1. Substantive Patent and Utility Model Law 3
Prior Art from the Internet-A Potential Further Reason for Branching off a Utility Model from a Pending Patent Application&Alexander Klicznik 3
Registration without Examination：The Utility Model-A Useful Model？&Karsten Koniger 17
Nonobviousness in German Patent Nullity Proceedings&Hans-Georg Landfermann 31
Tax Strategy Patents-a Tax Lawyer’s View&Wolfgang Schon 49
Protection of Scientific Creations under Patent and Copyright Law&Gerhard Schricker 59
Personal Rights of Inventors in the Polish Legal System&Janusz Szwaja 67
The Priority Right in Patent Law-Use and Misuse？&Eike Ullmann 75
2. Limitations to Intellectual Property Protection 87
The Experimental Use of the Patented Invention：A Free Use or an Infringing Use？&Vincenzo Di Cataldo 87
Interpreting Exceptions in Intellectual Property Law&Henrik Holzapfel and Georg Werner 99
A Study on Patent Compulsory License System in China-With Particular Reference to the Drafted 3rd Amendment to the Patent Law of the P.R. of China&Xiaohai Liu 115
Compulsory Licensing in Chinese Patent Law&Xiaoguang Shan 127
3. Intellectual Property and Competition (Antitrust) Law 137
Deceptive Conduct in the Patent World-A Case for US Antitrust and EU Competition Law？&Josef Drexl 137
Intellectual Property and Article 82 EC&Michael Kort 157
Patents and Standards：The Antitrust Objection as a Defense in Patent Infringement Proceedings&Karolina Scholer 177
4. Biotechnology，Pharmaceuticals，and Patent Law 197
The Inadequacies of the Section 271 (e)(1) Jurisprudence of the United States Supreme Court&Martin J.Adelman 197
Legal and Moral Reflections on Modern Biotechnology in Use ＆ Misuse&Shoshana Berman 209
Biotechnological Patenting and Innovation&Michael Blakeney 229
Circumventing the Debate over State Policy and Property Rights：Section 3(d) of the Indian Patents Act Law&Tanuja V.Garde 243
Medical Use Claims：EPC 2000 and its Impact on Prosecution and Enforcement&Hans-Rainer Jaenichen，Jurgen Meier，Niels Holder 255
Purpose and Limits of the Exclusion from Patentability of Medical Methods，Especially Diagnostic Methods&Rudolf Kraber 275
Special Legislation for Genetic Inventions-A Violation of Article 27(1) TRIPS？&Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont 289
5. Employee Invention Law 307
Effects of the German Law on Employees’Inventions when Posting Employees Within the European Union&Kurt Bartenbach，Franz-Eugen Volz，Markus J.Goetzmann 307
The Finnish 2006 Act on University Inventions-The Road Map to Identifying，Protecting and Utilizing Patentable Research Results&Rainer Oesch 329
University Employee Inventions in Scandinavian and Finnish Law&Are Stenvik 339
6. Procedure，Enforcement，and Liability 355
Patent Trolls-Menace or Myth？&Christoph Ann 355
Liability 2.0 - Does the Internet environment require new standards for secondary liability？An overview of the current legal situation in Germany&Alexander Bayer 356
Can China be Forced to Enforce IP Rights？&Peter Ganea 379
Trade Secrets and Patent Litigation 391
Reflections on the German Patent Litigation System&Peter Mes 401
Enforcement of Unfair Competition Law by Notice of Violation，Rights of Consumers and Public Authorities-Comparative Evaluation of the German Status Quo&Thomas M.J.Mollers 413
Two Major and Long-Lasting Patent Law Issues in Japan&Tetsuya Obuchi 431
Intellectual Property Rights and Arbitration-Miscellaneous&Kresimir Sajko 445
Harmonizing Patent Infringement Damages：A Lesson from Japanese Experiences&Toshiko Takenaka 463
The Inescapable Trap-A Case for Reconsideration？&Rudolf Teschemacher and Jochen Pagenberg 481
Patents without Injunctions？Trolls，Hold-ups，Ambushes，and Other Patent Warfare&Wolfgang yon Meibom and Ralph Nack 495
7. Protecting Technology against Unfair Competition&(No) Freedom to Copy？ 521
Protection of Technical Features under Unfair Competition Law&Annette Kur 521
Reverse Engineering：Unfair Competition or Catalyst for Innovation？&Ansgar Ohly 535
8. Muitijurisdictional Aspects of IP 555
Negotiations on the Accession to the EU and the Harmonization of Intellectual Property with the acquis communautaire in Light of Globalization&Igor Gliha 555
Cross-border Injunctions in Patent Litigations Following the ECJ Decision in GAT v.LuK-Life after Death？&Klaus Grabinski 565
Contractual Liability of the Seller Due to Third Parties’Patents and Other IP Rights under German Law and the UN Convention on Sales Contracts&Paul Katzenberger 575
The Principle of National Treatment in the International Conventions Protecting Intellectual Property&Ulrich Loewenheim 593
The Extraterritorial Reach of Patent Law&Rainer Moufang 601
Synergies Created by International Cooperation in the Patent Area？&Jiirgen Schade 619
Patents in Europe and their Court-Is there Light at the End of the Tunnel？&Michael Schneider 633
Patents and Developing Countries&Peter Dirk Siemsen and Ivan Bacellar Ahlert 647
Territorial Intellectual Property Rights in a Global Economy-Transit and Other ‘Free Zones’&Alexander von Muhlendahl and Dieter Stauder 653
9. Recent Developments in National IP and Competition Legislation 677
The Spanish Patent System：Future Outlook&Alberto Bercovitz 677
Incorporation of Patent Law into Part Four of the Russian Civil Code-A Structural Analysis&Adolf Dietz 687
The Quiet Revolution in American Copyright Law&Paul Goldstein 703
Some Remarks On the Third Revision Draft of the Chinese Patent Law&Shoukang Guo 713
Some Critical Remarks Concerning the Act on the Protection of Competition of the Republic of Serbia&Radovan D.Vukadinovic 729
10. Intellectual Property and Public Policies 751
Secrecy and the Evolution of an Early Patent System&William Cornish 751
Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in a World of Intellectual Property Rights&Reto M.Hilty 763
Woolly Lines in Intellectual Property Law&The Rt. Hon. Sir Robin Jacob 781
Economic Perils of U.S. Patent Reform：Flexibility’s Achilles Heel&F.Scott Kieff 793
The Need for Climate Improvement in Intellectual Property Law&Marianne Levin 811
The Patent System-Not More than an Instrument of Public Policy&Slobodan M.Markovic 829
Patents and the Economic Incentive to Invent&Bojan Pretnar 841
The Patent Reform Act and Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions-A Correction of the Intellectual Property Policies？&Stanistaw Sottysinski 853
The Impact of the Amendments of the Chinese Patent System on the Technological and Economic Progress in China&Xiang Yu 873
11. Bibliography of Publications by Joseph Straus 887
Publications by Professor Dr. Ores. h.c. Joseph Straus 887