Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World

Substantive Patent and Utility Model Law.- Prior Art from the Internet - A Potential Further Reason for Branching off a Utility Model from a Pending Patent Application.- Registration without Examination: The Utility Model - A Useful Model?.- Nonobviousness in German Patent Nullity Proceedings.- Tax Strategy Patents - a Tax Lawyer's View.- Protection of Scientific Creations under Patent and Copyright Law.- Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System.- The Priority Right in Patent Law - Use and Misuse?.- Limitations to Intellectual Property Protection.- The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?.- Interpreting Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law.- A Study on Patent Compulsory License System in China - With Particular Reference to the Drafted 3rd Amendment to the Patent Law of the P.R. of China.- Compulsory Licensing in Chinese Patent Law.- Intellectual Property and Competition (Antitrust) Law.- Deceptive Conduct in the Patent World - A Case for US Antitrust and EU Competition Law?.- Intellectual Property and Article 82 EC.- Patents and Standards: The Antitrust Objection as a Defense in Patent Infringement Proceedings.- Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, and Patent Law.- The Inadequacies of the Section 271 (e)(1) Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court.- Legal and Moral Reflections on Modern Biotechnology in Use & Misuse.- Biotechnological Patenting and Innovation.- Circumventing the Debate over State Policy and Property Rights: Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Law.- Medical Use Claims: EPC 2000 and its Impact on Prosecution and Enforcement.- Purpose and Limits of the Exclusion from Patentability of Medical Methods, Especially Diagnostic Methods.- Special Legislation for Genetic Inventions - A Violation of Article 27(1) TRIPS?.- Employee Invention Law.- Effects of the German Law on Employees' Inventions when Posting Employees Within the European Union.- The Finnish 2006 Act on University Inventions - The Road Map to Identifying, Protecting and Utilizing Patentable Research Results.- University Employee Inventions in Scandinavian and Finnish Law.- Procedure, Enforcement, and Liability.- Patent Trolls - Menace or Myth?.- Liability 2.0 - Does the Internet environment require new standards for secondary liability? An overview of the current legal situation in Germany.- Can China be Forced to Enforce IP Rights?.- Trade Secrets and Patent Litigation.- Reflections on the German Patent Litigation System.- Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law by Notice of Violation, Rights of Consumers and Public Authorities - Comparative Evaluation of the German Status Quo.- Two Major and Long-Lasting Patent Law Issues in Japan.- Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration - Miscellaneous.- Harmonizing Patent Infringement Damages: A Lesson from Japanese Experiences.- The Inescapable Trap - A Case for Reconsideration?.- Patents without Injunctions? - Trolls, Hold-ups, Ambushes, and Other Patent Warfare.- Protecting Technology against Unfair Competition.- (No) Freedom to Copy? Protection of Technical Features under Unfair Competition Law.- Reverse Engineering: Unfair Competition or Catalyst for Innovation?.- Multijurisdictional Aspects of IP.- Negotiations on the Accession to the EU and the Harmonization of Intellectual Property with the acquis communautaire in Light of Globalization.- Cross-border Injunctions in Patent Litigations Following the ECJ Decision in GAT v. LuK - Life after Death?.- Contractual Liability of the Seller Due to Third Parties' Patents and Other IP Rights under German Law and the UN Convention on Sales Contracts.- The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property.- The Extraterritorial Reach of Patent Law.- Synergies Created by International Cooperation in the Patent Area?.- Patents in Europe and their Court - Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?.- Patents and Developing Countries.- Territorial Intellectual Pro

From the reviews:

"It contains 60 articles or essays written by colleagues and friends to celebrate the achievements of Professor Dr Joseph Straus's illustrious career and to mark his 70th birthday. ... The essays are equally of interest to fellow academics, practitioners, judges ... students and policy-makers. ... this is a very readable book which provided food for thought on a wide range of topics and deserves to find its way onto the library shelves of all who teach, research, practise or judge in intellectual property matters." (Alison Firth, European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 32 (4), 2010)

"Liber amicorum comprises 60 (!) articles written by friends, colleagues and pupils from more than 15 different countries in Asia, America and Europe. The articles address a wide range of legal, economic and policy perspectives on various challenges related to the title of the book ... . address a remarkable variety of crucial issues in the complex debates shaping today's technology related intellectual property law. ... the book also features contributions discussing various procedural, multi-jurisdictional and public policy aspects from a more general perspective." (Timo Minssen, Social Science Research Network, September, 2011)