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Patents, Profits and Power

How Intellectual Property Rules the Global Economy

Patents, Profits and Power
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The wealth of today’s businesses is found in the collective knowledge and innovation of their employees and leaders. In the global economy, innovation has become more valuable than gold. Consequently, intellectual property (IP) protection has become the focus of considerable legal and regulatory attention, at both an international and national level.

Patents, Profits and Power explores the rapid development of IP in the global economy and reveals theft, piracy and infringements on IP at every level, from the state to the individual. Curtis Cook examines the less desirable players on the world stage, why they choose to defy the law, how the rest of the world is responding and how you can survive and thrive in this environment. He also considers the impact of IP on our daily lives and how it has become a pervasive, yet virtually imperceptible force in many societies.

In this book, you will discover that:

  • intellectual property rights have rapidly expanded in the last 100 years;
  • intellectual assets have become the new wealth;
  • global IP enforcers are losing the battle to protect intellectual property;
  • IP is the global currency;
  • rogue nations and false creations undermine the intellectual property regime;
  • IP is inextricably linked to the future of thought;
  • Internet rules: intellectual property at cyberspeed is a different game;
  • developing intellectual property in developing nations is failing.

    Fully international in its scope and subject matter, Patents, Profits and Power highlights the hazards facing intellectual property protection in the information age. Packed with international case studies and examples, this unique title will prove an invaluable source for anyone who creates for profit... or power.

  • Kogan Page; February 2003
    209 pages; ISBN 9781597343534
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