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Title Business innovation and the law : perspectives from intellectual property, labour, competition and corporate law / edited by Marilyn Pittard, Ann L. Monotti and John Duns, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia
Published Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2013
Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA Edward Elgar, [2013]
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Description xviii, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 15.Legal protection of business research and development: can it harm competition? / Ray Finkelstein -- 16.Business innovation and competition law: an Australian perspective / John Duns -- 17.Perspectives from competition law practice / Dorothy Livingston -- 18.EU competition law, and research and development agreements / Rosa Greaves -- pt. V DEVICES TO PROTECT BUSINESS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FROM ̀€INTERNAL ATTACK' -- 19.Devices at law to protect employers: a conspectus of approaches / Marilyn Pittard -- 20.Devices to restrain competition and protect discoveries and enforcement: workplace policies and confidentiality agreements / John Hull -- 21.Devices to restrain competition and protect discoveries and enforcement: confidentiality in the courts and Europe / Alison Firth -- 22.Devices to restrain competition and protect confidential information in employment-practical and legal aspects: an Australian perspective / Chris Molnar --
Contents note continued: 23.The law and policy of non-compete clauses in the United States and their implications / Carol M. Hayes -- pt. VI PUBLIC SECTOR BUSINESS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- 24.Innovation in public sector research / Ann L. Monotti -- 25.Technology transfer law, policies and practices at the U.S. National Institutes of Health / Claire T. Driscoll -- 26.Licensing university intellectual property: ownership and management of intellectual property in the United Kingdom / Noel Byrne -- pt. VII CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ISSUES AND INNOVATION -- 27.Innovation through the lens of corporate governance / John Duns -- 28.Institutions and innovation: is corporate governance the missing link? / Andrea Mina
Contents note continued: pt. III THE EMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR LAW PERSPECTIVE ON PROTECTING BUSINESS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- 8.Innovation through the lens of labour and employment law / Marilyn Pittard -- 9.Resolving invention ownership disputes: limitations of the contract of employment / Jeremias Prassl -- 10.The innovative worker: genius, accidental inventor or thief? / Marilyn Pittard -- 11.Employees' inventions and the employment contract: a European Union perspective / Riccardo Del Punta -- 12.US employment law perspectives on the issue of who owns an employee's invention / Richard Bales -- 13.Taking the long view on competition and the mobile employee: lessons from the United States history of efforts to regulate employee innovation and the mobility of workplace knowledge / Catherine L. Fisk -- pt. IV THE COMPETITION LAW PERSPECTIVE ON PROTECTING BUSINESS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT -- 14.Innovation through the lens of competition law / John Duns --
Machine generated contents note: pt. I BUSINESS INNOVATION: INTRODUCING THE PERSPECTIVES -- 1.Perspectives and themes / Marilyn Pittard -- 2.Failed collaboration: the misappropriation of business opportunities, ideas and advantages by prospective co-venturers, financiers and brokers / Paul Finn -- pt. II INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES IN BUSINESS: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PERSPECTIVES -- 3.Innovation through the lens of intellectual property law: rights in employee inventions / Ann L. Monotti -- 4.Double or nothing: technology transfer under the Bayh-Dole Act / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss -- 5.Establishing clear rights in academic employee inventions: lessons learnt from University of Western Australia v Gray / Ann L. Monotti -- 6.Professional and academic employee inventions: looking beyond the UK paradigm / Justine Pila -- 7.EU perspectives on employees' inventions / Marie-Christine Janssens --
Summary Evaluating the impact of each of these areas using discipline-specific and industry perspectives, the book also explores questions about whether a more harmonized approach is necesary to provide appropriate protection. Approaches of the common law and civil law jurisdictiosn, particularly the European Union, inform and provide guidance to the analysis of emerging issues in this field
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Commercial law.
Intellectual property.
Labor laws and legislation.
Research, Industrial -- Law and legislation.
Technological innovations -- Law and legislation.
Author Duns, John, editor of compilation
Monotti, Ann Louise, editor of compilation
Pittard, Marilyn J., editor of compilation
ISBN 1781001618 (hbk.)
9781781001615 (hbk.)
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