Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property

Edited by Peter Drahos, Professor Emeritus, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and Professor Emeritus, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Gustavo Ghidini, Professor Emeritus, University of Milan and Senior Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, LUISS University, Rome, Italy and Hanns Ullrich, Professor Emeritus, Affiliated Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, Munich, Germany

Contents:

1. Rethinking Patents: from “Intellectual Property” to "Private Taxation Scheme"
Frederick M. Abbott

2. Overplaying the Innovation Card: The Stronger Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law
Steve Anderman

3. Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay
Carlos M. Correa

4. Making Room for Magic in Intellectual Property Policy
Miranda Forsyth

5 . Intellectual Property: The Global Spread of a Legal Concept
Alexander Peukert

6 . The New Paradigm of Creativity and Innovation and Its Corollaries for the Law of Obligations
Marco Ricolfi

7. Inventing Inclusive Patents. From Old to New Open Innovation
Geertrui Van Overwalle

8. The Confuzzling Rhetoric Against New Copyright Exceptions
Peter K. Yu

Index