Title: Closing the Gap: How EU Law Constrains National Rules Against Imitation
Abstract: If imitation was simply bad, society could just proclaim it unfair. But it is not. Imitation is a lifeblood of economy and culture.2 It fuels progress because it facilitates diffusion of new ideas. As much as innovators push the boundary of our knowledge, imitators help to disseminate it. Intellectual property rights are a tool for achieving balance between innovators and imitators. They try to motivate innovators to come up with new ideas and commercialize them, while keeping imitators at bay for a while. This artificial lead time allows them to recoup R&D investments so that they are economically motivated to innovate again.
Publication Year: 2020
Publication Date: 2020-12-29
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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