global resource allocation has been uneven, with some developing countries closing in on developed-world scientific …

’s Theorem without paying royalties, but rather if software and algorithms underlying the software are patentable. Although … software is based on algorithms similar to the algorithm discovered by Euclid, in the United States software are generally … patented.Open source paradigm — here explored — could resolve the software patentability issue, in addition to represent the …

To distribute software, commercial vendors of proprietary software have the opportunity to use some dual licensing (DL …) strategy i.e. to provide their software under two different licensing terms (proprietary and open source). We investigate the … relevance and impacts of this distribution strategy in the presence of an incumbent open source software competitor. We …

source software to run their business smoothly.Proprietary software is protected by copyright and/or patent that confers the …This thesis aims to provide clues on how software developers could use and distribute proprietary software and open … rightholders exclusive rights for the use of their software. The developers of proprietary software use their exclusive rights to …

exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a … inventions accessible for further use in research, diagnosis or treatment. The models include patent pools, clearing house … problems in the current gene patent landscape. • Descriptions of major models currently used to deal with patent thickets …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

advances in the technology must remain as openly available as the original technology. Such agreements implicate patent misuse …, which is defined as an impermissible attempt to expand the scope of the patent. Given that advancements were not part of the … teachings of the original patent, restrictions on those advancements may constitute misuse. The proper test for patent misuse is …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …