The Common Law of Intellectual Property : Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver.

Prelims -- Foreword -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Table of International Instruments -- Introduction -- 1 Emerging Divergences in the Common Law of Intellectual Property -- Historical Perspectives -- 2 Intellectual Property and the Common Law in Scotland c1700-c1850 -- 3 On Clarifying the Role of Originality and Fair Use in Nineteenth Century UK Jurisprudence -- Court Practices -- 4 The Relationship between UK Common Law and the European Systems in the Context of Res Judicata -- 5 The Conduct of a Patent Trial from the Perspective of Practice in the US, UK and Canada -- 6 Emergent Diversity in the Common Law Relating to Intellectual Property -- Patents -- 7 A Common Law Prescription for a Medical Malaise -- 8 Claiming a Life: are Organisms Inherently Unpatentable? -- 9 Divergent Approaches in Defining the Appropriate Level of Inventiveness in Patent Law -- 10 Sufficiency of Disclosure in the Common Law -- Copyright -- 11 Common Law Approaches to the Requirement of Originality -- 12 Finding Originality in Recreative Copyright works -- 13 The Emancipation of Fair Use in Israel -- Trade Marks and Unfair Competition -- 14 Unfair Competition by Misappropriation: the Reception of International News in the Common Law World -- 15 The Common Law and Trade Marks in an Age of Statutes -- 16 Protecting Extraterritorial Goodwill -- 17 Death of a Trade Mark Doctrine? Dilution of Anti-Dilution -- Conclusion -- 18 Postscript -- David Vaver: Curriculum Vitae -- Index.

This book explore the assumption that the patent, copyright and trade mark laws within members of the 'common law family' share a common tradition.

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