The multiple features of intellectual property rights and industrial competition are explored through the analytically …

innovation in climate-friendly, or green, technologies. A substantial literature has mapped the relationship between patent law …', at its early research stages, but that patents may still be important for green 'innovation'—encouraging the … literature, which may provide a useful framework to analyze patent law in the context of a variety of innovation incentive …

include privacy and cloning, some of the economic considerations of obtaining gene patents, the legal environment of gene …

In the 1990s developing countries implemented new patent regimes to comply with their international obligations under …, most countries implemented new patent regimes as if they were already more developed. Subsequent years have witnessed a … period of revision, as countries seek to redress the mismatch between their new, “oversized” TRIPS-style patent systems and …

Emerging in the nineteenth century, with a focus on classical engineering and chemistry, patent law has seen many … its impact on patent law, nanotechnology has to be defined and its peculiarities have to be identified. In this first part …; and the patentability of selection inventions. The legal discussion focuses on European patent law …