The aims of the authors in this work are to identify the interfaces between traditional and modern ‘strategic’ means of industrial property management,and to offer an interchange of ideas between experts from a variety of backgrounds.

Each of the parts of this book are concerned with the latest thinking in areas where ‘strategic’ thinking about industrial property is now most apparent. Key topics discussed include industrial property protection in the USA, Japan, Europe and Developing Countries, selected financial aspects of industrial property, industrial property rights in the context of Antitrust legislation, strategies for dispute settlement in industrial property, and the ethical and ecological aspects of industrial property rights.

Contributors: W. Dexter Brooks, Thomas Cueni, Carlos A. Primo Braga, Dirk Kruger, Harry C Sigman, David J Gerber, Valentine Korah, Marshall C. Phelps Jr, Robert Goldscheider, Nicholas P. Malatestinic, Adrian Otten, Melvin Sharp, Anil K Gupta, Klaus M Leisinger, Joseph D. Ben-Dak.