Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Author's Note; 1. Innovation and the Industrial Property Protection Systems in the European Union; I. The Genesis of Innovation; II. Patent Protection as an Incentive to Innovation; III. The Systems of Industrial Property Protection within the European Union: The Community Trademark and the Community Industrial Design; IV. The Lack of a Unitary Patent System within the EU; 2. Towards the Establishment of an Integrated European Patent System for the Protection of Inventions.