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Study on the Patenting of Inventions Related to Human Stem Cell Research

Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2012

aspects of patents resulting from research into stem cells. In response to this request, the Group announced at its first … them with the current information and documentation with regard to patents for human stem cell research. Ever since 1988 …, patents on ‘living’ material received much public attention, because of the delicate question to which extent ‘life’ and …

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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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Public provision of a private good: What is the point of the BSD license?

Gaudeul, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

Software is a potentially excludable public good. It is possible, at some cost, to exclude non-paying users from its consumption by using copyright law or technological restraints. Licensing the software under proprietary license terms makes of it a private good, licensing it under the BSD does...

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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China

Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

domestically filed patent applications in 2011, the quality of these patents needs improvement. Also, while certain innovation in … least partially meant to encourage patents, that can actually discourage quality patents, and highest-quality patents in … disputes that can hamper building of quality patents and innovation in China. These include concerns about abuse of patent …

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Protecting innovation through patents and trade secrets : determinants and performance impacts for firms with a single innovation

Crass, Dirk; Garcia-Valero, Francisco; Pitton, Francesco; … - 2016

This paper tests a number of hypotheses on the use and effectiveness of patents and trade secrets designed to protect … innovation. While previous studies have often considered patents and trade secrets as substitutes for one another, we investigate …

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Patents and R&D cartels

Prokop, Jacek; Karbowski, Adam - 2018

&D investments in the case of Cournot competition with no patents are higher than in the case of research cartel formed by the …

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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 …

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Delimiting Intellectual Property : Distinct Approaches to Spillovers

Geller, Paul Edward - 2019

This short essay assesses distinct approaches to delimiting intellectual property. Specifically, it addresses claims to control spillovers without which culture cannot move forward, notably spillovers of texts, images, techniques, information, ideas, etc. It contrasts methodologies: on the one...

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Injunctions and Hold-up under Weak Patent Protection

Sim, Kyoungbo - 2020

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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Double Patenting : Follow-On Pharmaceutical Patents that Suppress Competition

Rogers, Douglas L. - 2016

term by dressing up part of that invention as a new one. This prohibition against the same party holding two patents … the inventor in two patents and (2) only applying the prohibition when the earlier patent did not satisfy the technical …

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