Margo A. Bagley - Böcker

Patent Law in Global Perspective addresses critical and timely questions in patent law from a truly global perspective, with contributions from leading patent law scholars from various countries. Offering fresh insights and new approaches to evaluating key institutional, economic, doctrinal, and practical issues, these chapters reflect critical analyses and review developments in national patent laws, efforts to reform the global patent system, and reconfigure geopolitical interests.Professors Ruth L. Okediji and Margo A. Bagley bring together the first collection to explore patent law issues through the lens of economic development theory, international relations, theoretical foundations for the patent law system in the global context, and more. Topics include: the role of patent law in economic development; the efficacy of patent rights in facilitating innovation; patents and access to medicines; comparative patentability standards (including subject matter eligibility for biotechnology and software inventions); limitations and exceptions to patent scope and protection (including exhaustion, compulsory licensing, and research exceptions); patents on plants and other living organisms; and the impact of emerging economies on global patent system governance. The contributors provide a wealth of original insight and thought-provoking discussion that will be of great interest and benefit to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners alike.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.Concise yet comprehensive, this book provides an eloquent overview of the international patent system, outlining the agreements states have entered to protect inventions and enforce patent rights. It explores the mechanisms that ensure compliance in relation to these obligations and how they have been interpreted by international bodies.Margo A. Bagley and Rochelle C. Dreyfuss assess different systems for protecting technological innovations, such as trade secrets, design protection, genetic resources, traditional knowledge, digital sequence information and AI. They examine the procedural agreements facilitating patent applications in multiple countries, including the Patent Cooperation Agreement, the Strasbourg Agreement and the Budapest Treaty. The book concludes with the authors’ call for greater attention to be paid to building an equitable system that recognizes all forms of knowledge creation, protects public health and advances the goals of sustainable development.Key Features:Analyzes emerging trends on regional protection, converging standards and global enforcementUses examples from the COVID pandemic to illustrate the patent system's impact on countries of differing income levelsDetails the substantive obligations of the Paris Convention, TRIPS Agreement and preferential trade agreements regarding the protection of technological innovations, including patent, trade secret and design protectionStudents and scholars of patent law and international intellectual property law more generally will greatly benefit from this unique introduction. It is also a hugely beneficial resource for any stakeholders working with and within the patent system or with technological innovation more broadly.