Business innovation and the law : perspectives from intellectual property, labour, competition and corporate law - Pittard, Marilyn J.; Monotti, Ann Louise; Duns, John (Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013)
Perspectives and themes / John Duns, Ann L. Monotti and Marilyn Pittard -- Failed collaboration: the misappropriation of business opportunities, ideas and advantages by prospective co-venturers, financiers and brokers / Paul Finn -- Innovation through the lens of intellectual property law: rights in employee inventions / Ann L. Monotti -- Double or nothing: technology transfer under the Bayh-Dole Act / Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss -- Establishing clear rights in academic employee inventions: lessons learnt from University of Western Australia v Gray / Ann L. Monotti -- Professional and academic employee inventions: looking beyond the UK paradigm / Justine Pila -- EU perspectives on employees' inventions / Marie-Christine Janssens -- Innovation through the lens of labour and employment law / Marilyn Pittard -- Resolving invention ownership disputes: limitations of the contract of employment / Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl -- The innovative worker: genius, accidental inventor or thief? / Marilyn Pittard -- Employees' inventions and the employment contract: a European Union perspective / Riccardo Del Punta -- US employment law perspectives on the issue of who owns an employee's invention / Richard Bales -- Taking the long view on competition and the mobile employee: lessons from the United States history of efforts to regulate employee innovation and the mobility of workplace knowledge / Catherine L. Fisk -- Innovation through the lens of competition law / John Duns -- Legal protection of business research and development: can it harm competition? / Ray Finkelstein -- Business innovation and competition law: an Australian perspective / John Duns -- Perspectives from competition law / Dorothy Livingston -- EU competition law, and research and development agreements / Rosa Greaves -- Devices at law to protect employers: a conspectus of approaches / Marilyn Pittard -- Devices to restrain competition and protect discoveries and enforcement: workplace policies and confidentiality / John Hull -- Devices to restrain competition and protect discoveries and enforcement: confidentiality in the courts and Europe / Alison Firth -- Devices to restrain competition and protect confidential information in employment: practical and legal aspects: an Australian perspective / Chris Molnar -- The law and policy of non-compete clauses in the United States and their implications / Jay P. Kesan and Carol M. Hayes -- Innovation in public sector research / Ann L. Monotti -- Technology transfer law, policies and practices at the U.S. National Institutes of Health / Claire T. Driscoll --Licensing university intellectual property: ownership and management of intellectual property in the United Kingdom / Noel Byrne -- Innovation through the lens of corporate governance / John Duns -- Institutions and innovation: is corporate governance the missing link? / Simon Deakin and Andrea Mina.
Based on papers presented at a conference held in May 2011 in Monash University Prato Centre, Italy.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Research, Industrial -- Law and legislation -- Congresses; Technological innovations -- Law and legislation -- Congresses; Business enterprises -- Technological innovations -- Congresses