Flanagan, Anne; Montagnani, Lillà Maria --- "Intellectual Property Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010) [2010] ELECD 647

Editor(s): Flanagan, Anne; Montagnani, Lillà Maria

Title: Intellectual Property Law

Sub-title: Economic and Social Justice Perspectives

Topics: Intellectual Property Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 29 October 2010

Number of pages: 232

ISBN (hard cover): 9781848446274

EISBN: 9781849806701

Abstract/Description:

Intellectual Property Law examines emerging intellectual property (IP) issues through the bifocal lens of both economic analysis and individual or social justice theories.

This study considers restraints on IP rights both internal and external to IP law and explores rights disequilibria from the perspective of both the rationale of IP law and the interface with competition law. The expert contributors discuss the phenomenon in various contexts of patent, trade secret; and copyright, each a tool to incentivize the growth of knowledge beyond innovation and creativity.

This timely book will strongly appeal to academics, scholars, and postgraduate and PhD students interested in where and how the balance to intellectual property law is, should or could be set. Policymakers will also find this insightful resource invaluable.