@article{24321, note = {"A joint research project by the Max Planck Institute, Munich & CEIPI, Strasbourg."}, author = {Heath, Christopher., and Heath, Christopher, and Petit, Laurence, and Stauder, Dieter,}, url = {http://tind.wipo.int/record/24321}, title = {Patent enforcement worldwide : a survey of 15 countries: writings in honour of Dieter Stauder /}, abstract = {Patent infringement procedures are an instrument whereby the patentee defends his protected invention against unlawful use by a third party (the alleged infringer). The difficulty is that the patent is no solid object whose damage can be easily detected; it belongs to that group of rights whose infringement is not easy to determine. The patent is a right described by words, and those words, written into a claim, are so complicated that laymen and lawyers alike fail to understand them. This is the special feature which distinguishes the patent right. This book consists of a series of country r.}, recid = {24321}, pages = {xxxvii, 490 pages ;}, }