Unfair competition law : the protection of intellectual and industrial creativity / Anselm Kamperman Sanders.
By: Kamperman Sanders, Anselm
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BookPublisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xxiv, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198764871.Subject(s): Industrial property | Intellectual property | Competition, UnfairDDC classification: 346.048 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 346.048 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00017948 |
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This work gives an overview of the current state of the law of unfair competition for the protection of the intellectual creations and industrial assets in the EU, the USA and other major Anglo-American jurisdictions. Despite the growing interest in this area of law in recent years, little attention has been given to the varying legal and economic paradigms that underlie and shape it. This need for a comparative, theoretical examination is heightened by the advent of the information age, coupled with the desire to integrate markets. These developments pose a challenge to the current regimes of intellectual property protection since these are increasingly becoming out of step with the paradigms that shaped the traditional patent, copyright and trademark regimes. In this work, the author explores the alternative to a protective regime based on unfair competition doctrines, and examines the themes of economic justification, shaping legal boundaries, finding a legal justification, practical application, and harmonization of national laws.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, 1995).
Bibliography: (pages 217-228) and index.
Introduction -- Unfair competition, its legal basis -- Applying the general principle in particular circumstances -- The economics of pre-emption and the abuse of a dominant position -- Shaping a new action of malign competition -- Cognizance in malign competition -- Cognizance in intellectual property law -- Malign competition: action and remedy.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction
- 1 Unfair Competition, Its Legal Basis
- 2 Making the General Clause Specific
- 3 The Economics of Preemption and the Abuse of a Dominant Position
- 4 Shaping a New Action; Malign Competition
- 5 Cognisance in Malign Competition
- 6 Cognisance in Intellectual Property Law
- 7 Malign Competition: Action and RemedyConclusion