Enforcing Industrial Property Rights:Patent Protection From a Comparative Viewpoint

Enforcing Industrial Property Rights:Patent Protection From a Comparative Viewpoint
Dieter Stauder

ISBN 1–84113–571–2
Hart Publishing

The value of intellectual property rights in practice depends on whether the holder can take effective measures to prevent others from infringing them. Apart from taking the infringer to court, the right-holder can issue a
warning to refrain from the acts in question. The main object of this may be to arrive at a settlement with the infringing competitor, in which case the right-holder will merely send a letter to the other party, informing it of the
position with regard to IP rights and offering to negotiate.