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A Modern Guide to Patents
Challenges of Patenting in the 21st Century
9781035308590 Edward Elgar Publishing
With contributions from well-known academics and industry experts, this highly relevant Modern Guide presents an overview of patenting in the 21st century. It analyzes a wide range of cases to illustrate the continuous change in the use, application, and regulatory environment of the patent system.
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With contributions from well-known academics and industry experts, this highly relevant Modern Guide presents an overview of patenting in the 21st century. It analyzes a wide range of cases to illustrate the continuous change in the use, application, and regulatory environment of the patent system.
Chapters explain key features of patent management and consider how the patent system may be used in combination with alternative protection means such as trade secrets. They examine specific challenges of patenting, including those presented by artificial intelligence, patent assertion entities, and the ongoing effects of COVID-19. Expert authors provide insights into the roles of standard essential patents and patent enforcement, highlighting key debates and revealing how patents can help address critical societal issues. Ultimately, the Modern Guide emphasizes the benefits of having a structured system to recognize and protect inventions, underscoring the need for ongoing regulatory reform to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.
A Modern Guide to Patents is an essential read for academics and students in intellectual property, economics of innovation, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and innovation policy. Its coverage of recent trends and cutting-edge perspectives also makes this an invaluable resource for patent practitioners, policy makers, economists, and lawyers.
Chapters explain key features of patent management and consider how the patent system may be used in combination with alternative protection means such as trade secrets. They examine specific challenges of patenting, including those presented by artificial intelligence, patent assertion entities, and the ongoing effects of COVID-19. Expert authors provide insights into the roles of standard essential patents and patent enforcement, highlighting key debates and revealing how patents can help address critical societal issues. Ultimately, the Modern Guide emphasizes the benefits of having a structured system to recognize and protect inventions, underscoring the need for ongoing regulatory reform to tackle the challenges of the 21st century.
A Modern Guide to Patents is an essential read for academics and students in intellectual property, economics of innovation, knowledge management, organizational innovation, and innovation policy. Its coverage of recent trends and cutting-edge perspectives also makes this an invaluable resource for patent practitioners, policy makers, economists, and lawyers.
Critical Acclaim
‘Blending deep historical insights with forward-looking analysis, this expertly curated volume examines the enduring relevance of patents in today’s rapidly evolving technological and economic landscape. Thumm and Blind have assembled outstanding contributions from renowned experts, illuminating how this cornerstone of innovation policy must adapt to 21st-century challenges.’
– Carsten Fink, Chief Economist, World Intellectual Property Organization
‘A Modern Guide to Patents is a very engaging, highly contemporary and relevant review of topics at the center of the modern patent system. It draws on the finest minds in the applicable patent-related spaces to assess topics including patent management with an eye on AI and in crisis brought on by pandemics, considerations around PAEs, the ascendency of trade secrets as a dominant form of IP protection, standards and the current issues associated with standard-essential-patents, as well as the evolving role of enforcement in an era marked by both threats to innovation as well as sharing economies in innovation. A Modern Guide to Patents is a great resource for a wide range of readers interested in the role the patent system plays in incenting innovation for the benefit of mankind.’
– David J. Kappos, Former Undersecretary of Commerce and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office; and Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
– Carsten Fink, Chief Economist, World Intellectual Property Organization
‘A Modern Guide to Patents is a very engaging, highly contemporary and relevant review of topics at the center of the modern patent system. It draws on the finest minds in the applicable patent-related spaces to assess topics including patent management with an eye on AI and in crisis brought on by pandemics, considerations around PAEs, the ascendency of trade secrets as a dominant form of IP protection, standards and the current issues associated with standard-essential-patents, as well as the evolving role of enforcement in an era marked by both threats to innovation as well as sharing economies in innovation. A Modern Guide to Patents is a great resource for a wide range of readers interested in the role the patent system plays in incenting innovation for the benefit of mankind.’
– David J. Kappos, Former Undersecretary of Commerce and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office; and Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
