discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

The patent law regimes of the United States and Europe are ambiguous regarding whether or not the subject matter of … defining technology; and it confounds contemporary decision-making by patent offices on the patentability of inventions and by … physical in order to be technical. Despite such ambiguity, patent law throughout the world is arguably founded on the idea that …

Between 1980 and 2001, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded over 8,000 patents on genes and genetic … to a variety of issues, including their relatively recent arrival into the patent realm, their grant of exclusivity over … factors, dealing directly with the application of patent laws, and policy factors, implicating problems of access, cost, and …

the statutory basis for exhaustion (in copyright) and common law basis (in patent and trademark law) and compare these …

a patent system would function with the proposed changes. A chart, keyed to the draft treaty articles, is included to … basic international patent law, it is written for general patent specialists and business persons who want to know what is … going on at the patent harmonization meetings. Section III is a detailed review of the 7th meeting discussions, based on …

It is hoped that this rather comprehensive review, of patent law harmonization treaty work in process, will help … reviewing several reports on this meeting. WIPO has published a report summarizing the 7th meeting of experts on patent law … I of this article includes a brief explanation of the WIPO treaty process. Section II gives an overview of how a patent …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …