The global governance of knowledge : patent offices and their clients / Peter Drahos.
2010
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The global governance of knowledge : patent offices and their clients / Peter Drahos.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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1 online resource (xv, 351 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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Patent offices and the global governance of knowledge
Labyrinths and catacombs : patent office procedure
The rise of patent offices
The sun and its planets : the European Patent Office and National Offices
The USPTO and JPO
The age of trilaterals and the spirit of co-operation
The jewel in the crown : India's Patent Office
The dragon and the tiger : China and South Korea
Joining the patent office conga line : Brazil
Islands and regions in the patent stream
Reclaiming the patent social contract
Patent administration sovereignty : nodal solutions for small countries, developing countries.
Labyrinths and catacombs : patent office procedure
The rise of patent offices
The sun and its planets : the European Patent Office and National Offices
The USPTO and JPO
The age of trilaterals and the spirit of co-operation
The jewel in the crown : India's Patent Office
The dragon and the tiger : China and South Korea
Joining the patent office conga line : Brazil
Islands and regions in the patent stream
Reclaiming the patent social contract
Patent administration sovereignty : nodal solutions for small countries, developing countries.
Summary
Patent offices around the world have granted millions of patents to multinational companies. Patent offices are rarely studied and yet they are crucial agents in the global knowledge economy. Based on a study of forty-five rich and poor countries that takes in the world's largest and smallest offices, Peter Drahos argues that patent offices have become part of a globally integrated private governance network, which serves the interests of multinational companies, and that the Trilateral Offices of Europe, the USA and Japan make developing country patent offices part of the network through the strategic fostering of technocratic trust. By analysing the obligations of patent offices under the patent social contract and drawing on a theory of nodal governance, the author proposes innovative approaches to patent office administration that would allow developed and developing countries to recapture the public spirit of the patent social contract.
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Cambridge Core.
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English
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9780511676581 ebook
9780521195669 (hardback)
9780521144360 (paperback)
9780521195669 (hardback)
9780521144360 (paperback)
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