Patent Wars: How Patents Impact Our Daily Lives

ISBN-13: 9780190244439 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 360 str.

Thomas F. Cotter

Opis

In Patent Wars, one of America's leading patent scholars provides an accessible overview of U.S. patent law; the arguments for and against patents; and the ongoing debates over topics including the patentability of genes, software, and business methods, the impact of patents on drug prices, "patent trolls," and the smartphone wars.

Recenzje

The patent system touches almost every life in innumerable ways, yet it remains opaque and mysterious. Written by a renowned specialist in the intellectual property field, this book explains, in crystal clear language, both the basics of this system and the way it continues to impact crucial contemporary technologies, from DNA to cell phones. Thomas Edison famously invented (and patented) the light bulb, but after you have learned from the entertaining and deeply knowledgeable Professor Cotter, you will never again be in the dark when it comes to this most interesting and important part of the law.

O autorze

Thomas F. Cotter is the Briggs and Morgan Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He previously served on law faculties at the University of Florida and at Washington and Lee University. Professor Cotter's principal teaching and research interests are in the fields of intellectual property, antitrust, and law and economics. He has authored or coauthored six books and over sixty other scholarly works, and publishes the "Comparative Patent Remedies" blog.