The Logic of Innovation

Johanna Gibson is Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Director of the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute (QMIPRI), Queen Mary University of London, where she researches and teaches in intellectual property law. Gibson brings expertise in literature, art history, critical and cultural theory, and law, and consults regularly to industry, the profession, and UK and European government institutions. Gibson is widely published, including the following Ashgate monographs, Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health (2009), Creating Selves: Intellectual Property and the Narration of Culture (2006), Community Resources: Intellectual Property, International Trade and the Protection of Traditional Knowledge (2005), as well as being the editor of Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development (2008). Before moving to academia, the author was in commercial practice in intellectual property, media and competition law at the Melbourne, Australia office of a top-tier international law firm.

Contents: Works of Lewis Carroll; Preamble. Use: Use. Wonder: Part I Of Properties: Cause; Space; Chance. Part II Of Objects: Taste; Risk; Change; Time. Part III Of Games: Rule; Blame; Reason; Account; Witness. Re Use: Re use; After all. Bibliography; Index.