Clean Tech Intellectual Property: Eco-marks, Green Patents, and Green Innovation, by Eric L. Lane, is the first comprehensive review of intellectual property and clean technology. It analyzes the interplay of clean technologies and IP regimes using industry trends, legal developments and case studies to demonstrate how IP law is influencing the growth of clean tech and how green business models are shaping IP practice. The book explains how clean tech companies can leverage green patents to create and expand their businesses and includes strategies and cases studies relating to prosecuting green patent applications, building green patent portfolios, and licensing clean technologies. The effects of significant green patent and trademark litigation on the clean tech industry are also examined. Special focus is given to issues of "eco-mark" prosecution and green branding, from the brand owner perspective and from a consumer protection standpoint, including a discussion of "greenwashing." The book critically examines clean tech IP policies and discusses the international debate over the role of IP in efforts to curb global climate change.
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Für Beruf und Forschung
IP Practitioners
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Höhe: 235 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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978-0-19-973709-3 (9780199737093)
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Eric L. Lane is Special Counsel at Luce Forward in San Diego, where he is in the Intellectual Property practice group and is a founding member of the firm's Climate Change & Sustainable Technology practice. Mr. Lane is an IP generalist with broad-based experience in all areas of intellectual property law. His practice includes patent prosecution and counselling, trademark prosecution and counselling, copyright prosecution and counselling, IP litigation, IP due diligence and IP licensing. His patent work involves complex technologies such as medical devices, chemical arts, and clean technology, including LED systems, carbon capture and sequestration methods, energy efficiency technology and energy storage systems. He is registered to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.
Mr Lane has published articles on a wide range of legal subjects in such publications as the John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property Law, the New York Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Mealey's (Lexis-Nexis) Litigation Report on Intellectual Property, IPLaw360, New Matter (the Official Publication of the IP Law Section of the State Bar of California), and the San Diego Daily Transcript.
Contents Chapter 1: Clean Tech IP is for Real Chapter 2: Patenting Green: Strategies for Prosecuting Clean Tech Patent Applications Chapter 3: Building A Green Patent Portfolio Chapter 4: Green Technology Transfer and Licensing Chapter 5: Green Patent Litigation Past, Present and Future Chapter 6: The Rise of Clean Tech Non-Practicing Patentees Chapter 7: Protecting Eco-marks and Green Brands Chapter 8: Greenwashing and Eco-Mark Abuse Chapter 9: Eco-mark Litigation Chapter 10: Green Patent Policies and Initiatives: Transfer, Tracking and Fast-Tracking Chapter 11: The International Debate Over Green Patent Policy and Technology Transfer Index