Introduction 3
1 Emerging Divergences in the Common Law of Intellectual Property: An Overview&LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG and GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO 3
Historical Perspectives 21
2 Intellectual Property and the Common Law in Scotland c1700-c1850&HECTOR L MACQUEEN 21
3 On Clarifying the Role of Originality and Fair Use in Nineteenth Century UK Jurisprudence: Appreciating 'the humble grey which emerges as the result of long controversy&KATHY BOWREY 45
Court Practices 73
4 The Relationship between UK Common Law and the European Systems in the Context of Res Judicata&HENRY CARR 73
5 The Conduct of a Patent Trial from the Perspective of Practice in the US, UK and Canada&MARSHALL ROTHSTEIN JAMES F HOLDERMAN CHRISTOPHER FLOYD and KATHRYN PICKARD 99
Emergent Diversity in the Common Law Relating to Intellectual Property: How Domestic Court Practice Informs Local Evolution of Law&ROGER T HUGHES 125
Patents 143
7 A Common Law Prescription for a Medical Malaise&TINA PIPER 143
8 Claiming a Life: are Organisms Inberently Unpatentable?&GRAHAM DUTFIELD 161
9 Divergent Approaches in Defining the Appropriate Level of Inventiveness in Patent Law&ANN MONOTTI 177
10 Sufficiency of Disclosure in the Common Law: Complexity, Divergence and Confusion&SIVARAMJANI THAMBISETTY 199
Copyright 221
11 Common Law Approaches to the Requirement of Originality&SAM RICKETSON 221
12 Finding Originality in Recreative Copyright works&BURTON ONG 255
13 The Emancipation of Fair Use in Israel&LIOR ZEMER 281
Trade Marks and Unfair Competition 307
14 Unfair Competition by Misappropriation: the Reception of International News in the Common Law World&CHRISTOPHER WADLOW 307
15 The Common Law and Trade Marks in an Age of Statutes&GRAEME B DINWOODIE 331
16 Protecting Extraterritorial Goodwill: Exploring the Impetus Behind a Common Law&A KELLY GILL 353
17 Death of a Trade Mark Doctrine? Dilution of Anti-Dilution&LOUIS TC HARMS 379
Conclusion 401
18 Postscript: Was There Ever a Common Law of Intellectual Property?&LIONEL BENTLY CATHERINE W NG and GIUSEPPINA D'AGOSTINO 401
David Vaver: Curriculum Vitae 423
Index 433