000047940 000__ 02895cam\a22003255i\4500 000047940 001__ 47940 000047940 003__ SzGeWIPO 000047940 005__ 20230626113449.0 000047940 006__ m\\\\eo\\d\\\\\\\\ 000047940 007__ cr bn |||m|||a 000047940 008__ 230303s2017\\\\enk\\\\\o\\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000047940 020__ $$a9780191767845$$qeBook 000047940 040__ $$aSzGeWIPO$$beng$$erda$$cSzGeWIPO 000047940 041__ $$aeng 000047940 1001_ $$aPila, Justine,$$eauthor. 000047940 24500 $$aThe Subject Matter of Intellectual Property 000047940 264_1 $$aOxford:$$bOxford University Press,$$c2017. 000047940 300__ $$a1 online resource 000047940 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000047940 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000047940 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000047940 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000047940 5050_ $$a1. Definitions and intellectual property subject matter -- 2. An overview of intellectual property rights and systems -- 3. A framework for thinking about intellectual property subject matter -- 4. The invention and plant variety -- 5. The authorial work -- 6. The trade mark, other product designations, and goodwill -- 7. The design. 000047940 520__ $$aThis book offers a study of the subject matter protected by each of the main intellectual property (IP) regimes. With a focus on European and UK law particularly, it considers the meaning of the terms used to denote the objects to which IP rights attach, such as ‘invention’, ‘authorial work’, ‘trade mark’, and ‘design’, with reference to the practice of legal officials and the nature of those objects specifically. To that end it proceeds in three stages. At the first stage, in Chapter 2, the nature, aims, and values of IP rights and systems are considered. As historically and currently conceived, IP rights are limited (and generally transferable) exclusionary rights that attach to certain intellectual creations, broadly conceived, and that serve a range of instrumentalist and deontological ends. At the second stage, in Chapter 3, a theoretical framework for thinking about IP subject matter is proposed with the assistance of certain devices from philosophy. That framework supports a paradigmatic conception of the objects protected by IP rights as artifact types distinguished by their properties and categorized accordingly. From this framework, four questions are derived concerning: the nature of the (categories of) subject matter denoted by the terms ‘invention’, ‘authorial work’, ‘trade mark’, ‘design’ etc, including their essential properties; the means by which each subject matter is individuated within the relevant IP regime; the relationship between each subject matter and its concrete instances; and the manner in which the existence of a subject matter and its concrete instances is known. That leaves the book’s final stage, in Chapters 3 to 7. Here legal officials’ use of the terms above, and understanding of the objects that they denote, are studied, and the results presented as answers to the four questions identified previously. 000047940 588__ $$aOnline resource 000047940 650_0 $$aIntellectual property. 000047940 650_0 $$aTrademarks 000047940 650_0 $$aCopyright law 000047940 650_0 $$aPatents 000047940 85641 $$uhttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199688616.001.0001$$yView eBook 000047940 903__ $$aOxford Academic 000047940 904__ $$aArticle 000047940 980__ $$aOS