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This book provides a comprehensive overview of European Patent Law. It presents a critical analysis of the European patent law system and the proposed changes to it. The book explores the strengths and weaknesses of the European Patent Convention, and the interaction between the national and the European level, as well as across borders.
Much of the debate around the parameters of intellectual property (IP) protection relates to differing views about what IP law is supposed to achieve. This book analyses the object and purpose of international intellectual property law, examining how international agreements have been interpreted in different jurisdictions and how this has led to diversity in IP regimes at a national level.
All EU agencies which have the power to adopt binding decisions share one feature: an organisationally separate administrative review body, i.e. a board of appeal. This title presents a series of case studies covering all the EU boards of appeal in existence, to explore how they function, the kind of reviews they offer, and the issues they raise.
The fields of intellectual property have broadened and deepened in so many ways that commentators struggle to keep up with the ceaseless rush of developments and hot topics. Kritika: Essays on Intellectual Property is a series that is designed to help authors escape this rush. It creates a forum for authors who wish to more deeply question, investigate and reflect upon the evolving themes and principles of the discipline.
This book employs scholarly analysis to ground practical tools for applying the EU Trade Mark law (EUTM) functionality refusal grounds to address business needs when registering trade marks consisting of product characteristics. The study comprehensively examines the absolute grounds for a refusal of registration of functional signs under EUTM. It interprets the functionality refusal grounds through objective tests, focusing on the pro-competition rationale of denying trade mark exclusivity on product features that are technically or aesthetically important for competitors’ ability to trade in alternative products. The work takes a comparative approach looking at the US trade dress functio...
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Um ihrem Ziel - der Forderung gesellschaftlichen Fortschritts - gerecht zu werden, mussen Immaterialguterrechte an ihre rechtspolitische Aufgabe und ihre Schutzgegenstande angepasst sein. Ein Indiz fehlender Anpassung kann sein, dass verschiedene Schutzrechte um dieselben Gegenstande konkurrieren oder - anders gewendet - dass dieselben Schutzobjekte in die Anwendungsbereiche verschiedener Schutzrechte fallen, da es hierdurch zu einer Uberprotektion Geistigen Eigentums kommen kann, die der Gesellschaft mehr schadet als nutzt. Guido M. Becker untersucht mit dem 'Spannungsverhaltnis' von Marken- und Geschmacksmusterschutz die aktuell wohl weitreichendste Uberlappung wesensverschiedener Schutzrechte im europaischen und deutschen Recht. Er hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, Wege fur einen sachgerechten Umgang mit der Schutzrechtskonkurrenz aufzuzeigen.