Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo objetiva verificar em que medida as patentes concedidas à indústria farmacêutica, para a proteção de medicamentos, atendem a função social da propriedade intelectual. Procura-se, comparar os benefícios trazidos à sociedade e às indústrias...

Portuguese Abstract: A tecnologia de impressão 3D, o objecto replicado por via dessa tecnologia e a responsabilidade das plataformas de partilha de ficheiros CAD para impressão 3D são três vetores fundamentais da realidade de impressão 3D que nos mostram que a mesma reveste extrema...

This paper has two main purposes. Firstly, to provide information about the obstacles faced by Brazilian Labor Justice in making its decisions really effective. Secondly, to offer data which may help to estimate the amount of money involved in no-complied decisions. Regarding this, the paper...

The objective of this paper is to combine three topics - international migration, poverty, and pandemics - in the context of public policy formulation at the national level. I revise the literature and put together historical evidence. First of all, I discuss international migration; second, I...

This text presents a set of empirical evidence to "test" some hypotheses about the impacts of Labor Justice on labor productivity. Hypotheses that this justice would encourage opportunistic and immediatist behaviors of employers and workers. And these behaviors would result in noncompliance with...