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"Contents" [2013] ELECD 592; in Pittard, Marilyn; Monotti, L. Ann; Duns, John (eds), "Business Innovation and the Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) v

Book Title: Business Innovation and the Law

Editor(s): Pittard, Marilyn; Monotti, L. Ann; Duns, John

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781001615

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface xvii

PART I BUSINESS INNOVATION: INTRODUCING THE
PERSPECTIVES

1. Perspectives and themes 3
John Duns, Ann L. Monotti and Marilyn Pittard
2. Failed collaboration: the misappropriation of business
opportunities, ideas and advantages by prospective co-venturers,
financiers and brokers 20
Paul Finn

PART II INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN BUSINESS:
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PERSPECTIVES

3. Innovation through the lens of intellectual property law: rights in
employee inventions 41
Ann L. Monotti
4. Double or nothing: technology transfer under the Bayh-Dole Act 52
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss
5. Establishing clear rights in academic employee inventions:
lessons learnt from University of Western Australia v Gray 74
Ann L. Monotti
6. Professional and academic employee inventions: looking beyond
the UK paradigm 92
Justine Pila
7. EU perspectives on employees' inventions 111
Marie-Christine Janssens




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PART III THE EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW PERSPECTIVE
ON PROTECTING BUSINESS RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT

8. Innovation through the lens of labour and employment law 133
Marilyn Pittard
9. Resolving invention ownership disputes: limitations of the
contract of employment 144
Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl
10. The innovative worker: genius, accidental inventor or thief? 164
Marilyn Pittard
11. Employees' inventions and the employment contract: a European
Union perspective 188
Riccardo Del Punta
12. US employment law perspectives on the issue of who owns an
employee's invention 199
Richard Bales
13. Taking the long view on competition and the mobile employee:
lessons from the United States history of efforts ...