Global patents : limits of transnational enforcement /

"In today's globalized economy, many inventors, investors and businesses want their inventions to be protected in many, if not most, countries. However, there currently exists no single patent that will protect an invention globally, and despite the attempts in international treaties to si...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trimble, Marketa
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Subjects:
Patent laws and legislation.
Intellectual property.
Table of Contents:
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  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Global Protection for Inventions
  • 1.1 The Territorial Limitations of Patent Protection
  • 1.2 A World Patent
  • 1.3 Parallel Patents
  • 1.3.1 Obtaining a Patent Abroad
  • 1.3.2 Obtaining Patents in Multiple Countries
  • 1.4 Obstacles to Global Protection
  • Chapter 2: Enforcing Parallel Patents
  • 2.1 Private International Law Solutions to the Problem of Enforcement of Parallel Patents
  • 2.1.1 The Brussels Regime
  • 2.1.2 Mitigating the Problems Created By the Brussels Regime
  • 2.1.3 The Hague Convention
  • 2.1.4 The ALI Principles
  • 2.1.5 The CLIP Principles
  • 2.1.6 Obstacles to Implementation of Private International Law Solutions
  • 2.1.6.1 Foreign Patents in U.S. Courts
  • 2.1.6.2 Foreign Patents in German Courts
  • 2.2 Institutional Solutions to the Problem of Enforcement of Parallel Patents
  • 2.3 Obstacles to the Enforcement of Parallel Patents
  • Chapter 3: Protecting an Invention outside the Protecting Country
  • 3.1 Inventions in the Means of Transportation
  • 3.2 Inventions in Transit and Border Measures
  • 3.3 Offers to Sell
  • 3.4 Inventions Assembled Abroad from Components from a Protecting Country
  • 3.5 Acts Abroad Contributing to Infringements in the Protecting Country
  • 3.6 Acts in Multiple Locations
  • 3.7 Limits on the Protection of an Invention outside the Protecting Country
  • Chapter 4: Limits of Protection under the Law of the Protecting Country
  • 4.1 Foreign Parties before U.S. Courts ? A Quantitative View of the Enforcement Problem
  • 4.1.1 Patent Cases Filed in 2004 and 2009
  • 4.1.2 Cases Involving Foreign Parties
  • 4.1.3 Cases Involving at Least One Foreign Defendant and Cases with Only Foreign Defendants
  • 4.1.4 Some Observations about the Data on the Involvement of Foreign Defendants in Patent Litigation in 2004 and 2009
  • 4.2 Injunctions
  • 4.2.1 Cross-Border Injunctions in U.S. Courts
  • 4.2.2 Cross-Border Injunctions in Europe
  • 4.2.3 Challenges to Enforcement of Injunctions Abroad
  • 4.2.3.1 Enforcement of an Injunction
  • 4.2.3.2 Enforcement of a Contempt Order
  • 4.3 Monetary Relief
  • 4.3.1 Punitive Damages
  • 4.3.2 Ongoing Royalties
  • 4.4 Additional Requirements of Recognition and Enforcement
  • 4.5 Obstacles to Enforcement Abroad
  • Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Cases
  • Index.

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