Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the economics of patent law and policy / F. Scott Kieff -- Patents and policies for innovations and entrepreneurship / Ove Granstrand -- History of the patent system / John N. Adams -- A spanner in the works : or the spanner that works? Patents and the intellectual property system / Jeremy Phillips -- International treaties and patent law harmonization : today and beyond / Tomoko Miyamoto -- Examination procedure at the European Patent Office / Peter Watchorn -- Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office / Andrea Veronese -- Patent Office oppositions and patent invalidation in court : complements or substitutes? / Jay P. Kesan -- Trilateral cooperation : mutual exploitation of search and examination results among patent offices with a view to establishing a system of rationalized work-sharing / Shinjiro Ono -- 'Lost in translation' : the legal impact of patent translation errors on claim scope / Donald S. Chisum and Stacey J. Farmer -- Patenting software-related inventions in Europe / Stefan Schohe, Christian Appelt and Heinz Goddar -- Utility and industrial applicability / Christopher Wadlow -- The novelty and priority provision under the United States first-to-file principle : a comparative law perspective / Toshiko Takenaka -- Back to the Graham factors : nonobviousness after KSR v. Teleflex / Elizabeth A. Richardson -- Extent of patent protection in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and Japan : examination through the concept of 'person having ordinary skill in the art of the invention' / Toshiko Takenaka -- Direct and indirect patent infringement / Alison Firth -- The scope of patent protection for spare parts and its extension through other tools of intellectual property / Horst-Peter Götting and Sven Hetmank -- The exhaustion of patent owners' rights in the European Community / Thomas Hays -- Enabling research or unfair competition? De jure and de facto research use exceptions in major technology countries / Sean O'Connor -- Compulsory licensing under TRIPS and the Supreme Court of the United States' decision in eBay v. MercExchange / Christopher A. Cotropia -- Adequate compensation for patent infringement damages : a comparative study of damage measurements in Japan and the United States / Toshiko Takenaka -- Resolving patent disputes in a global economy / Rochelle C. Dreyfuss -- Challenges to the sui generis regime of pharmaceutical patents / John R. Thomas -- Current controversies concerning patent rights and public health in a world of international norms / Cynthia M. Ho -- Biotechnology patent pools and standards setting / Jorge A. Goldstein -- Patenting industry standards / Vincent F. Chiappetta.