaceutical products for a maximum of five additional years. The...