Critique of the Ontology of Intellectual Property Law

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Two ontologies; 3. Two abstractions; 4. Interim summary: an implausible paradigm; 5. The legal explanatory power of the two ontologies; 6. Normative critique of the abstract IP object.

About the author

Alexander Peukert is Professor of civil law, intellectual property, and competition law at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main/Germany. He has published five books and more than seventy articles in these fields, with a focus on the theoretical foundations of intellectual property law.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Peukert
• Assisted by: Gill Mertens (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108498326
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49832-6
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Intellectual Property / General, LAW / Property, intellectual property law, Property law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, property law