{"title":"Intersections Between Intellectual Property and Dispute Resolution","authors":"Althaf Marsoof","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Dispute resolution takes an important place within the intellectual property (IP) framework. This chapter explores the intersection between the two and highlights some of the key challenges and issues that have emerged with respect to IP dispute resolution. By focusing on both civil adjudication and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), the chapter seeks to inspire research in a broad spectrum of topics of practical significance. In the context of civil adjudication, the chapter focuses on natural justice and proportionality, which are fundamental principles of procedural law that have gained a renewed interest in recent times, especially with regard to IP enforcement. In the context of ADR, the chapter focuses on the issue of arbitrability and interim measures, which are not new concerns but continue to pose challenges for IP-related ADR.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"110 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134287972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Primer on Intellectual Property and Popular Culture Research","authors":"Arpan Banerjee","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0026","url":null,"abstract":"A large number of intellectual property (IP) law cases have centred around works of popular culture. Traditionally, IP scholars have focused only on technical legal analysis, neglecting research on the aesthetic and cultural value of such works, or the experiences of creators. However, a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship has changed this trend. This chapter highlights examples of such interdisciplinary scholarship, focusing on scholarship incorporating approaches from the humanities and empirical social sciences. The chapter discusses the methodologies and perspectives used in such works, and how they can complement traditional legal analysis.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133119085","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminist Methodologies and Intellectual Property","authors":"Ann Bartow","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0048","url":null,"abstract":"Though intellectual property (IP) law is facially gender-neutral, the numbers do not add up, to put it lightly. This chapter discusses the ways that laws mediate the ways that creativity, innovation, and invention are commoditized, through a feminist lens. It maps evidence of sexism and discrimination against women in the context of patents, copyrights, and trademarks, and suggests mechanisms to measure and observe the material, legal and social constraints that disproportionately affect women authors and would-be authors. It suggests methods that can be deployed to evaluate gendered differences in the production and protection of IP, and invites readers to participate in this project.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131702455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual Property and Openness: A Research Perspective and Agenda","authors":"Caroline B. Ncube","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0045","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the various methodologies used and arguments advanced by scholarship which employs an openness paradigm to examine intellectual property (IP), specifically in copyright and patent law. It presents the key attributes of openness, as developed in scholarly literature and research practices. It highlights the underpinning justifications for openness which include social justice imperatives, sustainable development, human development, and human rights, with emphasis on the development of human rights framing. It reprises topical aspects that remain on the normative agenda to inform ongoing and future scholarship founded on international and national perspectives or developmental agendas. Drawing from examples of recent research, it explores how research questions related to copyright and patents have been cast from the standpoint of openness and closes by envisaging some ways in which such scholarship may be advanced methodologically and substantively.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126334918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual Property and Cultural Heritage: Towards Interdisciplinarity","authors":"F. MacMillan","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0022","url":null,"abstract":"The laws governing intellectual property (IP) and cultural heritage, respectively, belong to different parts of the legal order. Intellectual property law, while usually depending on a discourse that either privileges certain types of cultural or innovative outputs or celebrates their importance for our collective life, grants private property rights over certain types of artefacts. Cultural heritage law, on the other hand, is about state, public, and/or community rights and interests over certain types of artefacts. As the positive legal order understands the world, the two sets of law have nothing, or almost nothing, to do with each other. However, the link between the two exists as a consequence of the overlapping application of these two regimes to certain artefacts, such as the heritage of Indigenous Peoples. In this limited context, community struggles allied with innovative legal scholarship and some welcome institutional and judicial activism have opened up a small space in the positivist framework that recognizes a relationship between intellectual property law and the protection of heritage. The use of interdisciplinary perspectives has been critical in this process, as they have also been in the subsequent development of this debate to encompass questions around the relationship between intellectual property rights and cultural heritage more generally. This short chapter examines questions of methodology opened up by this state of affairs. It reflects on a selection of the myriad subquestions and implications opened up by, respectively, the question of legal ordering and that of interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129083984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intellectual Property Rights and Well-Being: A Methodological Approach","authors":"Tim E. Taylor, E. Derclaye","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0042","url":null,"abstract":"The dominant justification of intellectual property rights (IPR) holds that it is desirable in utilitarian terms for inventions and creations to be produced. In this context, utility is usually equated with economic wealth. However, this interpretation of utility is suspect for a number of reasons, as is widely recognized in other fields. The well-being approach to IPR proposes that utility should be construed directly in terms of human well-being, rather than using economic proxies. There are several rival theories of well-being. The authors propose a theory-neutral approach which builds on areas of common ground between the theories on the ‘markers’ of well-being: things which are either constitutive, productive, or indicative of well-being. This approach provides a principled rationale for a broadly based approach to the measurement of well-being, encompassing a range of different subjective and objective measures. The chapter identifies nine markers that seem consistent with the mainstream theories of well-being and discusses their specific implications for IPR. The well-being approach argues for a more cautious and nuanced evaluation of IPR than currently prevails. Encouraging invention or creation in a particular field may increase general well-being in some way. But if a creation or invention is likely to decrease well-being, that might be a point against it. Although the well-being approach acknowledges that utilitarian considerations are relevant, it makes no claim that these are the only relevant considerations. The approach has potential synergies with other ‘lenses’, including social justice and morality.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132660006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Interface Between Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law","authors":"Maria Lillà Montagnani","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Over the years, intellectual property (IP) law has developed an increasingly profound link with both technological developments and the rules governing them. IP law is constantly challenged by new waves of technologies as often called to provide protection for them. At the same time, new technologies offer new ways to exploit protected works. Indeed, the more technology has become an autonomous subject matter governed by specific provisions, the more IP law has engaged in a constant dialogue with these provisions. This interaction between IP law and technology has significantly affected the contours of the field. In this chapter, I address the relationship between IP and the rules adopted to govern the specific technologies that are designed to handle information—known as ‘information technologies (IT)’. This set of provisions goes under the name of ‘IT law’. I examine the interface between IP and IT law from the standpoint of the IP scholars who have an interest in technology. In particular, I investigate how the IP/IT interface is, or could be regulated and how the rules regarding IP and IT law interact with each other. There is a circular relationship between law and technology as the former, while governing the latter, is also shaped by it and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132696557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divergent Methodological Approaches to Intellectual Property in Mixed Jurisdiction Countries","authors":"I. Azmi","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0053","url":null,"abstract":"For more than three decades, researchers examining intellectual property (IP) from Shari’ah perspectives adopted a variety of methodologies to determine the legitimacy of intellectual property rights, its subject matter, beneficiaries, and the scope of the exclusive rights. At times, more than one methodology is adopted to give a broader perspective of the enquiry. The adoption of a multiplicity of tools is not surprising as traditional fiqh scholars often relied on a variety of tools to extract reasoning from the primary sources of the Shari’ah, i.e. Quran and Sunnah. These research methodologies range from the traditional fiqhi approach developed since early days of Muslim scholarship. In recent times, Muslim scholars have moved to more contemporary approaches, for example maqasid (higher objectives of the Shari’ah) or developmental approach to examining the perimeters of intellectual property right, particularly when strong private rights may impinge public interest. This chapter examines the divergent methodological approaches adopted by these researchers and questions whether these approaches can be adopted to examine beyond the legitimacy in these scope of intellectual property rights.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"563 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134430812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Race Theory as Intellectual Property Methodology","authors":"A. Vats, Deidré A. Keller","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0049","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers how the guiding principles of Critical Race Theory (CRT) can inform the study of race in the context of intellectual property (IP) law. The first part of the chapter traces the origins and tenets of CRT. It then explores the interdisciplinary movement’s core methods, which are aimed at centring race and racism as objects of study. The second part of the chapter turns to the origins, tenets, and methods of Critical Race Intellectual Property, which we define as an interdisciplinary movement of scholars connected by their focus on the racial and colonial non-neutrality of intellectual property law using principles informed by CRT. The chapter concludes with an examination of two books about India and intellectual property law through which researchers can understand how existing scholarship can more deeply engage with questions of race.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128750344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interpreting Historical-Philosophical Sources of Intellectual Property","authors":"M. Borghi","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826743.003.0019","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter considers the approach to traditional philosophical sources of intellectual property (IP). It argues that philosophical questioning is characterized by specific and unique features that distinguish it from all other forms of knowledge, including scientific knowledge. It then shows how philosophical concepts—i.e. concepts coined in the course of philosophical questioning—translate in other domains of knowledge, such as jurisprudence, where they eventually decay into empty rhetorical tools devoid of questioning force. The current ‘intellectual property debate’ illustrates this point. In this connection, the chapter questions how intellectual property concepts can be reconstructed in their original philosophical dimension. By way of example, the interpretation of three great philosophers—Kant, Fichte, and Hegel—is considered, by reference to their seminal writings on intellectual property issues.","PeriodicalId":440385,"journal":{"name":"Handbook of Intellectual Property Research","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131661519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}