The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law - Justine Pila

The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law

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Buch | Hardcover
400 Seiten
2010
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-929694-1 (ISBN)
137,15 inkl. MwSt
This book offers a critical analysis of the concept of inherent patentability in international and European law, focusing specifically on TRIPS, the European Patent Convention, relevant EU legislation, and the national laws of Germany and the United Kingdom.
The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law provides a critical analysis of legal conceptions of the invention in UK patent law and under the European Patent Convention. Dr Justine Pila brings to this text her extensive experience in intellectual property law.

A central theme of the book is that the requirement for an invention, properly construed, sets the boundaries of the patent system in two ways. The first is by defining the categories of subject matter capable of supporting a patent, and the second is by restricting the protection conferred by a patent to individual subject matter conceived qua invention. In serving these functions, the requirement for an invention helps to fulfil the public benefit objectives of the patent system by mediating the balance struck by patents between individual patentees and the public.

This book offers an analysis of legal conceptions of the invention in UK patent law and their development from before the first patent legislation of 1623 through the patent system's recent phase of Europeanisation. It includes a detailed study of the contemporary (EPC) requirement for an invention and its construction by the European Patent Office, and an analysis of the legal and policy issues which that construction raises. It also places the UK and EPC law in its interpretive context, including its international statutory context, and offers a detailed account of international law-making in the field of patents.

The Requirement for an Invention in Patent Law is an indispensible reference text for students and academics of intellectual property law in general and contemporary patent law in particular, and will appeal to anyone interested in Europeanisation, international patent law and harmonisation, and the history of the UK patent system. Its elucidation of this complex area also makes it an excellent guide for practitioners.

Justine Pila has undergraduate degrees in Law and Arts and a PhD in Law from the University of Melbourne. She has been admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor in the Victorian Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia, and has worked as a solicitor in Intellectual Property Law and an associate to the Chief Justice of the Australian Federal Court. Since 2004 she has been a Lecturer in Intellectual Property at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of St. Catherine's College Oxford, and a Senior Research Associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC). She teaches and researches in copyright and patents.

INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE REQUIREMENT FOR AN INVENTION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PART II: THE REQUIREMENT FOR AN INVENTION IN THE ERA OF THE EUROPEAN PATENT CONVENTION; CONCLUSION

Erscheint lt. Verlag 18.3.2010
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 249 mm
Gewicht 746 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Wirtschaftsrecht Urheberrecht
ISBN-10 0-19-929694-4 / 0199296944
ISBN-13 978-0-19-929694-1 / 9780199296941
Zustand Neuware
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