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Grounds of the Immaterial

A Conflict-Based Approach to Intellectual Rights

Av Niels van Dijk

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Beskrivning
This book applies a novel conflict-based approach to the notions of `idea', `concept', `invention' and `immateriality' in the legal regime of intellectual property rights by turning to the adversarial legal practices in which they occur. In doing so, it provides extensive ethnographies of the courts and law firms, and tackles classical questions in legal doctrine about the immaterial nature of intellectual property rights from a thoroughly new perspective. The book follows the legal proceedings of disputes in patent, copyright and trademark law as they circulate from the sites of enterprises, through the offices of law firms, the court registry, the courtroom and the judge's office, until they finally arrive at judgment. In this way, the central matters of a dispute are gradually transformed into immaterial works, inventions, or signs through the ceaseless `material' operations of legal practices. This analysis sheds light on how seemingly abstract philosophical notions are rendered workable as concrete legal concepts with important consequences. Grounds of the Immaterial offers an inventive and refreshing take on intellectual property rights which will be valued by academics and students in philosophy, legal theory, legal anthropology and intellectual property.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2017-07-28
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x undefined mm
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Förlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • ISBN: 9781786432490
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Niels van Dijk, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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’The book successfully investigates different ideological movements in the domain of intellectual property and explains its interaction with legal practice to form the grounds of immaterial. It is lucidly written with relevant illustrations, citations and case law. The value of the book resides in providing the minute details of legal becoming of an item from ideological genesis to actual practice. The legal proceedings in firms and courts are not a new revelation but establishing their connection to philosophy and legal theory in the present contextual setting provides fresh insights. The book also highlights the potential areas of conflicts and uncertainties in legal philosophy and practice in the domain of intellectual property and sets a stage for philosophers, legal scholars and practitioners to explore new ways of interaction. The book is highly recommended to philosophers, legal practitioners, research scholars and readers with a keen interest in law and philosophy in the domain of intellectual property rights.’

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