This paper examines, from a TRIPS Agreement perspective, the increasing delays that many patent offices suffer at … present in the examination of patent applications.Several factors contribute to these prolonged examinations, including the … increasing number of patent applications, the complexity of the technologies involved, the lack of sufficient resources and even …

how, and the extent to which a precautionary approach could be crystallized in the intellectual property (IP) patent …

implementation and administration of their patent systems.When the world's major patent systems first developed into their present …As a framework regulation for innovation markets, the patent system needs to be tailored to the innovation process … efficient functionality of the patent system as an innovation policy tool, patent rights ought to be defined, justified and …

-state arbitration may be the only forum where right holders can litigate international IP norms such as the TRIPS Agreement. This may …