Fairness in intellectual property law : searching for a uniform concept /

"This book contends that the concept of fairness should be embraced and developed as a middle ground between strictly utilitarian and fundamental rights-based approaches to intellectual property (IP) law. Annette Kur, Nari Lee and Anna Tischner provide elegant arguments as to why this should be...

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Main Authors: Kur, Annette (Author), Lee, Nari (Author), Tischner, Anna (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2024.
Series:Elgar monographs in intellectual property law.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Fairness in Intellectual Property Law : an introduction
  • Part I: Secondary EU law as a source for conceptualizing fairness
  • Fairness and related concepts in EU unfair competition law
  • Honest commercial practices and similar concepts in trade mark law
  • The concept of honest practices in EU trade secrets and data law
  • Part II: Fairness in light of overarching principles in primary EU law
  • Undistorted competition and fundamental freedoms
  • Fairness, intellectual property and fundamental rights
  • Part III: Defining and measuring fairness
  • Economics, distributive justice and moral perspectives
  • The role of empirical evidence
  • Part IV: Normative framework and fairness of procedure
  • Normative structure for fairness
  • Access to justice and fairness of sanctions
  • Part V: The fairness approach in operation
  • Practicing fairness erga omnes : design law as an example
  • Fairness inter partes
  • Conclusions: Operationalizing fairness.