paper will discuss the question from a European perspective, and investigate what impact emerging market patents may have on … employing patents as policy tools to stimulate innovation, and a more contemporary/economic approach looking at patents as … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

conserving biodiversity for at least two reasons. First, beyond bioprospecting, patents would seem only tangentially relevant to … biodiversity loss by those who assume that economic growth and environmental protection are mutually antithetical. However, patents … can indeed benefit biodiversity. This article illustrates how patents can combat each of the major threats to biodiversity …

embodies this power, but does it fulfill its essential purpose? This Note explores the scope of the exclusive rights of patents … v. MercExchange, this Note advocates a patent system that will allow access to stagnant patents sooner. The proposed …

of tacit knowledge codification, and to illuminate the role of intellectual property in the firm. Patents, for example … ameliorating the risks associated with loss of tacit knowledge. Thus, aside from the usual justifications for patents in terms of … know-how will always remain in tacit form, unpatented and uncodified. As with all codes, the use of patents assumes an …

Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human … controversies surrounding patents on plant traits and on human genes, and the growing discontent with some undesirable effects of … to invent and share. In other words: patents may be looked at as tools to reshape exclusions into inclusions, giving rise …

biotechnology patents, to cater for readers who are not familiar with patents and the like. The paper then presents a survey of the …

their quest into the judicial treatment of patents in different industry sectors. They present an in-depth commentary on …