The Common Law of Intellectual Property
Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2010
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-1-84113-970-8 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays was written in honour of David Vaver, who recently retired as Professor of Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law and Director of the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford. The essays, written by some of the world's leading academics, practitioners and judges in the field of intellectual property law, take as their starting point the common assumption that the patent, copyright and trade mark laws within members of the 'common law family' (Australia, Canada, Israel, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and so on) share some sort of common tradition. The contributors examine, in relation to particular topics, the extent to which such a shared view of the field exists in the face of other forces that are producing divergence. The essays discuss, inter alia, issues concerning court practices, the medical treatment exception, non-obviousness and sufficiency in patent law, originality and exceptions in copyright law, unfair competition law, and cross-border goodwill and dilution in trade mark law.
Reviews / Votes
...this book is a substantial tome on a fast-growing area of the law which is as complex as it is important. In addition to dealing with each of the main intellectual property rights in turn, the book casts a historical eye on the evolution of IP law, and also looks at court practices on a comparative basis. The quality of the essays is very high, combining as they do intellectual rigour with breadth of knowledge. The Commonwealth Lawyer Volume 19. No. 3More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
0 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84113-970-8 (9781841139708)
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Catherine Ng | Lionel Bently | Giuseppina D'Agostino
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Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver
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Persons
Lionel Bently is the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the University of Cambridge. Catherine W Ng is a Lecturer of Law at the University of Aberdeen. Giuseppina D'Agostino is an Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in Canada.
Content
Introduction 1 Emerging Divergences in the Common Law of Intellectual Property: An Overview LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG AND GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO Historical Perspectives 2 Intellectual Property and the Common Law in Scotland c1700-c1850 HECTOR L MACQUEEN 3 On Clarifying the Role of Originality and Fair Use in Nineteenth Century UK Jurisprudence: Appreciating 'the humble grey which emerges as the result of long controversy' KATHY BOWREY Court Practices 4 The Relationship between UK Common Law and the European Systems in the Context of Res Judicata HENRY CARR 5 The Conduct of a Patent Trial from the Perspective of Practice in the US, UK and Canada MARSHAL ROTHSTEIN JAMES F HOLDERMAN CHRISTOPHER FLOYD AND KATHRYN PICKARD 6 Emergent Diversity in the Common Law Relating to Intellectual Property: How Domestic Court Practice Informs Local Evolution of Law ROGER T HUGHES Patents 7 A Common Law Prescription for a Medical Malaise TINA PIPER 8 Claiming a Life: are Organisms Inherently Unpatentable? GRAHAM DUTFIELD 9 Divergent Approaches in Defi ning the Appropriate Level of Inventiveness in Patent Law ANN MONOTTI 10 Suffi ciency of Disclosure in the Common Law: Complexity, Divergence and Confusion SIVARAMJANI THAMBISETTY Copyright 11 Common Law Approaches to the Requirement of Originality SAM RICKETSON 12 Finding Originality in Recreative Copyright works BURTON ONG 13 The Emancipation of Fair Use in Israel LIOR ZEMER Trade Marks and Unfair Competition 14 Unfair Competition by Misappropriation: the Reception of International News in the Common Law World CHRISTOPHER WADLOW 15 The Common Law and Trade Marks in an Age of Statutes GRAEME B DINWOODIE 16 Protecting Extraterritorial Goodwill: Exploring the Impetus Behind a Common Law A KELLY GILL 17 Death of a Trade Mark Doctrine? Dilution of Anti-Dilution LOUIS TC HARMS Conclusion 18 Postscript: Was There Ever a Common Law of Intellectual Property? LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG AND GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO David Vaver: Curriculum Vitae