"Contents" [2011] ELECD 968; in Arezzo, Emanuela; Ghidini, Gustavo (eds), "Biotechnology and Software Patent Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)

Book Title: Biotechnology and Software Patent Law

Editor(s): Arezzo, Emanuela; Ghidini, Gustavo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800402

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors vii

Introduction 1
Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini

PART I GENERAL THEMES IN PATENT LAW

1 Tailoring patents to different industries 9
Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley
2 Innovation in the new technological industries: looking for a
consistent cooperative model 40
Valeria Falce
3 The future of the requirement for an invention: inherent
patentability as a pre- and post-patent determinant 55
Justine Pila
4 The experimental use of the patented invention: a free use or
an infringing use? 91
Vincenzo Di Cataldo
5 Patents and competition law: some features of the new
interface 105
Steven D. Anderman

PART II EMERGING THEMES IN INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGIES

6 Are software patents something special? 131
Reinier B. Bakels
7 Towards a new instrument of protection for software in the
EU? Learning the lessons from the harmonization failure
of software patentability 153
Reto M. Hilty and Christophe Geiger
8 Patent governance in the United States: lessons from Bilski
v. Kappos 193
John R. Thomas


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PART III EMERGING THEMES IN THE BIOTECH
INDUSTRIES

9 A decade after the birth of the biotech directive: was it worth
the trouble? 221
Sven J.R. Bostyn
10 Gene patents under fire: weighing the costs and benefits 260
Christopher M. Holman
11 Patentability of human stem cell or synthetic biology based
inventions 288
Paul L.C. Torremans
12 Moral limits to biotech patents in Europe: a quest for higher
harmonization 309
Andrea Ottolia

Index 339