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Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models : Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2015

Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The … exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a …

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Patent Pools and Clearinghouses in the Life Sciences : Back to the Future

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2016

Patents in the life sciences sector have sparked considerable debate over the past years. The grant of a series of … patents for the screening of breast cancer (BRCA) genes led to wide controversy in Europe, the US and Australia. The grant of … patents for plants resulting from essentially biological processes, also spurred stormy disputes. Decisions on the scope of …

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Harmonizing the Exclusionary Rights of Patents with Compulsory Licensing

Gwartney, Troy L. - 2009

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 …

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Towards Patent Pools in Biotechnology?

Gaule, Patrick - 2013

We analyze the extent to which patent pools (agreements where patent holders agree to license their intellectual property as a package) could be used as an institution to facilitate technology transactions in biotechnology. Patent pools have been used with success in the consumer electronics and...

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Chapter 48 Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives

Wright, Brian D.; Pardey, Philip G.; Nottenburg, Carol; … - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2533-2603). 2007

Investments in R&D and agricultural innovations have been fundamental to long-term economic growth worldwide. But global resource allocation has been uneven, with some developing countries closing in on developed-world scientific capacities, others regaining ground lost over the past decade or...

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The Implementation of the Biotechnology Directive in Belgium and its Aftereffects : The Introduction of a New Research Exemption and a Compulsory License for Public Health

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2014

, in 1949, the Office delivered the first patent for a plant, viz. a succulent. As for animals, the Office granted patents … for the culture of animal cells from 1970 onward. And as for human material, the Office first granted patents for human …

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Injunctions and hold-up under weak patent protection

Sim, Kyoungbo - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 1-30

This paper analyzes how injunctions relate to patent hold-up problems. To this end, we present a simple model of licensing negotiations between a patent holder and a downstream firm in the shadow of litigation. More specifically, we consider the situation in which an injunction is granted as a...

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A License to Kill (Innovation)? Open Source Licenses and Their Implications for Innovation

Tsur, Michal; David, Shay - 2014

This paper examines the implications of Open Source License (OSL) selection on software innovation, and suggests how modifying the Open Source Definition, or modifying certain provisions in OSLs that have become de-facto standard licenses in open source development, could better accommodate the...

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Chapter 19 Intellectual Property Law

Menell, Peter S.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1473-1570). 2007

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the burgeoning literature on the law and economics of intellectual property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and...

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The Value of Giving Away Secrets

Bar-Gill, Oren; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2014

This Essay demonstrates the strategic advantage of narrow patents and unprotected publication of R&D output. Broad … patents might stifle follow-on improvements by deterring potential cumulative innovators, who fear being held up by the … requirement in patent law that would further encourage narrow patents and unprotected publication by bolstering the credibility of …

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