The Role of the Patent System in Stimulating Innovation and Technology Transfer for Climate Change

The world increasingly faces the adverse impact of climate change. What role can intellectual property play to stimulate the necessary innovation and technology transfer? Providing an inventory of patent law, policy and information, including certain private initiatives, this thesis discusses issues at the crossroads of intellectual property and climate change, such as: compulsory licensing for climate change, patent offices' preferential treatment policy for 'green' technology and TRIPS compliance, consideration of 'greenness' in substantive patent law, and antitrust disputes affecting green technology sectors. Just as technical progress on climate change is rooted in a open range of scientific experimentation, intellectual property must offer complementary solutions. Whether through public or private initiative, key among these, the thesis concludes, is the optimal provision of information to technology users.
 
Wenn Innovation und Technologietransfer der Schlüssel zur Lösung des globalen Problems des Klimawandels sind, welche Rolle kann dabei das Geistige Eigentum spielen? Das Werk untersucht u.a. die Fragen einer Zwangslizenzierung des Technologietransfers, einer Vorzugsbehandlung von grünen Technologien durch die Patentämter und der TRIPS Compliance.

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Munich Intellectual Property Law Center - MIPLC

Herausgegeben von Prof. Dr. Christoph Ann, Prof. Dr. Robert Brauneis, Prof. Dr. Josef Drexl, LL.M. (Berkeley), Prof. Dr. Thomas Möllers und Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Joseph Straus

The Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC) is a project of four partners from two continents: The Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, the University of Augsburg, the Technische Universität München and the George Washington University Law School, Washington D.C. Apart from an LL.M. program in intellectual property law taught by faculty from all over the world, MIPLC is also devoted to research in all areas of intellectual property, including adjacent areas of economics and science. Together with its partner organisations worldwide, MIPLC also organizes conferences on topical intellectual property issues. In its MIPLC Book Series, the best research results of the Center and proceedings of conferences organized by the Center will be published. The series will cover a wide variety of subjects of interest for academic researchers, as well as for practitioners, including policy makers interested in intellectual property and adjacent fields. They will benefit from the output of research performed by researchers from all over the world who study and work at the Center. In der Schriftenreihe des MIPLC werden die besten Forschungsergebnisse und Tagungsberichte von internationalen Wissenschaftlern, die am Center forschen und arbeiten, veröffentlicht. Die Titel werden eine Vielfalt von Themen behandeln, die insbesondere für Wissenschaftler, Praktiker und Entscheidungsträger, die sich mit dem Recht des geistigen Eigentums und angrenzenden Gebieten beschäftigen, von Interesse sein werden.