Emerging issues in intellectual property : trade, technology and market freedom : essays in honour of Herchel Smith
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Cheltenham, Glos, UK Northampton, MA :
Edward Elgar ,
c2007
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The confusing case of Mr. Smith - Herchel Smith as litigant / Jeremy Phillips
- 2. Auditing intellectual property rights by public research institutes / Michael Blakeney
- 3. Some initial thoughts on copyright, human rights and market freedom / Uma Suthersanen
- 4. Changing mechanisms in copyright's ontology - structure, reasoning, and the fate of the public domain / Guido Westkamp
- 5. The structure of control - communication systems and copyright law / John Cahir
- 6. Circumventing the idea/expression dichotomy : the use of copyright, technology and contract to deny access to ideas / Noam Shemtov
- 7. The pharmaceutical industry, the evolution of patent law and the public interest : a brief history / Graham Dutfield
- 8. Seabirds, series, and sonar : claiming registered rights / Alison Firth
- 9. Post sale effects of a trade mark : conceptual necessity or a gift to trade mark proprietors? / Spyros Maniatis
- 10. Intellectual property rights as strategic weapon : domestic and international trade considerations / Gary Lea
- 11. Intellectual property law and political transformation : post-Socialist reform in Central and Eastern Europe / Mira Sundara Rajan
- 12. Lessons from negotiating an amendment to the TRIPs-Agreement : compulsory licensing and access to medicines / Duncan Matthews
- 13. The international protection of geographical indications yesterday, today and tomorrow / Gail Evans, Michael Blakeney
- 14. Knowledge and other values : intellectual property and the limitations for traditional knowledge / Johanna Gibson
- 15. Checking the lie of the land : current trends in bioprospecting related laws / Florian Leverve
- 16. Avenues to ensure full participation of rural communities in access authorisation processes in Cameroon and South Africa / Marcelin Tonye Mahop
- 17. NERICA, food security and intellectual property : from the green to the gene revolution / Muriel Lightbourne
- 18. The appropriation of American Indian names and images in trade marks : the Washington Redskins case / Daphne Zografos.