Competition and intellectual property rights (IPRs) are both necessary for a market to work efficiently and to promote consumer welfare. Properly applied, intellectual property rules define a legal fr
Traditional financial reporting is ill-equiped to deal with intellectual property rights, a growing asset class which continue to to be integral to the financial health of many companies. The invisibi
This book examines the harmonisation of Intellectual Property (IP) policy, law and administration in Africa.Two recent developments have brought this topic to the fore. The first is the escalation of
Recent years have seen a number of pressing developments in copyright law: there has been an enormous increase in the range and type of work accorded protection; the concept of the ‘original work’ has
Competition and intellectual property rights (IPRs) are both necessary for a market to work efficiently and to promote consumer welfare. Properly applied, intellectual property rules define a legal fr
Exploring the relationship between competition law and technology pools, this book provides general purpose details of the Biotechnology Patent Pool scheme while discussing historical developments, ap
This book explores the question of whether software should be patented. It analyses the ways in which the courts of the US, the EU and Australia have attempted to deal with the problems surrounding th
This book examines the harmonisation of Intellectual Property (IP) policy, law and administration in Africa.Two recent developments have brought this topic to the fore. The first is the apparent escal
This work examines the endeavours of the Arabian Peninsula States – namely the Gulf Cooperation Council member States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar Saudi Arabia and the UAE, as well as Jordan and Ye
Copyright law regulates creativity. It affects the way people create works of authorship ex-ante and affects the status of works of authorship significantly ex-post. But does copyright law really unde
The Supreme Court of the United States in Feist v. Rural (1991) required that databases must have a minimal degree of creativity for copyright. The book gives an account of that decision’s conceptual
