TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cornish, W. R. 1937-
TI  - Intellectual property: Omnipresent, distracting, irrelevant?
SN  - 9780199263073
U1  - 346.048 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, 
KW  - Intellectual property
N1  - Table of legislation
; 1. Inventing
; 'Intellectual property'
; 'Inventing'
; Patents: basic elements; Medical patents; Exclusive rights to explore
; Biotechnology and genetics
; 2. Creating; 3. Branding
N2  - Summary: "Intellectual property rights (IPRs) are increasingly significant elements of economic policy: they are vital to developed countries in an age of global trade. Today's astounding new technologies, stemming from the digital and biotechological revolutions are creating new problems. William Cornish focusses upon the major dilemmas that currently enmesh the subject: the omnipresent spread of IPRs across some recent technologies, the distraction caused by rights that achieve little of their intended purpose, and the seeming irrelevance of IPRs in the face of new technologies such as the internet. What IPRs are good for, and what they should achieve depends upon the law which defines them
ER  -