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19 - Open Yet Secret – Trading of Tangible Goods and Trade Secrets

from A - Intellectual “Property” and its Limits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

Niklas Bruun
Affiliation:
Hanken School of Economics (Finland)
Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Affiliation:
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Marianne Levin
Affiliation:
Stockholm University Department of Law
Ansgar Ohly
Affiliation:
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Faculty of Law
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Intellectual property law aims to promote innovation and creativity. If successful, it would lead to proliferation of innovative technologies and creative expression. As a result, intellectual property law does need to deal periodically with new technologies. New technologies first challenge categories of subject matters of intellectual property. As each subsystem of intellectual property follows a rationale that may uniquely fit its subject matter, having categorically defined subject matter eligibility rules provides certainty and efficiency in regulation. However, as commercial opportunities expand and develop without heed to legal categories, every new technological disruption may raise claims of under- or over-expansive protection.

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Transition and Coherence in Intellectual Property Law
Essays in Honour of Annette Kur
, pp. 242 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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