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TRIPS and the pharmaceutical industry: Prescription for profit?
Moerman, L. C.; van der Laan, S. L. - 2006
The impact of global patent regulation in the form of the WTO’s TRIPS Agreement has far reaching effects for the … pharmaceutical research and development agenda, such as ‘neglected diseases’. The terms and global nature of the TRIPS Agreement … health issues. The adoption of TRIPS presents significant challenges and opportunities in an era of globalisation for both …
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Using Prediction Markets to Motivate Public Participation in Patent Examination
Lian Jian - 2010
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while … having limited resources to conduct patent examinations. The patent examination process is too long and the quality of issued … patent. In these prediction markets, traders buy and sell bets for the outcomes of patent examinations. Our proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477902
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THE ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS UNDER IMPERFECT ENFORCEMENT: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, BIOTECHNOLOGY AND THE TRIPS AGREEMENT
Giannakas, Konstantinos - 2001
penalties for IPRinfringement under the TRIPs agreement follow the custom of retaliatory sanctions underthe GATT, enforcement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446832
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Managing Digital Piracy: Pricing and Protection
Sundararajan, Arun - 2004
This paper analyzes the optimal choice of pricing schedules andtechnological deterrence levels in a market with digital piracy wheresellers can influence the degree of piracy by implementing digitalrights management (DRM) systems. It is shown that a monopolist’soptimal pricing schedule can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435048
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A holistic audit of managing intellectual property: IP management in the Queensland Department of Primary Industries
Steffens, Paul R.; Waterhouse, Michael - 2000
The management of intellectual property (IP) within Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over recent years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438113
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Markets for Technology and Their Implications for Corporate Strategy
Arora, Ashish; Fosfuri, Andrea; Gambardella, Alfonso - 2000
Although market transactions for technologies, ideas, knowledge or information are limited by several well known imperfections, there is increasing evidence that they have become more common than in the past. In this paper we argue that these markets change the traditional mindset in which the...
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Combating Strategic Counterfeiters in Licit and Illicit Supply Chains
Cho, Soo-Haeng; Fang, Xin; Tayur, Sridhar - 2009
Today counterfeit products are being produced and consumed in all economies. While clothing and fashion accessories dominated counterfeit supply in the past, today's counterfeit goods are in a wide range of simple to sophisticated products including items that have an impact on personal health...
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Novel strategies to overcome barriers to commercialisation of new technologies: a case study from the Australian biotechnology industry
Hine, Damian; Millen, Damien - 2006
The biotechnology industry is shifting its value creation emphasis from R&D to manufacturing and market. Business models need to keep pace with this evolution. This paper reports on a single-case study of a new biotechnology firm, EpiTan Limited, and the life cycle stages it has progressed...
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Should We Give Every Cow Its Calf? Monopoly, Competition and Transaction Costs in the Promotion of Innovation and Creativity
Pollock, Rufus - 2008
The work presented here is part of a wider research programme oriented around three specific questions. First, how do individual agents appropriate returns from innovation and how is this affected by the availability (or not) of intellectual property rights such as copyrights and patents?...
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