The future of the patent system
By: edited by Ryo Shimanami
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781781000533; 9781781000540
Subjects: Patent laws and legislation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Ryo Shimanami; title: Current situation and vision of the patent system : from the perspective of jurisprudence  -- Ryo Shimanami; title: Current situation and vision of the patent system : from the perspective of economics  -- Kazuyuki Motohashi; title: Ignoring patents  -- Mark A. Lemley; title: The future of IP in Europe  -- Clara Neppel, Berthold Rutz, Guy Carmichael, Konstantinos Karachalios, Shirin Elahi and Ciaran McGinley; title: Taking stock and looking ahead : the future of U.S. patent law  -- Jay P. Kesan; title: Issues and possible solutions in Japan : patent filing activities of Japanese companies, resulting backlog problem, and possible solutions  -- Futoshi Yasuda; title: The Indian patent system : the road ahead  -- N.S. Gopalakrishnan and T.G. Agitha; title: The Brazilian patent system : challenges for the future  -- Viviane Yumy Mitsuuchi Kunisawa; title: Review and perspective of the Chinese patent system -- Zhang Ping.