researchers and healthcare providers without infringing a gene patent. Many have voiced concern that this perceived thicket of … mentioned in a US patent claim. The myth that 20% of human genes are “patented” has taken root because too many have incorrectly … inferred that the mere “mention” of a gene in a patent claim precludes all uses of the gene. To better understand the actual …

Open source software and the movement behind it, the Open Source Software Movement unknown to many has been in … existence since long. Discussed in the article is this concept with relevance to the software industry. The US statutes on … sourcing, which have turned out to be the buzzwords in the computer software industry are also brought into limelight. A look …

of so-called open source software (OSS). OSS is marked by free access to the software and its source code. Copyright …-based OSS licenses permit users to use, change, improve and redistribute the software, which is designed and developed in a …

, especially copyright and patent. This expansion has caused overlap to occur between rights, thus allowing for an inefficient … individual right. The overlap between copyright and patent has especially proven to be problematic when applied to computer … software. A theoretical solution to this overlap is the exclusion of copyright protection to computer software, due to its …

respect of 3D printing studios, and aligning this with the legal issues that may emerge in the context of patent, copyright …

the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent … stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization …

of the receiving country. We test the empirical implications of our model using patent data in renewable and fossil … Moment estimator. We show that knowledge transfer through patent duplication increases with the level of IPR protection, but … more sensitive to uncertainty. Commitment to EPs also increases the incentives for patent duplication. The magnitude of the …