Intellectual Property Rights in a Networked World:: Theory by Richard A. Spinello, Herman T. Tavani

By Richard A. Spinello, Herman T. Tavani

Highbrow estate Rights in a Networked international is a set of modern essays delivering clean views at the scope and way forward for highbrow estate rights. The tripartite department of the e-book is designed to make this inter-disciplinary subject extra obtainable and intelligible to readers of numerous backgrounds. half I involves a unmarried essay that gives a vast review of the most issues in highbrow estate scholarship, reminiscent of normative highbrow estate conception and the felony infrastructure for estate safeguard. the second one element of the ebook provides a number of essays which are meant to deepen the reader's knowing of highbrow estate concept and exhibit the way it may help us to grapple with the right kind allocation of estate rights in our on-line world. And the ultimate part additional develops the subjects partially II yet in larger element and with a more effective orientation. whereas highbrow estate rights create dynamic incentive results, in addition they entail social expenses, and they're occasionally in stress with the advance of a strong public area.

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S. patent statute is based on the Patent Act of 1952, as amended in 1995. ” The Patent Act requires three conditions to be satisfied for a patent to be granted. First, an invention must have a certain usefulness or utility in order to be awarded a patent. Inventing a machine that does nothing useful would not merit the inventor of such a machine a patent. Second, the invention must be novel or new in order to qualify for a patent. One cannot simply modify an existing invention and expect to be given a patent for it.

Patent system is not perfect and there are valid concerns about the expanding scope of patent protection. However, the case for alternatives to the current system that confer a property right of limited duration must adequately deal with critical post-invention issues such as commercialization. Trademarks Trademarks are a form of intellectual property protection that differs in key respects from both patents and copyrights. A trademark is a word, name phrase, or symbol that identifies a product or service.

For laborers in a capitalist economy, however, while the object produced embodies their personality and nature, this object is sold by the producer, and hence is not under the laborer’s control. These objects, therefore, are reduced to the status of mere commodities. While Marx did not explicitly consider intellectual property, his theory has relevance for it. For those sympathetic to Marx, there is abundant evidence that in capitalist economies, creative labor is another instance of exploited labor.

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