ESTELLE DERCLAYE estelle.derclaye@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Intellectual Property Law
Patent law's role in the protection of the environment: re-assessing patent law and its justifications in the 21st century
Derclaye, Estelle
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Abstract
The question this article addresses is whether patent law is the appropriate forum to ban polluting inventions, especially those that emit greenhouse gases. To answer this question, the paper scrutinises the functions and justifications for patent law, the morality and ordre public provision (art. 53(a) European Patent Convention) and supplementary protection certificates along with the relevant case law and literature. The paper finds that patent law is only apparently neutral, and therefore this is not a hindrance to it having a role to play in prohibiting polluting technologies and also in encouraging the invention and use of clean technologies. This is also congruent with current patent law rationales and arguments advanced by commentators and others advocated by the author. The paper concludes that European patent laws should be modified to strengthen the prohibition of polluting inventions and grant favoured treatment to green inventions especially those reducing greenhouses gases in the earth’s atmosphere.
Citation
Derclaye, E. (2009). Patent law's role in the protection of the environment: re-assessing patent law and its justifications in the 21st century. International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 40(3),
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Jan 1, 2009 |
Deposit Date | Nov 6, 2014 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 2, 2022 |
Journal | International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law |
Print ISSN | 0018-9855 |
Electronic ISSN | 2195-0237 |
Publisher | Max-Planck-Institut für Immaterialgüter- und Wettbewerbsrecht |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 40 |
Issue | 3 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1014345 |
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