The Oxford Handbook Of Intellectual Property Law

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We live in an age in which expressive, informational, and technological subject matter are becoming increasingly important. Intellectual property is the primary means by which the law seeks to regulate such subject matter. It aims to promote innovation and creativity, and in doing so to support solutions to global environmental and health problems, as well as freedom of expression and democracy. It also seeks to stimulate economic growth and competition, accounting for its centrality to EU Internal Market and international trade and development policies. Additionally, it is of enormous and increasing importance to business. As a result there is a substantial and ever-growing interest in intellectual property law across all spheres of industry and social policy, including an interest in its legal principles, its social and normative foundations, and its place and operation in the political economy. This handbook written by leading academics and practitioners from the field of intellectual property law, and suitable for both a specialist legal readership and an intelligent but non-specialist legal and non-legal readership, provides a comprehensive account of the following areas: - The foundations of IP law, including its emergence and development in different jurisdictions and regions; - The substantive rules and principles of IP; and - Important issues arising from the existence and operation of IP in the political economy. 01......Page 7 02......Page 9 03......Page 12 1......Page 17 2......Page 40 3......Page 78 4......Page 124 5......Page 151 6......Page 185 7......Page 215 8......Page 246 9......Page 290 10......Page 326 11......Page 361 12......Page 392 13......Page 432 14......Page 470 15......Page 510 16......Page 541 17......Page 575 18......Page 606 19......Page 642 20......Page 709 21......Page 738 22......Page 768 23......Page 811 24......Page 825 25......Page 853 26......Page 899 27......Page 939 28......Page 980 29......Page 1028 30......Page 1047 31......Page 1083 32......Page 1115 33......Page 1157 34......Page 1192 35......Page 1237 Binder1.pdf......Page 0 1......Page 1 2......Page 2 3......Page 3 4......Page 4 5......Page 5 6......Page 6