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European Intellectual Property Law offers a full account of the main areas of substantive European intellectual property law - including the law of copyright and related rights, patents and plant variety rights, trademarks, design rights, ...
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We consider a model of the innovative environment where there is a distinction between ideas for R&D investments and the investments themselves.
In addition, the new edition analyses a wide range of recent cases.
A clear and practical guide to the categories of subject matter protected by the main Intellectual Property regimes, focusing on their constitutive aspects and differences.
The book examines the methods and reasoning behind key statutory and case decisions, and provides readers with real life examples of intellectual property law in action, helping to bring the subject to life.
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"This book was originally published as a monograph in the International encyclopaedia of laws/Intellectual property law."
The Social Mortgage of Intellectual Property