E-grāmata: Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World

1. Utility models and other forms of sub-patent protection Jorge L.
Contreras, Martin Husovec and Matthew Rimmer;
2. Overview of Worldwide
utility model filings, litigation and activity Daniel Cahoy, Jorge L.
Contreras and Lynda Oswald;
3. The rise and fall of the United Kingdom's
forgotten utility model: the utility designs act 1843 Lionel Bently and
Brad Sherman;
4. Utility models in Danish law Tine Sommer, Timo Minssen and
Jens Schovsbo;
5. Utility models in French law Thibault Gisclard;
6. Utility
models in Germany and Switzerland Peter Georg Picht and Marian Weber;
7.
Utility models in Italy Alessandro Cogo and Marco Ricolfi;
8. Utility model
protection in Poland: in search of a regulatory framework capable of
incentivizing innovation Rafa Sikorski;
9. Key performance indicators for
utility model systems: an application to Finland Jussi T. S. Heikkilä;
10.
Reinventing the wheel: the rise and fall of the Australian innovation patent
Matthew Rimmer;
11. China's utility model patent legal system: past, present,
and future Yu Yang;
12. Utility models in Japan Masabumi Suzuki;
13. Utility
models in Korea Sang Jo Jong;
14. Utility models in Brazil Luca Schirru and
Maikon Oliveira;
15. Utility models in Kenya Isaac Rutenberg;
16. The debate
over second tier patent protection in the United States Jorge L. Contreras
and Mark D. Janis;
17. The unitary patent system and utility models Lisa van
Dongen, Timo Minssen and Tine Sommer;
18. Treatment of utility models as
standards-essential patents Jorge L. Contreras and Magnus Buggenhagen;
19.
Navigating incomplete harmonization: businesses and the utility model
environment Daniel R. Cahoy and Lynda J. Oswald;
20. Utility models and the
European Union: a fresh look at the need for harmonisation Martin Stierle;
21. Heterogeneities in utility model accessibility: impacts over time and
around the world Dan Prud'homme;
22. Utility models and innovation in
low-income economies Uma Suthersanen; Bibliography.

Jorge L. Contreras, the James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law, is an internationally recognized expert on intellectual property law and practice. He is the author or editor of twelve prior books and more than 150 scholarly book chapters and articles. Before entering academia, he was a partner at a major international law firm where he practiced transactional intellectual property law in Boston, Washington DC and London.