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. With a view to setting in train a process of emergent critical scholarship, this inaugural volume of Kritika brings together leading scholars from the different fields of the discipline, reflecting on the private regulatory power of patents; the role of competition law in the search for the holy grail of balance in IP; the fictions of patent law; the anthropological relativism of IP; the historical transmission processes behind the IP concept; the vanishing paradigm of exclusivity in a digital environment; models of inclusive patents serving open innovation; and the rhetoric behind the copyright ratchet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Rethinking patents : from "intellectual property" to "private taxation scheme" / Frederick M. Abbott 2. Overplaying the innovation card : the stronger intellectual property rights and competition law / Steven Anderman 3. Patent examination and legal fictions : how rights are created on feet of clay / Carlos M. Correa 4. Making room for magic in intellectual property policy / Miranda Forsyth 5. Intellectual property : the global spread of a legal concept / Alexander Peukert 6. The new paradigm of creativity and innovation and its corollaries for the law of obligations / Marco Ricolfi 7. Inventing inclusive patents : from old to new open innovation / Geertrui Van Overwalle 8. The confuzzling rhetoric against new copyright exceptions / Peter K. Yu.