Patents for Power - Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology

"In this book the authors examine how the frameworks of intellectual property law shape the ways states create, acquire, and transmit defense technology. They begin by detailing the unique interface of state security concerns with intellectual property rights, with particular focus on patents and trade secrets. A comparative historical analysis traces the differences between American and Soviet approaches to military intellectual property during the Cold War, studying the benefits and drawbacks of each, and illustrating the ways that ideologically informed property regimes cultivated innovation, and contributed to control and diffusion of military technology. They then look at more contemporary policies about military technology and disputes between the United States and South Korea as well as between the Chinese and Russians over allegations of "stealing" military technology. They argue that the efforts of the Americans to protect technology through the intellectual property system might in fact assist other countries in obtaining critical technology"--

About the author

Robert M. Farley is a senior lecturer in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force and The Battleship Book. Davida H. Isaacs was a practicing intellectual property litigator for seven years. Having graduated from Brandeis University and then New York University School of Law, she later was on the faculty at various law schools, and with the Department of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, for ten years. She is currently an Administrative Law Judge for the federal government.

Product details

• Authors: Robert M Farley, Robert M Isaacs Farley, Robert M. Farley, Robert M. Isaacs Farley, Farley Robert M., Davida H Isaacs, Davida H. Isaacs
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780226716527
• ISBN: 978-0-226-71652-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Internationale Beziehungen, Militärtechnik, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, Legal Reference / Law Profession, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, LAW / Intellectual Property / Patent, intellectual property law, Arms negotiation & control, Constitutional & administrative law, Military engineering, Patents law