Author : Li Westerlund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 11,19 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
An academic work, this volume examines patent and intellectual property laws with reference to the biotechnical industries in both Europe and the United States.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 15,92 MB
Release : 2003-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309167183
This volume assembles papers commissioned by the National Research Council's Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy (STEP) to inform judgments about the significant institutional and policy changes in the patent system made over the past two decades. The chapters fall into three areas. The first four chapters consider the determinants and effects of changes in patent "quality." Quality refers to whether patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) meet the statutory standards of patentability, including novelty, nonobviousness, and utility. The fifth and sixth chapters consider the growth in patent litigation, which may itself be a function of changes in the quality of contested patents. The final three chapters explore controversies associated with the extension of patents into new domains of technology, including biomedicine, software, and business methods.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309089107
The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Bioengineering
ISBN :
Author : Thomas C. Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2022-05-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108450881
This volume brings together a unique collection of legal, religious, ethical, and political perspectives to bear on debates concerning biotechnology patents, or 'patents on life'. The ever-increasing importance of biotechnologies has generated continual questions about how intellectual property law should treat such technologies, especially those raising ethical or social-justice concerns. Even after many years and court decisions, important contested issues remain concerning ownership of and rewards from biotechnology - from human genetic material to genetically engineered plants - and regarding the scope of moral or social-justice limitations on patents or licensing practices. This book explores a range of related issues, including questions concerning morality and patentability, biotechnology and human dignity, and what constitute fair rewards from genetic resources. It features high-level international, interfaith, and cross-disciplinary contributions from experts in law, religion, and ethics, including academics and practitioners, placing religious and secular perspectives into dialogue to examine the full implications of patenting life.
Author : Morten Walløe Tvedt
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Convention on Biological Diversity
ISBN : 2831709806
Fewer than 11% of CBD Parties have adopted substantive ABS law, and nearly all of these are developing countries, focusing almost entirely on the 'access' side of the equation. Most of the CBD's specific ABS obligations, however, relate to the other side of the equation-benefit sharing. This book considers the full range of ABS obligations, and how existing tools in user countries' national law can be used to achieve the CBD's third objective. It examines the laws of those user countries which have either declared that their ABS obligations are satisfied by existing national law, or have begun legislative development; the requirements, weaknesses and gaps in achieving benefit-sharing objectives; and the ways in which new or existing legal tools can be applied to these requirements.
Author : World Intellectual Property Organization
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 27,33 MB
Release : 2019-01-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9280530070
The first report in a new flagship series, WIPO Technology Trends, aims to shed light on the trends in innovation in artificial intelligence since the field first developed in the 1950s.
Author : Willem J. Ravensberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9400704372
Biocontrol is among the most promising methods for a safe, environmentally benign and sustainable pest control. Microbial pesticides offer a great potential, and it is anticipated that they will become a substantial part of the use of all crop protection products. Their development and commercialization, however, has been difficult and with many failures. In this book a rational and structured roadmap has been designed for the development and commercialization of microbial pest control products for the control of arthropod pests. The building blocks of the entire process are identified and essential aspects highlighted. Biopesticides based on entomopathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses and nematodes are elaborately discussed. This systematic roadmap with a strong focus on economics and market introduction will assist academic researchers and industrial developers of biopesticides in accomplishing their goal: the development of successful cost-effective microbial pesticides.
Author : Pluvia Zuniga
Publisher : WIPO
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN :
This study discusses the opportunities and challenges offered by patents to foster technology transfer from government funded research institutions in developing countries. It presents a review of policy frameworks and recent policy changes aimed to foster academic patenting and technology transfer in low- and middle-income countries. It then analyzes patenting activities by universities and public research organizations and compares these trends with respect to high-income countries. This analysis is complemented with an assessment of the current state of patenting and technology commercialization practices in a selected group of technology transfer offices.
Author : Barry L. Grossman
Publisher : BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,52 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Patent laws and legislation
ISBN : 9781570188862
"Section of Intellectual Property Law, American Bar Association."
