This work investigates the challenges of enforcement of patent rights in geographically divisible inventions. It is an inquiry into challenges posed by Internet to the established system of patent protection based on the territorial limitation of rights and focuses on substantive patent law, especially on the infringement provisions.

Agnieszka Kupzok specializes in intellectual property law. She is a recipient of a full scholarship at the International Max Planck Research School at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

Contents: Patent infringement – Patent enforcement – Territoriality – Internet – Substantive patent law – Balanced patent system – Comparative patent law.