Research on Frontier Issues of Intellectual Property Law

Author: Feng Xiaoqing
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: The legal system of intellectual property rights is a product of the development of science, technology, and the commodity economy. In the contemporary era, with the advancement of new technologies represented by the internet and information technology, as well as the intensification of economic globalization, intellectual property protection has become increasingly important. Based on intellectual property protection, the legal system of intellectual property rights will play an even more significant role in encouraging knowledge creation, promoting the widespread dissemination of knowledge and information, driving social and economic development, and advancing science and culture as humanity enters the 21st century. In China, the legal system of intellectual property rights has been gradually established and improved alongside the reform and opening-up and the development of socialist modernization. The refinement of China's intellectual property system has also provided broad space for the study of intellectual property law. In recent years, scholars have actively explored many aspects of the legal system of intellectual property rights and achieved fruitful results. After China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO), the country's intellectual property system has been integrated into the broader framework of global intellectual property protection. Strengthening the research on the legal system of intellectual property rights has become even more essential in response to the demands of the times. More and more universities have established teaching and research institutions for intellectual property rights, with some even founding schools of intellectual property rights, providing a solid foundation for the cultivation of high-level talents in this field and creating favorable conditions for academic research in intellectual property law. The study of intellectual property law is rich in content, encompassing issues such as institutional norms, judicial practice, international protection, and more. It has become increasingly important to systematically and theoretically organize this discipline, thereby forming philosophical insights. Such philosophical discussions largely involve fundamental theoretical issues in intellectual property law and, to a significant extent, constitute some of the cutting-edge topics in the field. For this reason, we have specifically selected several specialized topics for research, including the principle of interest balance in intellectual property law, the construction of interest balance mechanisms in intellectual property law, a study of the fair use system in copyright law from the perspective of interest balance, intellectual property rights conflicts and their coordination, an economic analysis of the copyright system, and a theoretical analysis of equivalent infringement in patent law. The research on these topics is characterized by its forward-looking, pioneering, theoretical, and practical nature, and the references cited are novel and comprehensive, with theoretical explanations being clear and accessible. This book is an important reading for the study of intellectual property law theory and is suitable for faculty and students in law schools, lawyers, judicial personnel, intellectual property administrators, and readers interested in intellectual property issues.