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Beyond Intellectual Property:

Matching Information Protection to Innovation

"Beyond Intellectual Property explores the many means by which information is protected. Based on thorough empirical research in the US and Europe as well as practical experience of economic innovation, it goes far beyond the traditional realm of intellectual property (IP). It also identifies the need for urgent reform of present arrangements and suggests practical ways of achieving this." "New instruments for protecting investment in information have been historically important for initiating long-wave economic cycles. William Kingston argues that although IP has been one such method, it is increasingly proving ineffective because its laws have been progressively shaped by the interests that benefit from them, rather than by visions of the public good. He demonstrates that repair will require such visions, which would also underwrite radically new forms of information protection." This insightful book defines, describes and distinguishes between information, knowledge and meaning, and explains why information now needs changed forms of legal protection if it is to be of genuine economic value. As such, it will be of great interest to economic policy-makers, students of IP and innovation, patent agents and attorneys.

Table of Contents

Preface

1 Information, property rights and innovation 1

2 The most-used information protection means: capability and marketing 17

3 Protecting disembodied information: áintellectual property' 42

4 International information protection 65

5 Information protection and visions of the public good 82

6 How interests came to shape information protection 100

7 Rescuing a dysfunctional system 125

8 Compulsory arbitration for dispute resolution 148

9 Better measurement for information protection 161

10 Protecting the information of smaller firms 177

11 Direct protection of innovation 205

12 Epilogue: must interests prevail? 230

Index 241

256 pages, Hardcover