Death Of Patents

Peter Drahos: has edited a provocative bundle of essays

Death of Patents is a novel collection of essays inward the Perspectives on Intellectual Property Law in addition to Policy series, published past times Lawtext Publishing Ltd for the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute. Edited past times Australian scholar in addition to one-time QM Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow Peter Drahos, this collection of essays is quite provocative in addition to demands of its readers that they continue an opened upwardly heed piece reading about fabric that they may respect profoundly detrimental to their preconceived notions. On sale at £35, the book's contents are equally follows:

Chapter 1 - Death of a Patent System - Introduction
Peter Drahos, Australian National University, Canberra

Chapter two - Schrodinger's Cat: An Observation on Modern Patent Law
Dr Margaret Llewelyn, Reader inward Intellectual Property Law, in addition to Deputy Director, Sheffield Institute for Biotechnology Law in addition to Ethics (SIBLE), University of Sheffield

Chapter iii - H5N1 Neuropsychological Analysis of the Law of Obviousness
Lachlan S. James, Innovation Capital, Sydney Australia

Chapter four - On Proprietary Rights in addition to Personal Liberties: Constitutional Responses to Post-Industrial Patenting
John R Thomas, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University

Chapter five - Shifts inward India's Policy on Intellectual Property: The Role of Ideas, Coercion in addition to Changing Interests
Anitha Ramanna, Lecturer at the Department of Politics in addition to Public Administration, University of Pune, India

Chapter half-dozen - The Ethics of Patenting - Uneasy Justifications
Sigrid Sterckx, Senior Lecturer Research Fellow, Ghent University in addition to Part fourth dimension Professor, University of Antwerp

Chapter seven - Legal in addition to Ethical Aspects of Bio-Patenting: Critical Analysis of European Union Biotechnology Directive
Geertui Van Overwalle, MD Iur; Professor of Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in addition to at the Universite de Liege

Chapter viii - Is the World Ready for Substantive Patent Law Harmonisation? H5N1 lesson from History
Graham Dutfield, Herchel Smith Senior Research Fellow at Queen Mary Intellectual Property Institute

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