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Intellectual property (IP) law operates with the ontological assumption that immaterial goods such as works, inventions, and designs exist, and that these abstract types can be owned like a piece of land. Alexander Peukert provides a comprehensive critique of this paradigm, showing that the abstract IP object is a speech-based construct, which first crystalised in the eighteenth century. He highlights the theoretical flaws of metaphysical object ontology and introduces John Searle's social ontol
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- Author
- Alexander Peukert, Gill Mertens [Translator]
- Publisher
- University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108735728
- Category
- law
- Subjects
- Law, Intellectual Property
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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