The Role of Intellectual Property Protection in Defense Industry

This book analyses the function of intellectual property protection particularly the protection of patents, copyrights, trademarks and tradesecrets, in development and independency of defense industries.

The book illustrates why and how a well-structured IPRs policy promotes diffusion of technological information and diversity in the dual use technology market and facilitates civil-military technology integration.

It is argued that governments should prevent the national security concerns to interfere with the technological advancement by generating convenient IPRs policies. The objective of building a defense ecosystem, where the government can access state of art technologies in the domestic and international market in a state that it is not destitute for importation from foreign defense monopolies for the acquisition of desired technologies, will only be fully achieved through commercialization of IPRs.