• General introduction
• In search of a definition of morality in European patent law
• Patent moralities and their traditional adjudications : a critique
• Decision-making in morally controversial biotechnological patent applications
• The participatory budget in Brazil
• Recommendations for reform and conclusion.

This book critiques the decision-making process in Article 53(a) of the European Patent Convention. To date, such decisions have been taken at high levels of expertise without much public involvement. The book eschews traditional solutions, such as those found within legislative, judicial and patent office realms and instead develops a radical blueprint for how these decisions can be put to the public. By examining wide-scale models of participatory democracy and deliberation, this book fills a significant gap in the literature. It will be invaluable for patent lawyers, academics, practitioners and intellectual property and patent officials.
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• Introduction
• Statutory IP laws
• Chinese patenting trends and the role of the state
• IP measures for transmission and exploitation of technological knowledge
• New/experimental IP-related measures
• Administration of IP rights
• IP enforcement
• Implications for businesses
• Implications for policymakers
• Conclusions.

This book evaluates the risks that China's intellectual property (IP) regime poses to innovation. China's IP regime has been heavily criticized as potentially stifling innovation. However, the country's innovation capabilities have risen significantly and major reforms have recently been made to its IP regime. How risky, really, is China's IP regime for innovation? This book investigates this question at different units of analysis based on a multidisciplinary assessment involving law, management, economics, and political science. Specifically, it critically appraises China's substantive IP laws, measures for boosting patent quantity and quality, measures for transmitting and exploiting technological knowledge, new experimental IP measures, and China's systems for administering and enforcing IP. Practitioners and scholars from various backgrounds can benefit from the up-to-date analysis as well as the practical managerial tools provided, including risk assessment matrices for businesses and recommendations for institutional reform. .
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• part 5. Understanding the changing climate system and the role of climate research; Executive Office for Immigration Review; Oversight of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Gun violence prevention and enforcement; National Science Foundation; Members' Day.

• part 1A. Department of Commerce: Justification of the budget estimates
• part 1B. Department of Commerce: Justification of the budget estimates
• part 1C. FY 2020 justification of the budget estimates, USDA explanatory notes, volume
• 2: Farm production and conservation; Rural development; Food, nutrition, and consumer services; Trade and foreign agricultural affairs; General provisions; Special exhibits
• part 2A. Department of Justice: Justification of the budget estimates
• part 2B. Department of Justice: Justification of the budget estimates
• part 3. Justification of the budget estimates: Office of Science and Technology Policy; National Space Council; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Science Foundation
• part 4. Justification of the budget estimates: Commission on Civil Rights; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; International Trade Commission; Legal Services Corporation; Office of the United States Trade Representative; State Justice Institute
• part 5. Understanding the changing climate system and the role of climate research; Executive Office for Immigration Review; Oversight of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; Gun violence prevention and enforcement; National Science Foundation; Members' Day
• part 6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Department of Commerce; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Department of Justice; Oversight of the 2020 census preparation; Outside witness testimony.

• Foreword
• Preface
• The definition of biobanks : finding the focal points
• Evolving governance and structural frameworks for biobanks : regulation, guidelines and policy
• Uncertain legal status for use of biological materials in pre-patent research
• Regulating human genetic databases in Europe
• Copyrights within genetic database and biobanks
• Protection of 'genetic data' : trade secrets law and public research
• Contractual agreements and IP policies of biobanks
• Consequences of involving IPR within biobanks
• End of biobanks and the role of IPR : from resources in common to utilization for common.

"[This book] addresses the implications that intellectual property rights (IPRs) have in the context of biobanks and how they need to be addressed in the governance of biobank-based research. The boom in biobanks and health databases as research infrastructures have evoked various legal and ethical debates. Since then numerous new developments have emerged such as digitalization, big-data research, and artificial intelligence that have important implications for biobank-based research and collaborations. This paradigm offers new legal challenges for commercial involvement, particularly within a publicly funded setting. In this innovative book, the author shows that securing maximum social benefit out of the knowledge emanating from the use of biobank resources lies in managing IP inputs and outputs effectively in keeping with the values that are core to such research."-- Back cover.

• 1 Background for Developing and Implementing a Patent Strategy 1
• 2 The Structure of a Patent 17
• 3 The Path to Obtaining Patents 37
• 4 Identifying Patentable Inventions 47
• 5 Identifying What Has Yet to Be Invented 63
• 6 Prioritizing the Inventions 77
• 7 Prioritizing Your Patent Applications 91
• 8 Proposing and Writing Claims 107
• 9 Conducting Prior Art Searches 131
• 10 The Mindsets of Innovators and Attorneys and other Cautionary Notes 145
• 11 Reviewing Your Proposed Patent Applications 157
• 12 Writing Your Patent Applications 169
• 13 The Next Step: Prosecution of Your Patent Application 199
• 14 What Next? 221
• 15 Final Thoughts 245
• Appendix 1 Electrophotography: Building a Patent Portfolio in a Mature but Evolving Field 255.
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This book is aimed at the innovators who drive the advances from which we all benefit. This includes scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to financially benefit from their innovations. The book describes how to build patent portfolios that will properly protect your technology and be of financial benefit. The tools that innovators need to have to generate patents are presented in detail.
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• Preface
• Introduction to information technology and intellectual property law
• Essentials of copyright law
• Copyright and computer programs
• Non-textual copying of computer programs and emulating the functions of a computer program
• Copyright in databases
• The sui generis database right
• Copyright in the information society
• Design law, computer graphics and typefaces
• Semiconductor topography right
• Confidential information, trade secrets and information technology
• Essentials of patent law
• Patents and computer-implemented inventions
• Essentials of trade mark law and the law of passing off
• Trade marks, goodwill and the internet
• Competition law
• Jursidiction and intellectual property aspects of information technology.

Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law is a complete exploration of the relationship between information technology and intellectual property laws a very wide-ranging and complex, ever changing area of law. It provides up-to-date coverage and analysis of the intellectual property laws applicable to all forms of computer software. placing the law in the context of computer use examining copyright, database rights, patents, trade marks, design rights and the law of confidence. There have been numerous cases before the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) recently, in particular involving the use of trade marks on the Internet, and these are analysed in detail with the implications of the judgments explained in a practical and accessible way. Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law includes developments surrounding ISPs (Internet Service Providers), for example injunctions against ISPs both in the UK and before the Court of Justice of the European Union, and coverage of the Digital Economy Act provisions. It can either be read from cover to cover as a thorough introduction to the subjects addressed or be used as a very useful starting point for a specialist practitioner faced with a particular problem on a particular case. With this in mind Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law is an essential addition to any an IT and IP practitioner's bookshelf as well as a useful textbook for non-specialists as well as advanced undergraduate and taught postgraduate IT and IP courses.
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• Introduction
• The TRIPS compulsory licensing regime and access to medicines
• Compulsory licensing and access to medicines in Africa
• The TRIPS regime for test data protection and access to medicines
• The exhaustion doctrine, parallel trade, and public health
• Pharmaceutical patents and the obligation to protect health
• Patents, access to medicines and the human right to development
• Regional trade agreements, TRIPS-plus provisions and the African access to medicines conundrum
• Free trade and economic collaboration as paradigms for access to medicines.

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 property (IP) has been identified as one of the factors impeding access to affordable medicines in developing countries, especially in relation to the HIV pandemic. This book examines the scope of the existing flexibilities in international IP law for promoting access to medicines. It analyses the factors accounting for the underutilisation of the flexibilities in Africa and the measures that African countries may adopt to address the IP barriers to access to medicines. It explores the regional strategies that Africa can adopt to resolve the tension between IP regimes and access to medicines. It also highlights how trade liberalisation and regional integration can play crucial roles in enhancing the use of TRIPS flexibilities, local pharmaceutical manufacturing and access to medicines in Africa. By adopting qualitative research methods to investigate how African countries may effectively use IP to serve public health purposes through the stratagem of regional integration, this book will be a valuable contribution to the existing literature on IP.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Patent profile
• 3. How to use databases in patent search
• 4. Practical exercises in patent search
• 5. Use of advanced patent search
• 6. Practical exercises by the advanced patent search
• 7. How to read a patent
• 8. How to write a patent: basic information
• 9. Final conclusions and perspectives.
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This book provides detailed instructions for reading and writing a patent. The book presents useful instructions for undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-doctoral, researchers and professors in the field of Chemistry and related areas. Written from a practical point of view it answers the simple and often asked question: how should I read and write a patent? The book is particularly directed to graduate students, who are initiating their research and often lack experience with patents. The ability to write and comprehend patents is fundamental for the success of their projects.
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• Volume I. Perspectives, trade secrets and patents
• Volume II. Copyrights, trademarks and state IP protections

• Overview
• Substantive patent law
• Jurisdiction and venue in patent actions
• Markman proceedings
• Preliminary injunctive relief
• Bifurcation
• Discovery mechanics
• Substantive discovery
• Attorney-client privilege and work product immunity
• Summary judgment : general considerations
• Summary judgment in patent cases
• Evidence issues respecting summary judgment
• Practical case management issues
• Appendices.

• Introduction
• The political economy of Chinese patent legislation
• The implementation of Chinese patent policy
• The political economy of Chinese copyright legislation
• The implementation of Chinese copyright policy
• Chinese trademark legislation
• The implementation of trademark policy in China
• Conclusion.

Over the past three decades, China has transformed itself from a stagnant, inward, centrally planned economy into an animated, outward-looking, decentralized market economy. Its rapid growth and trade surpluses have caused uneasiness in Western governments, which perceive this growth to be a result of China's rejection of international protocols that protect intellectual property and its widespread theft and replication of Western technology and products. China's major trading partners, particularly the United States, persistently criticize China for delivering, at best, half-hearted enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) norms. Despite these criticisms, Zhenqing Zhang argues that China does respect international intellectual property rights, but only in certain cases. In Intellectual Property Rights in China, Zhang addresses the variation in the effectiveness of China's IPR policy and explains the mechanisms for the uneven compliance with global IPR norms. Covering the areas of patent, copyright, and trademark, Zhang chronicles how Chinese IPR policy has evolved within the legacy of a planned economy and an immature market mechanism. In this environment, compliance with IPR norms is the result of balancing two factors: the need for short-term economic gains that depend on violating others' IPR and the aspirations for long-term sustained growth that requires respecting others' IPR. In case studies grounded in theoretical analysis as well as interviews and fieldwork, Zhang demonstrates how advocates for IPR, typically cutting-edge Chinese companies and foreign IPR holders, can be strong enough to persuade government officials to comply with IPR norms to achieve the country's long-term economic development goals. Conversely, he reveals the ways in which local governments protect IPR infringers because of their own political interests in raising tax revenues and creating jobs.
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• Requirements of patentability
• Inventors and inventors' rights
• Procedures before the patent office
• The scope of patent rights
• The enforcement of patent rights
• Specific issues.

This first comprehensive work in English on all aspects of Japanese patent law presents 66 cases with an expert explanatory commentary from academics, attorneys, judges and members of the Japanese Patent Office. This book deals with the whole range of Japanese patent law: requirements of patentability, inventorship and ownership issues, procedures before the Patent Office, scope of protection and interpretation of claims, enforcement and infringement procedures, patent term extensions, licensing and antitrust issues, utility models and more. Many of the cases appear in English for the first time.

On July 20, 1969, Americans had their eyes and ears glued to their TVs and radios. NASA's successful moon landing left the nation in awe. This moment inspired inventors and engineers across the nation. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, we share with you 20 patents that were inspired by the space race and how they reshaped the world.
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• Preface: Facts, Alternative Facts and Patent Literature
• 1: Electric telegraph (1840)
• 2: Vulcanisation of rubber (1844)
• 3: Mauveine (1857)
• 4: Dynamite (1868)
• 5: Celluloid (1869)
• 6: Barbed wire (1874)
• 7: Gelignite (1875)
• 8: The telephone (1876)
• 9: Electric lamp (1880)
• 10: Alternating current motors (1888)
• 11: Diesel compressor engine (1896)
• 12: Acetylsalicylic acid (1900)
• 13: Wireless telegraphy (1901)
• 14: Tarmac (1904)
• 15: The diode (1905)
• 16: The triode (1907)
• 17: Haber-Bosch process (1910)
• 18: Cellophane (1918)
• 19: Insulin (1923)
• 20: Television (1924)
• 21: Frozen food (1930)
• 22: Monopoly (1935)
• 23: Polythene (1937)
• 24: Nylon (1938)
• 25: Xerography (1940)
• 26: Polytetrafluoroethylene (1941)
• 27: Frequency-hopping (1942)
• 28: Synthetic polymers: Terylene (1946)
• 29: Radar (1947)
• 30: Point-contact transistor (1947)
• 31: Semiconductor amplifier (1950)
• 32: Programmable stored-memory computer (1951)
• 33: Barcode (1952)
• 34: Cavity magnetron (1953)
• 35: Building construction (1954)
• 36: Cortisone (1956)
• 37: Contraceptive pill (1956)
• 38: Solar cells (1957)
• 39: The maser (1959)
• 40: Silicon chip: I. R.N. Noyce (1961)
• 41: Velcro (1961)
• 42: Lycra (1962)
• 43: Bouncing bomb (1963)
• 44: Silicon chip: II J.S. Kilby (1964)
• 45: Silicon chip: III. R.N. Noyce (1964)
• 46: Shape memory alloys (1965)
• 47: Light-emitting diodes (1966)
• 48: Ruby laser (1967)
• 49: Superalloys (1967)
• 50: Ring-pull (1967)
• 51: Silicon chip: IV. J.S. Kilby (1969)
• 52: Computer mouse (1970)
• 53: Quorn (1971)
• 54: Kevlar (1972)
• 55: Post-it notes (1972)
• 56: Computerised tomography (1973)
• 57: Cephalosporins (1973)
• 58: Charge-coupled device (1974)
• 59: Miniature electronic calculator (1974)
• 60: Antidepressants: fluoxetine (1977)
• 61: Artificial heart (1980)
• 62: Lithium-ion batteries (1981)
• 63: Monoclonal antibodies (1982)
• 64: RSA encryption (1983)
• 65: Recombinant DNA technology (1984)
• 66: Stereolithography (1986)
• 67: Polymerase chain reaction (1987)
• 68: Ceramic oxide superconductors (1988)
• 69: Digital compression (1988)
• 70: Cyanobiphenyl liquid crystals (1990)
• 71: Vancomycin (1992)
• 72: Magnetic resonance imaging (1992)
• 73: Personalised medicine (1992)
• 74: Organic light-emitting diodes (1993)
• 75: Fuel cells (1995)
• 76: Blue light-emitting diodes (1995)
• 77: Herceptin (trastuzumab) (1998)
• 78: Tencel (1998)
• 79: Three-dimensional printing (1998)
• 80: Automated DNA sequencing (1998)
• 81: Patenting genes (1998)
• 82: PageRank (2001)
• 83: Robotic surgery (2002)
• 84: Quantum computing (2003)
• 85: Flash memory (2004)
• 86: Hydrogels (2004)
• 87: Lithography (2008)
• 88: iPod (2008)
• 89: Hyaluronic acid (2008)
• 90: Wireless mesh networks (2008)
• 91: Polylactic acid (2009)
• 92: Electric vehicles (2009)
• 93: Biodiesel (2009)
• 94: Stem cells (2011)
• 95: Fibre optics (2013)
• 96: Drones (2014)
• 97: Graphene (2014)
• 98: Metamaterials (2017)
• 99: Gene editing (CRISPR) (2017)
• 100: Video streaming (2017).
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What would our world today be like without inventions like tarmac, aspirin, liquid crystals, and barbed wire? This guide shows how patents and the inventions they describe have shaped the 21st century. It gives us insights into the inventions, big and small, that have had huge impacts, many unexpected, on multiple spheres of our lives, from popular culture and entertainment, to global health, to transportation, to the waging of war. It features patent documents that date from the mid-19th century to the present. Patent documents describe inventions and represent an accurate and rich source of information about the history and current state of modern technology, as patents are examined and their accuracy can be challenged. The subject matter covers many technical areas. Patents discussed include, for example, Morse code, the diode, triode, transistors, television, frozen foods, ring-pull for soft drink cans, board games such as Monopoly, gene editing, metamaterials, MRI, computerised tomography, insulin, and monoclonal antibodies such as Herceptin. The text is illustrated with drawings adapted from the original patent documents. Patent numbers are included to allow interested readers to trace the documents. Inventions described in the patents are placed in historical perspective. For example, the book discusses the role of the cavity magnetron and radar in World War II, and the influence of the diode on the development of broadcasting at the beginning of the 20th century.
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