Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World

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Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World

By Jorge L. Contreras
Cambridge University Press February 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009478090
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
February 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This ground-breaking work delves into the world of sub-patent intellectual property rights, exploring utility model and similar protection offered by over 100 countries worldwide. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars from around the globe, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis of sub-patent protection systems, comparing and contrasting statutory frameworks, registration requirements, corporate strategies and litigation tactics. The book also highlights current policy debates surrounding these systems, including their potential to promote local innovation and economic development, proposals for cross-border harmonization, and their interaction with increasingly integrated litigation systems. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, attorneys, historians, economists, and anyone dealing with complex international intellectual property matters.

Table of Contents

1. Utility models and other forms of sub-patent protection
Jorge L. Contreras, Martin Husovec and Matthew Rimmer
2. Overview of Worldwide utility model filings, litigation and activity
Daniel Cahoy, Jorge L. Contreras and Lynda Oswald
3. The rise and fall of the United Kingdom's forgotten utility model: the utility designs act 1843
Lionel Bently and Brad Sherman
4. Utility models in Danish law
Tine Sommer, Timo Minssen and Jens Schovsbo
5. Utility models in French law
Thibault Gisclard
6. Utility models in Germany and Switzerland
Peter Georg Picht and Marian Weber
7. Utility models in Italy
Alessandro Cogo and Marco Ricolfi
8. Utility model protection in Poland: in search of a regulatory framework capable of incentivizing innovation
Rafał Sikorski
9. Key performance indicators for utility model systems: an application to Finland
Jussi T. S. Heikkilä
10. Reinventing the wheel: the rise and fall of the Australian innovation patent
Matthew Rimmer
11. China's utility model patent legal system: past, present, and future
Yu Yang
12. Utility models in Japan
Masabumi Suzuki
13. Utility models in Korea
Sang Jo Jong
14. Utility models in Brazil
Luca Schirru and Maikon Oliveira
15. Utility models in Kenya
Isaac Rutenberg
16. The debate over second tier patent protection in the United States
Jorge L. Contreras and Mark D. Janis
17. The unitary patent system and utility models
Lisa van Dongen, Timo Minssen and Tine Sommer
18. Treatment of utility models as standards-essential patents
Jorge L. Contreras and Magnus Buggenhagen
19. Navigating incomplete harmonization: businesses and the utility model environment
Daniel R. Cahoy and Lynda J. Oswald
20. Utility models and the European Union: a fresh look at the need for harmonisation
Martin Stierle
21. Heterogeneities in utility model accessibility: impacts over time and around the world
Dan Prud'homme
22. Utility models and innovation in low-income economies
Uma Suthersanen

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