Green Innovations and IPR Management

Table of Contents

Introduction. 

Part I: Green Intellectual Property Rights.

A. Green Patents. 
1. Legal Aspects of Green Patents; E. L. Lane. 

B. Green Trademarks. 
2. Legal Aspects of Green Trademarks;I. Kirchner-Freis, A. Kirchner. 
3. Best Practice: Eco-Label with Brand Character: Reliable Product Labelling of Type I According to ISO; S. Heutling, I. Oehme. 
4. Nordic Ecolabelling: An Introduction; R. Unge. 

C. Green Designs / Eco-Design. 
5. Legal Aspects of Designs; M. Schötelburg, J. Pinkowski. 
6. Best Practice: Developing Environmentally Friendly Products: Potentials and Challenges of Eco-Design; S. Zhao, K. Rath, H. Birkhofer. 

Part II: Exploiting Green Innovations.

A. Technology Transfer and Licensing. 
7. Technology Transfer and Licensing; I. Kirchner-Freis, A. Kirchner. 

B. IPR Management. 
8. IP Charta as a Guideline for a Sustainable IPR Management; K. Uckel . 
9. IPR Management and Technology Transfer; G. Caratti, H. Kebapci. 
10. Alternative Approaches to IPR Management; I. Kirchner-Freis, A. Kirchner. 

Part III: Green Economy. 
11. Resource Regimes and Resource-Monitoring as New Instruments of a Sustainable Resource Management; G.Müller-Christ. 
12. International Climate Change and Technology Transfer: General Framework and Recent Developments;L. Schiano di Pepe. 
13. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Ships and Technology Transfer; X. Hinrichs Oyarce. 
14. Green IT; I. Richter. 

Part IV: Initiatives to Support Green Innovations.
15. UNEP-EPO-ICTSD Patents and Clean Energy Technology Project; B. Simmons, A. Abdel Latif, K. Karachalios. 
16. WIPO Green: The Sustainable Technology Exchange; A. von der Ropp .