Patent Law in Global Perspective

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction Table of Abstracts Chapter 1: Public Welfare and the International Patent System Ruth L. Okediji Part I-Global Patent Law and the Political Economy of Harmonization Chapter 2: Intellectual Property Lawmaking, Global Governance, and Emerging Economies Rochelle C. Dreyfuss Chapter 3: US Executive Branch Patent Policy, Global and Domestic Arti K. Rai Chapter 4: Transnational Legal Ordering and Access to Medicines Gregory Shaffer and Susan K. Sell Chapter 5: The Limits of Substantive Patent Law Harmonization Graham Dutfield Part II-Global Approaches to Subject Matter Standards and Eligibility Chapter 6: Patent Barbarians at the Gate: The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of U.S. Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Disputes Margo A. Bagley Chapter 7: Patent Law's Problem Children: Software and Biotechnology in Transatlantic Context Dan L. Burk Chapter 8: Patenting Plants: A Comparative Synthesis Mark D. Janis Chapter 9: Enablement and Written Description Matthew Fisher Part III-Patents, Institutions, and Innovation Pathways Chapter 10: Indigenous Developmental Networks and the Non-developmental State: Making Intellectual Property Work for Indigenous People without Patents Peter Drahos Chapter 11: Observing the Patent System in Social and Political Perspective: A Case Study of Europe Shobita Parthasarathy and Alexis Walker Chapter 12: Toward a Theory of Regulatory Exclusivities John R. Thomas Part IV-Exceptions and Limits to Patent Protection Chapter 13: A False Sense of Security Offered by Zero-Price Liability Rules? Research Exceptions in the United States, Europe, and Japan in an Open Innovation Context Esther van Zimmeren and Geertrui van Overwalle Chapter 14: Exhaustion and Patent Rights Christopher Heath Chapter 15: A New Approach to the Compulsory License Conundrum Cynthia M. Ho Chapter 16: Balancing "Incentive to Innovate" and "Protection of Competition" An African Perspective on Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law Mor Bakhoum Part V-TRIPS Compliance, Patent Enforcement, and Patent Remedies Chapter 17: Patentability Criteria as TRIPS Flexibilities: The Examples of China and India Daniel Gervais Chapter 18: Proof of Progress: The Role of the Inventive Step/Non-obviousness Standard in the Indian Patent Office Feroz Ali Khader and Srividhya Ragavan Chapter 19: Pharmaceutical Patent Enforcement: A Development Perspective Shamnad Basheer, Jay Sanklecha and Prakruthi Gowda Chapter 20: A Research Agenda for the Comparative Law and Economics of Patent Remedies Thomas F. Cotter Chapter 21: The Rule of Patent Law (RPL) as Established by the TRIPS Agreement and Its Role of Promoting Trade Rather than Invention Nuno Pires de Carvalho Index