international laws and policies impacting access to medicine is a dynamic process in which competing patent perspectives (as well as … their confluence) play an important role. Whereas patent-owning companies are usually considered to dominate conversations …

This paper explores the workings of the patent system in the context of the generation of new pharmaceutical products …. First it identifies the relevant characteristics of the patent system and its relation to the market. The paper concedes … that, in general, the patent system is probably the best way of generating new technology, in substantial part because that …

-- Introduction: User Innovation and Medical Smartphone Applications -- Theoretical Background and Hypothesis Development … -- Methodology -- Findings -- Discussion -- Preliminary Conclusions -- Introduction: User Entrepreneurs for Social Innovation … draws conclusions for scholars and managers that are valid beyond this extreme case of user innovation. About the author …

innovative medical devices in institutions hinges not only on the devices' innovation level but also on the psychological factors …

The first sale or patent exhaustion doctrine reflects the limited nature of patents. In Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG … Electronics, Inc., the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that the authorized sale of a patented item exhausts the patent as … to that item. However, in the context of self-replicating technology, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion/first sale …

The policy concerns intersecting patent law and cryptographic technology relate to the technology’s beneficial uses in … embeddable cryptography facilitates its supply. Patent law for several decades has waxed and waned in its embrace of software …. This article documents the growth of cryptographic patenting. Then, in light of this growth and patent law’s resulting …

a patented item exhausts patent protection as to that particular item. However, it is unclear how the patent exhaustion … rather than patent law should govern the patent holder’s rights in an object embodying self-replicating technology after an …