Biotechnology and Software Patent Law

Contents:

Introduction
Emanuela Arezzo and Gustavo Ghidini

PART I: GENERAL THEMES IN PATENT LAW
1. Tailoring Patents to Different Industries
Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley

2. Innovation in the New Technological Industries: Looking for a Consistent Cooperative Model
Valeria Falce

3. The Future of the Requirement for an Invention: Inherent Patentability as a Pre- and Post-Patent Determinant
Justine Pila

4. The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention: A Free Use or an Infringing Use?
Vincenzo Di Cataldo

5. Patents and Competition Law: Some Features of the New Interface
Steven D. Anderman

PART II: EMERGING THEMES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
6. Are Software Patents Something Special?
Reinier B. Bakels

7. Towards a New Instrument of Protection for Software in the EU? Learning the Lessons from the Harmonization Failure of Software Patentability
Reto M. Hilty and Christophe Geiger

8. Patent Governance in the United States: Lessons from Bilski v. Kappos
John R. Thomas

PART III: EMERGING THEMES IN THE BIOTECH INDUSTRIES
9. A Decade After the Birth of the Biotech Directive: Was it Worth the Trouble?
Sven J.R. Bostyn

10. Gene Patents Under Fire: Weighing the Costs and Benefits
Christopher M. Holman

11. Patentability of Human Stem Cell or Synthetic Biology Based Inventions
Paul L.C. Torremans

12. Moral Limits to Biotech Patents in Europe: A Quest for Higher Harmonization
Andrea Ottolia

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• Gestão da industria biotecnologica
• Lei de Patentes