Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World

Substantive Patent and Utility Model Law.- Prior Art from the Internet – A Potential Further Reason for Branching off a Utility Model from a Pending Patent Application.- Registration without Examination: The Utility Model – A Useful Model?.- Nonobviousness in German Patent Nullity Proceedings.- Tax Strategy Patents – a Tax Lawyer's View.- Protection of Scientific Creations under Patent and Copyright Law.- Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System.- The Priority Right in Patent Law – Use and Misuse?.- Limitations to Intellectual Property Protection.- The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?.- Interpreting Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law.- A Study on Patent Compulsory License System in China – With Particular Reference to the Drafted 3rd Amendment to the Patent Law of the P.R. of China.- Compulsory Licensing in Chinese Patent Law.- Intellectual Property and Competition (Antitrust) Law.- Deceptive Conduct in the Patent World – A Case for US Antitrust and EU Competition Law?.- Intellectual Property and Article 82 EC.- Patents and Standards: The Antitrust Objection as a Defense in Patent Infringement Proceedings.- Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, and Patent Law.- The Inadequacies of the Section 271 (e)(1) Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court.- Legal and Moral Reflections on Modern Biotechnology in Use & Misuse.- Biotechnological Patenting and Innovation.- Circumventing the Debate over State Policy and Property Rights: Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Law.- Medical Use Claims: EPC 2000 and its Impact on Prosecution and Enforcement.- Purpose and Limits of the Exclusion from Patentability of Medical Methods, Especially Diagnostic Methods.- Special Legislation for Genetic Inventions – A Violation of Article 27(1) TRIPS?.- Employee Invention Law.- Effects of the German Law on Employees' Inventions when Posting Employees Within the European Union.- The Finnish 2006 Act on University Inventions – The Road Map to Identifying, Protecting and Utilizing Patentable Research Results.- University Employee Inventions in Scandinavian and Finnish Law.- Procedure, Enforcement, and Liability.- Patent Trolls – Menace or Myth?.- Liability 2.0 – Does the Internet environment require new standards for secondary liability? An overview of the current legal situation in Germany.- Can China be Forced to Enforce IP Rights?.- Trade Secrets and Patent Litigation.- Reflections on the German Patent Litigation System.- Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law by Notice of Violation, Rights of Consumers and Public Authorities – Comparative Evaluation of the German Status Quo.- Two Major and Long-Lasting Patent Law Issues in Japan.- Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration – Miscellaneous.- Harmonizing Patent Infringement Damages: A Lesson from Japanese Experiences.- The Inescapable Trap – A Case for Reconsideration?.- Patents without Injunctions? – Trolls, Hold-ups, Ambushes, and Other Patent Warfare.- Protecting Technology against Unfair Competition.- (No) Freedom to Copy? Protection of Technical Features under Unfair Competition Law.- Reverse Engineering: Unfair Competition or Catalyst for Innovation?.- Multijurisdictional Aspects of IP.- Negotiations on the Accession to the EU and the Harmonization of Intellectual Property with the acquis communautaire in Light of Globalization.- Cross-border Injunctions in Patent Litigations Following the ECJ Decision in GAT v. LuK – Life after Death?.- Contractual Liability of the Seller Due to Third Parties' Patents and Other IP Rights under German Law and the UN Convention on Sales Contracts.- The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property.- The Extraterritorial Reach of Patent Law.- Synergies Created by International Cooperation in the Patent Area?.- Patents in Europe and their Court – Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel?.- Patents and Developing Countries.- Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy – Transit and Other ‘Free Zones’.- Recent Developments in National IP and Competition Legislation.- The Spanish Patent System: Future Outlook.- Incorporation of Patent Law into Part Four of the Russian Civil Code – A Structural Analysis.- The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law.- Some Remarks On the Third Revision Draft of the Chinese Patent Law.- Some Critical Remarks Concerning the Act on the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia.- Intellectual Property and Public Policies.- Secrecy and the Evolution of an Early Patent System.- Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in a World of Intellectual Property Rights.- Woolly Lines in Intellectual Property Law.- Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform: Flexibility's Achilles Heel.- The Need for Climate Improvement in Intellectual Property Law.- The Patent System – Not More than an Instrument of Public Policy.- Patents and the Economic Incentive to Invent.- The Patent Reform Act and Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions – A Correction of the Intellectual Property Policies?.- The Impact of the Amendments of the Chinese Patent System on the Technological and Economic Progress in China.