Intellectual property and the new global Japanese economy

• Main Author: Taplin, Ruth.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Series: Routledge studies in the growth economies of Asia ; 87.
• Subjects: Intellectual property > Economic aspects > Japan.; LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.; Japan > Economic policy > 1989-; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

This book examines how intellectual property (IP) is used in Japan, and how in recent years it has developed a new approach to IP, borrowed from the US and Europe, stressing the importance of innovation, to revitalise the Japanese economy from the stagnation and deflation that characterised the 1990...

Table of Contents:

• Roots of IP drive and economic globalization
• Japan as an IP nation
• Historical perspectives of the economy and IP
• Cross-border IP and fast tracking of patent applications
• Changes to the Patent Court and employees' rights to compensation
• Changes in Japanese corporate governance
• Future developments in the Japanese exchanges.