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"Contents" [2019] ELECD 737; in Takenaka, Toshiko (ed), "Research Handbook on Patent Law and Theory" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) v

Book Title: Research Handbook on Patent Law and Theory

Editor(s): Takenaka, Toshiko

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 2

Extract:

Contents


List of figures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Preface and acknowledgements xi

PART I FOUNDATION

1 History of the patent system 2
John N. Adams
2 International treaties and patent law harmonization: today and beyond 27
Tomoko Miyamoto
3 Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship 55
Ove Granstrand

PART II EXAMINATION PROCEDURE

4 Trilateral cooperation evolving into global cooperation 88
Shinjiro Ono
5 Patenting software-related inventions in Europe 106
Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt and Heinz Goddar
6 Patenting inventions in medical sciences 132
Jan B. Krauss
7 The Lilly written description requirement: a doctrinal `wild card'
of uncertain effect 168
Christopher M. Holman

PART III PATENT ENFORCEMENT

8 Claim construction under US and German patent acts: wording used
in the claims and the invention disclosed in the specification 202
Toshiko Takenaka and Christof Karl
9 The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension
through other tools of intellectual property 239
Horst-Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank
10 Patent enforcement in Germany 250
Tilman Müller-Stoy


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11 The theory and practice of patent damages in Japan and the
US: explaining the differences that remain 272
Christoph Rademacher
12 Resolving patent disputes in a global economy 296
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
13 Specialized IP courts: the Unified Patent Court (UPC) 323
Stefan Luginbuehl and Dieter Stauder

PART IV CURRENT ISSUES

14 Pharmaceutical patents 353
John R. Thomas
15 Patent litigation reform in ...