Innovation, Incentive and Reward: Intellectual Property Law and Policy: Hume Papers on Public Policy 5.3

by Brian G. Main and Hector L. MacQueen

The protection of intellectual property - patents, copyrightand trade marks - is generally regarded as a high policy priority in the UK and the European Union. This book asks why this should be so. Is too much intellectual property actually bad for industry, trade and competition? Does intellectual property really provide an incentive for innovation through the creation of wealth? The contributors, who include the Patent Judges of the English High...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074861074X
• ISBN13: 9780748610747
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 96 Pages