The inventiveness requirement in patent law
Subtitle: an exploration of its foundations and functioning
By: Lodewijk W.P. Pessers
Series: Information law series -- volume 36; Information law series -- 36
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Alphen aan den Rijn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9789041167316
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Patent laws and legislation
Description: Publisher's description: The Inventiveness Requirement in Patent Law provides a broad and historical perspective on the inventiveness concept in patent law. This groundbreaking work lays a very thorough conceptual basis for further and more in-depth discussions on current standards of inventiveness. Although the pivotal role of the inventiveness requirement in patent law is broadly accepted, it has long remained an ill-defined concept. The question that is often raised in current debates is whether the requirement is capable of functioning as an adequate gate-keeper. Using a methodology guided by geography and chronology, the author weaves together developments in numerous countries focusing primarily on the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands into a full-scale analysis of the inventiveness concept.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The early history of the inventiveness requirement : preliminary remarks --; title: Antiquity and medieval Europe --; title: The Republic of Venice --; title: The Venetian patent practice : spreading through Europe --; title: England --; title: United States --; title: The inventiveness requirement in its modern phase : preliminary remarks --; title: Inventiveness in the age of modernization --; title: The further rise of the inventiveness standard --; title: The invention, the inventor and the workman --; title: Systematization ---- Summary and conclusion.