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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Patent law"”.
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Patent law and non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
This thesis examines how patent law affects the right to health by influencing access to medicines for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). While acknowledging the critical role of patents in incentivizing pharmaceutical innovation, it underscores significant challenges posed by the current patent …
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Indonesia’s Patent Law at a Crossroads: Can Indonesia Implement a Constitutional Patent Law in the TRIPS and TRIPS-plus Era?
Patent law is historically known as a key driver for development. The limited exclusive rights provided to inventors incentivise research and development as well as investments in innovative products and services. Patents are also known for their social functions. Disclosure of the inventions prior …
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Open Innovation in the light of Patent Law.
… who make a creative contribution in terms of patent law to the resulting innovation. Chapter 3: State of the Scientific Research Evaluation of the state of scientific research has shown that there are very few studies on the interaction between patent law and OI on the low-level of concrete …
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The political economy of the research exemption in American patent law
… today is whether the acts of making and using a patented invention for research purposes should be exempt from infringement liability, also known as the research exemption. Most of the legal scholarship about the research exemption has focused on normative questions like whether the law should …
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The Relation of Patent Law and Wildlife Conservation Law in the United States
The existence of U.S. patents issued on inventions made using wildlife specimens presents legal, economic, policy, and resource management questions. The relation of patent law to wildlife conservation law is central to answering these questions. Patent law is designed to foster technological …
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Effect of patent law changes on the innovation strategy of Chinese and Indian Life Science companies as reflected in US patent filings
In this paper we evaluate how harmonization of patent laws in China and India to developed world standards has affected innovative research and development activity in the life sciences industry of those countries. The patents listed in the United States Patent and Trademark Office were used as a …
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Law Debugging --- Refining Software Patent Laws in the U.S. and China.
<p>This dissertation studies the patent protection for software related inventions in the U.S. and in China. It discusses the differences among trade secret law, copyright law, and patent law as the body of law to protect software inventions in the U.S. and concludes that patent law is …
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Let's not wait until a crisis for change to occur: a critical analysis of patent law in South Africa and its role in (not) fulfilling the constitutional right to health
… to its realisation. Research has identified patent law as a potential barrier to access. Research on how patent law creates a barrier to accessing affordable medicines has been focused on identification of the flaws within South Africa's patent regime. However, the impact of the high prices …
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Comparative Study on Patent Claim Interpretation: the United States and China
In the current U.S. and Chinese patent law, claims define the scope of patent rights. Despite the special care given to write patent claims, the meanings of claim terms are still disputed from time to time in litigation. Interpreting claims to determine the scope of a patent is the first and most …
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Softwarepatents - A change of Law?
This paper examines whether the granting of patents to software is just the consequent application of traditional patent law to a modern form of inventions or constitutes a substantial change of the patent law which, in a democratic society, should only be done by a parliamentary act of …
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Patentovatelnost biotechnologických vynálezů podle Evropské patentové úmluvy
Title: Patentability of biotechnological inventions under European Patent Convention The topic of thesis is the patentability of biotechnological inventions under the European Patent Convention (Munich, 1973) (hereinafter the "EPC") with special emphasis on decision making practices of the European …
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Learning About LED Lighting Technology Through Patents
<p>Patents and published patent applications are valuable resources to students, engineers, and researchers for learning about technology. This thesis investigated the ability to learn about a technology through the disclosures that are made in published patent applications and issued patents.</p> …
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Regulation of Novel Biomedical Technologies
… which was published in the Administrative Law Review in March 2008, examines the legality of the restrictions imposed by the administration of President George W. Bush on the funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells. Reaching the conclusion that the Bush Administration's …
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Preserving patent policy space and securing access to medicines in developing countries: the role of states and pharmaceutical corporations
This thesis examines the tension between patent rights and the right to health and it recognizes patent rights on pharmaceutical products as one of the factors responsible for the problem of lack of access to affordable medicines in developing countries. The thesis contends that, in order to …
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Communication Technologies and Society: Causality and Intervention
… to a concrete instance--the relationship between patent law and the invention and innovation of communication technologies--this study demonstrates the explanatory power of a structural causal approach in analyzing the relationship between the social formation and communication technologies. On …
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Exploring the legal means of enhancing access to essential medicines in South Africa
… of HIV and AIDS must comply with South African patent law and international obligations under the TRIPS agreement. However, the prices of patented and/or branded drugs supplied by the manufacturers may prevent equitable access to necessary drugs for South Africans. Recent international trade …
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Patent protection and incentives to innovate: trends and effects in Italy
The relationship between patent protection, incentives to innovate, the generation of innovations, and the accrual of benefits from innovation was investigated. The study was based on an analysis of research and development, patenting, productivity and output data for Italy. In 1979, Italy made …
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Patent protection and foreign direct investment in Uganda's mining sector: a legal analysis of intellectual property as an investment incentive
… decisions, they meticulously examine the laws and policies tailored by the host country to protect and manage their business assets, among other things. Examples of such laws include intellectual property laws that are categorised based on the specific intellectual rights associated with …
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Patents of traditional medicine inventions and their relationship with traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources in Namibia: proposals for legal reform
… safe and efficacious drugs and vaccines and how patent law assist this achieving this end. The study argues that patenting of traditional medicine inventions is possible without encroaching on the protection accorded to TK associated with GRs. It further argues that through the implementation of …
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