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Kelvin W. Willoughby

Technology Choice

(Boulder and San Francisco: Westview Press, 1990). © Prof. Kelvin W. Willoughby.

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Kelvin W. Willoughby

Technology and the
Competitive Advantage of Regions

IURD Monograph No. 44 (Berkeley: University of California, 1993). © Prof. Kelvin W. Willoughby.

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Competitive Advantage

Kelvin W. Willoughby & Jeremy Moon

An Evaluation of Local Enterprise Initiatives: The Case of Esperance

(Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1989).

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An Evaluation of Local

Enterprise Initiatives

Kelvin W. Willoughby

Technology for Employment Creation

Second Edition (Fremantle & Sydney : APACE Publications, 1985). © Prof. Kelvin W. Willoughby.

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Technology for Employment Creation

Zhouying Jin (author)

Kelvin W. Willoughby (editor & co-translator)

Ying Bai (co-translator)

Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology

Second Edition (Bristol, UK; Portland, Oregon, USA: Intellect Books, 2010).

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Global Technological Change

Kelvin W. Willoughby

Minnesota's Competitive Position in the BioBusiness Technology Industries.

(St. Louis Park, MN: BioBusiness Alliance of Minnesota, 2011)

BioBusiness-MInnesota-2011.pdf

Kelvin W. Willoughby

What Can Be Patented?

Confronting the Confusion in Patent Law
About Patent Eligible Subject Matter

(Saarbrücken, Germany: Scholars’ Press, 2014) ISBN: 978-3-639-70068-8

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Patents play a critical role in business, society and technological innovation in the contemporary knowledge economy. The question of what types of inventions may be patented, however, has become highly contentious in patent offices, law courts, legislatures, scientific organizations, international trade forums and various business or social advocacy groups around the world. Under what conditions—if any—may computer software, DNA-based products, new business techniques, medical diagnostic methods, or systems operating over the Internet, for example, be patented? Conflict and confusion in the law surrounding these questions has created destructive uncertainty amongst technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, medical practitioners, community groups and policy makers. This book tackles the problem through a comparative study of statutory law and case law in the United States and Europe, as well as international law, concerned with what subject matter is patent eligible. In particular the book explores whether only technical inventions should be eligible for patent protection and, if so, whether those inventions must be physical in order to qualify as “technology” in patent law.

What Can Be Patented?

Confronting the Confusion in Patent Law About Patent Eligible Subject Matter