The Intellectual Property Rights Protection of Service Concepts

The Intellectual Property Rights Protection of Service Concepts

LAP Lambert Academic Publishing ( 2011-07-20 )

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Services and service innovation are significant for the global economy as the future’s hope of economic growth lies in innovative service business. The current IP legislation offers limited law-based means of protection of service concepts. Thus, my thesis aims to provide insights into how service concepts can be protected de lege lata by trademarks, copyright and unfair business practices legislation, and explore what other means of protection exist for service concepts outside the legislation. I also discuss the de lege ferenda possibility to protect service concepts by business method patents. Because of the similarities and the same existing ambiguity of the non-legal terms ‘concept’ and ‘format’, the debate about the copyright protection of TV formats is also of interest.

Book Details:

ISBN-13:

978-3-8454-1116-3

ISBN-10:

3845411163

EAN:

9783845411163

Book language:

English

By (author) :

Johanna Lahdenperä

Number of pages:

92

Published on:

2011-07-20

Category:

Law