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Tradable Patent Rights
Ayres, Ian; Parchomovsky, Gideon - 2014
be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … first mechanism we discuss is price based regulation of patents through a system of increasing renewal fees. The second and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048289
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The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) and Patent Law
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2010
The paper critically analyses the various TRIPS provisions relevant to patent law. Topics covered include the relationship between the TRIPs agreement and other intellectual property treaties, patentable subject matter, patentability requirements, scope of protection, transfer and (voluntary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014188576
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Patent Law, HIPPO, and the Biodiversity Crisis
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196348
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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509446
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The Effect of Intellectual Property Rights on Domestic Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522504
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Patent-related actions taken in WTO members in response to the COVID-19 pandemic
Wu, Xiaoping; Khazin, Bassam Peter - 2020 - Manuscript date: 21 October 2020
COVID-19, caused by SARS-Cov-2, was declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization on 11 March 2020. Since then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and technologies - a longstanding and enduringly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303912
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Interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and its relevance to the implementation of the WTO Agreements
Wu, Xiaoping - 2017 - Manuscript date: 3 April 2017
The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632947
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Opening Dialogue on Intellectual Property
Geller, Paul Edward - 2016
This dialogue, between a philosopher and a lawyer, dramatizes the economic analysis of intellectual property critically. To start, with a stylized example of such property, it illustrates problems that the law has to address as cultural goods, such as works and inventions, tend to become public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130993
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Patent Law's Role in Protecting Public Health
Seymore, Sean B. - 2023
plants. Over the past century, the Patent Office and the courts have modulated the ability to obtain or enforce patents for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259379
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Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era
Watal, Jayashree; Dai, Rong - 2019 - Manuscript date: 28 March 2019
provide pharmaceutical product patents with a 20-year protection term. Developing country members, other than LDCs, were meant … the introduction of product patents in pharmaceuticals affect the likelihood of pharmaceutical firms to launch new and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992779