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"Contents" [2009] ELECD 232; in Takenka, Toshiko (ed), "Patent Law and Theory" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009)

Book Title: Patent Law and Theory

Editor(s): Takenka, Toshiko

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781845424138

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents


List of figures and tables viii
List of contributors ix
Preface and acknowledgement xii

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS

1 On the economics of patent law and policy 3
F. Scott Kieff
2 Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship 66
Ove Granstrand
3 History of the patent system 101
John N. Adams
4 A spanner in the works ­ or the spanner that works?
Patents and the intellectual property system 132
Jeremy Phillips
5 International treaties and patent law harmonization:
today and beyond 154
Tomoko Miyamoto

PART 2 INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE DIMENSIONS:
PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN EXAMINATION

6 Examination procedure at the European Patent Office 191
Peter Watchorn
7 Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office 224
Andrea Veronese
8 Patent Office oppositions and patent invalidation in court:
complements or substitutes? 246
Jay P. Kesan
9 Trilateral cooperation ­ mutual exploitation of search and
examination results among patent offices with a view to
establishing a system of rationalized work-sharing 271
Shinjiro Ono
10 `Lost in translation': the legal impact of patent
translation errors on claim scope 289
Donald S. Chisum and Stacey J. Farmer

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PART 3 CONDITIONS OF PATENTABILITY: ESSENTIAL
REQUIREMENTS

11 Patenting software-related inventions in Europe 325
Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt and Heinz Goddar
12 Utility and industrial applicability 355
Christopher Wadlow
13 The novelty and priority provision under the United States
first-to-file principle: a comparative law perspective 383
Toshiko Takenaka
14 Back to the Graham factors: nonobviousness after
KSR v. Teleflex ...