Introduction Intellectual property rights foster innovation. But if, as it surely does, intellectual property means not just intellectual property rules the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, trade secrets, and unfair competition but also intellectual property institutions the courts, police, regulatory agencies, and collecting soc- ties that administer these rules what are the respective roles of intellectual property rules and institutions in fostering creativity? And, to what extent do forces outside intellectual property rules and institutions economics, culture, politics,...
Introduction Intellectual property rights foster innovation. But if, as it surely does, intellectual property means not just intellectual property rul...
Preface International conferences are not organized overnight especially not when high ranking personalities from politics, business and academia should be offered an adequate platform for addressing and discussing highly relevant contemporary issues. The conference on The Role of Law and Ethics in the Globalized Economy, which took place on May 22 and 23, 2008 in the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Munich, was no exception. When the first preparations started at the end of 2006, neither the subprime crises nor the general crises of the global financial system, whose shock...
Preface International conferences are not organized overnight especially not when high ranking personalities from politics, business and academia shou...
Regenerative Medizin setzt grosse Hoffnungen in die Forschung mit humanen embryonalen Stammzellen. Ebenso umstritten wie diese Forschung selbst ist auch die Patentierung von Erfindungen, die sich auf humane embryonale pluripotente Stammzellen beziehen. Sowohl im regulatorischen Bereich wie auch im Bereich der Patentierung gibt es international grosse Unterschiede. Die Beitrage legen dar und analysieren die aus rechtlicher wie ethischer Sicht komplizierte Rechtslage der Patentierung in diesem Bereich nach dem europaischen Patent-recht und den Patentrechten der VR China, Deutschlands,...
Regenerative Medizin setzt grosse Hoffnungen in die Forschung mit humanen embryonalen Stammzellen. Ebenso umstritten wie diese Forschung selbst ist...
Introduction Intellectual property rights foster innovation. But if, as it surely does, intellectual property means not just intellectual property rules the law of patents, copyrights, trademarks, designs, trade secrets, and unfair competition but also intellectual property institutions the courts, police, regulatory agencies, and collecting soc- ties that administer these rules what are the respective roles of intellectual property rules and institutions in fostering creativity? And, to what extent do forces outside intellectual property rules and institutions economics, culture, politics,...
Introduction Intellectual property rights foster innovation. But if, as it surely does, intellectual property means not just intellectual property rul...
