Intellectual Property: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

✍ Scribed by Aaron Schwabach

• Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Contemporary World Issues
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this timely and readable volume, law professor Aaron Schwabach explores the three traditional categories of intellectual property—copyright, patent, and trademark. He traces their historical development from medieval times to the present and observes how intellectual property law has responded to successive waves of technological change.

Intellectual Property examines all sides of current controversies and crises in this fast-changing field, particularly those resulting from the digital information revolution. Because ideas are not constrained by national borders, the author focuses on intellectual property, including trade secrets, as an international phenomenon, emphasizing the experiences and contributions of a wide variety of countries and cultures. An essential resource for students and researchers—and anyone else who needs to know how to use and/or protect intellectual property.

✦ Table of Contents

Intellectual Property: A Reference Handbook
......Page 2
Contents......Page 10
Preface......Page 14
1
Background and History......Page 20
2 Problems, Controversies, and Solutions......Page 68
3
Worldwide Perspective......Page 118
4
Chronology......Page 150
5
Biographies......Page 168
6
Data and Documents......Page 194
7
Directory of Organizations......Page 244
8
Resources......Page 274
Glossary
......Page 322
Index......Page 326
About the Author......Page 337

✦ Subjects

Юридические дисциплины;Право интеллектуальной собственности;Справочники, каталоги, таблицы