Global Patents: Limits of Transnational Enforcement

By Marketa Trimble

In today's globalized economy, many inventors, investors and businesses want their inventions to be protected in many, if not most, countries. However, there currently exists no single patent that will protect an invention globally, and despite the attempts in international treaties to simplify patenting, the process remains complicated, lengthy, and expensive. Furthermore, the necessity of enforcing patents in multiple countries exists without any possibility of concentrating in one location any parallel proceedings that concern the same invention and the same parties, thus making the maintenance of parallel patents infeasible.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199840687
• ISBN13: 9780199840687
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"