Global patents [electronic resource] : limits of transnational enforcement / Marketa Trimble. Trimble, Marketa. Patent laws and legislation. Intellectual property. K1505 .T75 2012 346.0486 23 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. This text explains why a 'global patent' does not exist. It identifies the barriers to its creation from both historical and current perspectives, and discusses the difficulties that arise as inventors, investors, and businesses strive to protect their inventions in the widest territory possible. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 2012. 2012 Text 1 online resource (ix, 233 p.) : http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199840687.001.0001 eng