This second edition includes a judicious update of the original data and analysis in light of the significant movement forward that has taken place over the past few years in many of the critical areas that shape the competitive strategies in the use of IP Rights. The authors have lost none of their conviction of the necessity to enhance awareness of the techno-economic effects of intellectual property rights protection on enterprise competitiveness and national growth and development.

Helps you make informed decisions on the impact of General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), limits on "look and feel" in copyrights, protecting trade secrets when employees move, protecting research results, and the need to inquire about others' rights. Also offers scores of practical guidelines and strategies for contract formulation (handling the five phases of contract formulation with precise attention to detail), day-to-day work, planning (promoting inventiveness in companies), dispute resolution, and litigation (assess expense, timing, disruption, and efficiency of litigation).

This title focuses on how to calculate intellectual property damages. It provides in-depth coverage of all standard damage theories used in IP litigation, as well as a comprehensive, step-by-step demonstration of the manner in which damage claims are computed. Written from the vantage point of an expert witness for IP damages, it covers all areas of IP damages calculations, including: patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade dress and trade secrets, and misappropriation.

This commentary covers the entire TRIPs agreement. It adopts a comparative perspective in highlighting related and similar provisions and developments in other international and regional instruments, such as the ones mentioned above and, for instance the European Patent Convention. The volume is based on a close cooperation between the Intellectual Property Law Center of the University of Düsseldorf and the Göttingen Institute for International Law and European Law, which aims at bringing together expertise in intellectual property law and general international law and trade law. It is designed to meet the needs both of the WTO and the intellectual property community.

In todays turbulent global economy, companies establish competitive advantage by creating the most exciting ideas and taking them to market. To sustain this competitive advantage and thrive long term, innovative companies must use intellectual property to protect their valuable ideas. iProperty explores the intellectual property strategies and tactics used by successful companies to protect ideas. ...

Virtually every international IP dispute is difficult. Sometimes, extraordinarily so. Mediation in international IP disputes works best when each person concerned is thoroughly prepared, and brings to the table all his or her interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity, patience, open-mindedness, creativity and commitment. ...

Intended to serve as a reference for both lawyers and non-lawyers who are handling intellectual property aspects of transactions in the area of mergers and acquisitions. A pragmatic approach is taken, offering various options, approaches, examples, and practice tips to guide the you in drafting documents and working through the multiple issues that may arise. The initial chapters provide an overview of the fundamentals of intellectual property and merger and acquisition transactions. Other chapters are devoted to the key phases of the transaction, such as due diligence, transaction agreements, and ancillary closing documents.

This work provides practical guidance on the commercial exploitation of intellectual property from a practitioner's, rather than from a theoretical or academic, perspective. It deals with the legal and commercial issues that arise in relation to intellectual property in a wide range of business transactions, going beyond licensing and assignment to explain IP issues in situations such as takeovers, joint ventures and franchises.

EU Directive 2004/48 EC obliges Member States to seek to achieve 'partial harmonization' of the remedies, procedures and measures necessary to enforce intellectual property law. These obligations provide what may be termed a minimum standard which must be fulfilled by the Member States in the course of their implementation of the Directive. However, the Directive is not faring well at the Member State level.
The three authors' vastly detailed, article-by-article analysis of the fortunes of Directive 2004/48 EC in three EU jurisdictions offers enormously valuable insights into the complex ways Member States respond to Community law, and in so doing provides an important addition to the ongoing inquiry into the nature of the reciprocal tensions between EU law (both judicial and legislative) and the laws of Member States.