makes use of those resources, on mutually agreed terms, including technology protected by patents and other intellectual …

both tendencies, and reflects on the status of academic knowledge and the role of university patents in this delicate … whether knowledge emanating from universities can be privatized by way of patents, i.e. we will be looking at the legitimacy … - albeit only for a short while - in the problematic issues related to the acquiring of patents by universities ('the existence …

Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human … controversies surrounding patents on plant traits and on human genes, and the growing discontent with some undesirable effects of … to invent and share. In other words: patents may be looked at as tools to reshape exclusions into inclusions, giving rise …

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 …

In the ongoing debate concerning DNA patents, there is a need for empirical data. We aim at treating this data set for … DNA patents related to diagnostic genetic testing. To this end we developed two tools to facilitate this process. First …, we set up a search strategy to find the relevant patents. Second, we provide a claim classification template to assist …

The genetics community is increasingly concerned that patents might lead to restricted access to research and health …

paper will discuss the question from a European perspective, and investigate what impact emerging market patents may have on … employing patents as policy tools to stimulate innovation, and a more contemporary/economic approach looking at patents as … two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed …

private economic value of patents. The estimated mean of our patent value distribution is higher than 3 million Euros, the …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

as owners of real estate because patents were "property." Thus, by definition, patentees enjoyed the same rights as those … interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance …