Comparative Patent Remedies
A Legal and Economic Analysis
Published on 21. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
452 pages
978-0-19-984065-6 (ISBN)
Description
Nations throughout the world receive more patent applications, grant more patents, and entertain more patent infringement lawsuits than ever before. To understand the contemporary patent system, it is crucial to become familiar with how courts and other actors in different countries enable patent owners to enforce their rights. This is increasingly important, not only for firms that seek to market their products worldwide and for the lawyers who provide them with counsel, but also for scholars and policymakers working to develop better policies for promoting the innovation that drives long-term economic growth.
Comparative Patent Remedies provides a critical and comparative analysis of patent enforcement in the United States and other major patent systems, including the European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and India. Thomas Cotter shows how different countries respond to similar issues, and suggests how economic analysis can assist in adapting current practice to the needs of the modern world. Among the topics addressed are: how courts in various nations award monetary compensation for patent infringement, including lost profits, infringer's profits, and reasonable royalties; the conditions under which patent owners may obtain preliminary and permanent injunctions, including cross-border injunctions in the European Union; the availability of various options for potential defendants to challenge patent validity; and other matters, such as the availability of criminal enforcement and border measures to exclude infringing goods.
Comparative Patent Remedies provides a critical and comparative analysis of patent enforcement in the United States and other major patent systems, including the European Union, Japan, Canada, Australia, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and India. Thomas Cotter shows how different countries respond to similar issues, and suggests how economic analysis can assist in adapting current practice to the needs of the modern world. Among the topics addressed are: how courts in various nations award monetary compensation for patent infringement, including lost profits, infringer's profits, and reasonable royalties; the conditions under which patent owners may obtain preliminary and permanent injunctions, including cross-border injunctions in the European Union; the availability of various options for potential defendants to challenge patent validity; and other matters, such as the availability of criminal enforcement and border measures to exclude infringing goods.
Reviews / Votes
"Thomas Cotter in Comparative Patent Remedies has undertaken the formidable, daunting task of describing and comparing the remedies provided in cases of patent infringement for all major patent jurisdictions. Legislative provisions, doctrinal concepts, leading cases, and academic writings from the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, and China are analyzed in a format that starts with a brief introduction of the patent system and continueswith enforcement structures and remedies of injunctive relief and damages. The chapter on Europe also features a discussion of cross-border litigation. With clear writing, an impressive amount of
information, and thorough analysis, Cotter's work is a delightful, stimulating read that will be of great interest to patent judges, litigators, and academics alike."
--Christopher Heath, Boards of Appeal, European Patent Office and former member of the Max Planck Institute, Munich
"Thomas Cotter is the sole author of this book, and although patent, copyright, and trademark laws are complex and oftentimes baffling, he has for the most organized his material in a simple, straightforward way: on the basis of geographic origin of the laws. This book is useful for academics, judges, lawyers, litigators, and anyone in the general public who is interested in this tough subject. It has been written in clear language and it provides a lot of
supporting information for the points he makes." -Paiso Jamakar, BizIndia
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Attorneys who advise clients that own or intend to own multinational patent portfolios, or that market products that may be the subject of multinational patent litigation Patent scholars, economists, judges, journalists, NGOs, and other policymakers who want to better understand, evaluate, or propose changes to the law of patent remedies. Patent scholars who want to learn about laws pertaining to patent remedies in other countries
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 234 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-984065-6 (9780199840656)
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Person
Thomas F. Cotter is the Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, which he joined in 2006. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin Law School, he clerked for the Honorable Lawrence W. Pierce, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, from 1987-88. He practiced law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City from 1988-90, and at Jenner & Block in Chicago from 1990-94. From 1994-2005, he taught at the University of Florida College of Law, where he held a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship and directed the school's Intellectual Property Law Program. From 2005-06, he was a Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is the co-author, with Roger Blair, of Intellectual Property: Economic and Legal Dimensions of Rights and Remedies (2005).
Content
Preface ; Chapter 1: Introduction ; What Patents Are ; International Obligations ; Benefits and Costs of Patent Systems ; On Comparative Law and Economics, and the Plan of this Book ; Identifying Differences and Similarities ; Positing possible reasons for the differences ; Positive analysis ; Normative analysis ; Chapter 2: A Framework for Patent Remedies ; The Impact of Infringement ; Some General Implications ; Implications: Injunctive Relief ; Implications: Damages ; Conclusion ; Chapter 3: Patent Remedies in the United States ; Overview: The U.S. Patent and Judicial Systems ; Patent Remedies: Historical Development ; Injunctions ; Damages ; Damages: Lost Profits ; Damages: Reasonable Royalties ; Enhanced Damages ; Attorneys' Fees, Costs, and Interest ; Awards of Infringer's Profits in Design Patent Cases ; Declaratory Judgments ; Conclusion ; Chapter 4: Patent Remedies in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia ; Introduction ; Overview ; Patent Remedies: An Overview ; Injunctions ; Damages ; Lost Profits ; Reasonable Royalties ; Accounting of Defendant's Profits ; Enhanced Damages, Attorneys' Fees, Interest ; Declaratory judgments, oppositions, and invalidation proceedings ; Summary ; Chapter 5: Patent Remedies in Continental Europe ; Introduction ; Overview ; Remedies ; Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions ; Cross-Border Injunctions and Torpedo Actions ; Damages: General Considerations ; Damages: Lost Profits ; Damages: Reasonable Royalties ; Defendant's Profits ; Enhanced Damages, Attorneys' Fees, Interest ; Oppositions, Invalidation Proceedings, and Declaratory Judgments ; Conclusion ; Chapter 6: Patent Remedies in Japan ; Introduction ; Overview ; Patent Remedies: An Overview ; Preliminary Injunctions, Permanent Injunctions, and Border Measures ; Damages: Overview ; Lost Profits ; Reasonable Royalties ; Defendant's Profits ; Enhanced Damages, Attorney's Fees, Interest ; Invalidation Actions and Declaratory Judgments ; Summary ; Chapter 7: Patent Remedies in China and Selected Other Patent Systems ; Introduction ; China: Overview ; China: Remedies ; China: Injunctions ; China: Damages ; China: Invalidity Proceedings ; South Korea and Taiwan ; India ; Summary ; Chapter 8: Conclusion ; Table of Cases ; Index