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The Future of IP: Stimulating Creativity and Inclusivity Liber Amicorum Geertrui Van Overwalle

The Future of IP: Stimulating Creativity and Inclusivity Liber Amicorum Geertrui Van Overwalle

Author: Amandine Leonard; Arina Gorbatyuk; Esther van Zimmeren
Publisher: Larcier Intersentia Publishers
ISBN: 9781839705953
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Belgium ? Disclaimer:
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This celebratory volume honours the remarkable career and intellectual legacy of Professor Dr. Geertrui Van Overwalle, an influential scholar in patent law and plant breeders’ rights. For more than four decades, Van Overwalle has questioned conventions, supported inclusivity, openness, and the public interest. In addition, she has upheld rigorous academic standards and strongly defended academic integrity.

Spanning 25 contributions from leading academics and practitioners across the globe, The Future of IP: Stimulating Creativity and Inclusivity explores how intellectual property (IP) law can respond to today’s pressing challenges, from foundational questions of inclusivity, openness, and access to knowledge to sustainability, biotech innovation, patent law and policy interpretation, and digital transformation.

Structured around six thematic parts and enriched with peculiar inventions drawn from Jacques Carelman’s Catalog of Fantastic Things – each selected and reimagined by the contributors – this Liber Amicorum offers both a scholarly and deeply personal tribute. It invites readers to see IP not as a closed system, but as a framework that can be shaped to promote creativity, openness, inclusivity, equity, and public interest – priorities and values that Van Overwalle has consistently advanced throughout her career.

Introduction. The Future of IP, Liber Amicorum Geertrui Van Overwalle

Arina Gorbatyuk, Amandine Léonard, Esther van Zimmeren

PART I. BACK TO THE FUTURE: INCLUSIVITY AND OPENNESS

Chapter 1. Inclusive (Intellectual) Properties

Séverine Dusollier

Chapter 2. The ‘Inclusive Patent’ (Invented by Geertrui Van Overwalle): Is it the Opposite of an Exclusive Patent?

Reto M. Hilty, Gregor Rauch

Chapter 3. Open Innovation and Intellectual Property: How Open are ‘Open Innovation’ Agreements?

Arina Gorbatyuk

Chapter 4. Use and Disclosure of Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: A Role for the ‘Inclusive Patent’?

Amandine Léonard

Chapter 5. Inclusivity, Intellectual Property, and the IP Academy

Pascale Chapdelaine

PART II. UNFOLDING THE FUTURE: SUSTAINABILITY AND IP

Chapter 6. Write-A-Bike: Intellectual Property and the Sustainable Development Goals

Margaret Chon

Chapter 7. A ‘Right to Repair’ in European Patent Law?

Ansgar Ohly

Chapter 8. The Right to Repair and to Reuse Patented Products in a Circular Economy: ‘It’s Time to Get Exhausted’

Jens Schovsbo, Thomas Riis, Timo Minssen

Chapter 9. Unfolding Scenarios for the Future(s) of Intellectual Property Systems

Esther van Zimmeren

PART III. EDITING THE FUTURE: BIOTECH AND AGRICULTURE

Chapter 10. Accommodating Farmers-Breeders’ Access to Breeding Materials in IP and ABS Regime for Inclusive Innovation

Saurav Ghimire, Christine Frison

Chapter 11. Genome Editing: Biotech at a New Legal Crossroads

Christine Godt

Chapter 12. Protecting Swiss Knives and Plant Varieties

Niels Louwaars

PART IV. UNLOCKING THE FUTURE: SCIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS

Chapter 13. Science in the Garden of Midnight

Peter Drahos

Chapter 14. Reverse Engineering and its Limits: Lessons from the Nostalgia Clock

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss

Chapter 15. Patenting Humans

Dianne Nicol

Chapter 16. Unlocking Our Common Body? Biological Materials, Data and Knowledge Commons for Research & Development

Enrique Santamaría Echeverría, Tine de Moor

Chapter 17. What if Invention Already Happened? Reactionary vs Ingenuity Bike

Lodewijk Van Dycke

PART V. INTERPRETING THE FUTURE: PATENT LANGUAGE, POLICY AND PROCEDURE

Chapter 18. Semiotic Translation in Patent Claims

Dan L. Burk

Chapter 19. (Ir)Rationality in Patent Law

Daria Kim

Chapter 20. Double Patenting: A Sensible Approach or Abuse of Proceedings?

Liesbet Paemen

Chapter 21. Protective Letters: To Be or Not to Be?

Carina Gommers

Chapter 22. Reinventing Patents

Catalina Martinez

PART VI. DIGITISING THE FUTURE: COPYRIGHT, LABOR, AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Chapter 23. Flexibilisation and Digitalisation of Work: Finding a New Income Paradigm for the Financing of Social Security

Paul Schoukens, Eleni De Becker

Chapter 24. Be Your Own String Quartet? A Plea for the Legal Revaluation of Musical Performances

Jozefien Vanherpe

Chapter 25. Regulating IP Exclusion/Inclusion on a Global Scale: The Example of Copyright vs. AI Training

Alexander Peukert

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