Common Law of Intellectual Property : Essays in Honour of Professor David Vaver (Hardcover)

Introduction 1 Emerging Divergences in the Common Law of Intellectual Property: An Overview LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG AND GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO Historical Perspectives 2 Intellectual Property and the Common Law in Scotland c1700-c1850 HECTOR L MACQUEEN 3 On Clarifying the Role of Originality and Fair Use in Nineteenth Century UK Jurisprudence: Appreciating 'the humble grey which emerges as the result of long controversy' KATHY BOWREY Court Practices 4 The Relationship between UK Common Law and the European Systems in the Context of Res Judicata HENRY CARR 5 The Conduct of a Patent Trial from the Perspective of Practice in the US, UK and Canada MARSHAL ROTHSTEIN JAMES F HOLDERMAN CHRISTOPHER FLOYD AND KATHRYN PICKARD 6 Emergent Diversity in the Common Law Relating to Intellectual Property: How Domestic Court Practice Informs Local Evolution of Law ROGER T HUGHES Patents 7 A Common Law Prescription for a Medical Malaise TINA PIPER 8 Claiming a Life: are Organisms Inherently Unpatentable? GRAHAM DUTFIELD 9 Divergent Approaches in Defi ning the Appropriate Level of Inventiveness in Patent Law ANN MONOTTI 10 Suffi ciency of Disclosure in the Common Law: Complexity, Divergence and Confusion SIVARAMJANI THAMBISETTY Copyright 11 Common Law Approaches to the Requirement of Originality SAM RICKETSON 12 Finding Originality in Recreative Copyright works BURTON ONG 13 The Emancipation of Fair Use in Israel LIOR ZEMER Trade Marks and Unfair Competition 14 Unfair Competition by Misappropriation: the Reception of International News in the Common Law World CHRISTOPHER WADLOW 15 The Common Law and Trade Marks in an Age of Statutes GRAEME B DINWOODIE 16 Protecting Extraterritorial Goodwill: Exploring the Impetus Behind a Common Law A KELLY GILL 17 Death of a Trade Mark Doctrine? Dilution of Anti-Dilution LOUIS TC HARMS Conclusion 18 Postscript: Was There Ever a Common Law of Intellectual Property? LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG AND GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO David Vaver: Curriculum Vitae