Intellectual Property and the Common Law - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107515343 ISBN 13: 9781107515345

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In this volume, leading scholars of intellectual property and information policy examine what the common law - understood as a method of reasoning, an approach to rule making, and a body of substantive law - can contribute to discussions about the scope, structure, and function of intellectual property. The book presents an array of methodologies, substantive areas, and normative positions, tying these concepts together by looking to the common law for guidance. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and principles that are embedded within the working of common law, the volume shows that the answers to many of modern intellectual property law's most puzzling questions may be found in the wisdom, versatility, and adaptability of the common law. The book argues that despite the degree of interdisciplinary specialization that the field today sees, intellectual property is fundamentally a creation of the law; therefore, the basic building blocks of the law can shed important light on what intellectual property can and should (and was perhaps meant to) be.

About this title

Book Description:

Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and principles that are embedded within the working of common law, the volume shows that the answers to many of modern intellectual property law's most puzzling questions may be found in the wisdom, versatility, and adaptability of the common law.

About the Author:

Shyamkrishna Balganesh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His scholarship focuses on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts and structures from different areas of private law. He obtained his JD from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles and Essays Editor at the Yale Law Journal and a Student Fellow at the Information Society Project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1107515343
• ISBN 13: 9781107515345
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576
• Editor: Balganesh Shyamkrishna