The Logic of Innovation

'Using Alice's travails in Wonderland as her diagnostic tool, in this book Johanna Gibson deconstructs the relationship between intellectual property rights and innovation with all the verve of Lewis Carroll as well as her own remarkable inter-disciplinarity in literature, philosophy and socio-linguistics along, of course, with law.' Hector L MacQueen, University of Edinburgh, UK 'With Alice as her wide-eyed guide, Professor Gibson embarks on an ambitious trip over language, logic, law, and literature, through a philosophical Wonderland. The work is a tour de force in the form of a journey showing how our preconceptions become curiouser and curiouser? when examined in her probing light.' Sheldon W. Halpern, The Ohio State University and Albany Law School, USA 'This is a towering work of imagination and insight, elegantly written and compellingly argued. If all scholarship was like this our intellectual world would be infinitely enriched. Reading intellectual property law through the looking glass proves an effective device for understanding its maze of rabbit holes, where they lead us and why it matters.' Fiona Macmillan, Birkbeck, University of London, UK