Biotechnology and software patent law
Subtitle: a comparative review of new developments
By: edited by Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini
Series: New directions in patent law
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cheltenham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781849800402
Subjects: Biotechnology; Patent laws and legislation; Patents; Computer software
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini; title: Tailoring patents to different industries / Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley; title: Innovation in the new technological industries : looking for a consistent cooperative model / Valerie Falce; title: The future of the requirement for an invention : inherent patentability as a pre- and post-patent determinant / Justine Pila; title: The experimental use of the patented invention : a free use or an infringing use? / Vincenzo Di Cataldo; title: Patents and competition law : some features of the new interface / Steven D. Anderman; title: Are software patents something special? / Reinier B. Bakels; title: Towards a new instrument of protection for software in the EU? : learning the lessons from harmonization failure of software patentability / Reto M. Hilty and Christophe Geiger; title: Patent governance in the United States : lessons from Bilski v. Kappos / John R. Thomas; title: A decade after the birth of the biotech directive : was it worth the trouble? / Sven J.R. Bostyn; title: Gene patents under fire : weighing the costs and benefits / Christopher M. Holman; title: Patentability of human stem cell or synthetic biology based on inventions / Paul L.C. Torremans; title: Moral limitations to biotech patents in Europe : a quest for higher harmonization / Andrea Ottolia.