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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Patent laws"”.
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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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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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Unilateral patent misuse : a comparative study of U.S., EC and Brazilian patent and antitrust laws
… and needless trade-offs above mentioned. When a patentee asks for relief against an infringer, it does not matter whether patents provide rewards or prospects to patentees, or even whether their role is to avoid rent dissipation. If courts were required to verify whether the patentees had …
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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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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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Legal regulation of the software "patentable subject matter" requirement in the US and in Europe: The need for certainty, predictability and uniformity
… approaches to the legal regulation of the patentability of computer software inventions, with a view to identifying the reforms necessary for a certain, predictable and uniform inter-jurisdictional system of protection. Through a critical analysis of the traditional and contemporary US and …
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The Political-Economy of Science and (Bio)Technology: The Emergence of Agricultural Biotechnology in Canada
… broadly accommodates capital by promoting the patenting of life forms in agriculture, concentration and centralization among multinational GM seed and agrochemical corporations, and the global production of GM crops. In the Canadian case, an attempt is made by the state to secure the …
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Is the TRIPS Agreement and its' safeguards still a stumbling block in fulfilling the right to health and if so what should be done?
… One of the greatest hurdles to overcome is the patentability of pharmaceuticals in the health sector; such patents are undoubtedly limiting the availability and affordability of the life saving anti retroviral medicines (hereinafter ARV's) required to treat the disease. If we are to combat HIV/ …
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An analysis of the legal protection given to software by copyrights and patents within Europe and the United States
… would be protected, namely copyright and patents. Once this has been established, this dissertation will consider the issues relating to software protection through copyright. The examination will focus on what, specifically, can be protected by copyright in a computer program as well as …