The Intellectual Property Debate: Perspectives from Law, Economics and Political Economy

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Meir Perez Pugatch
Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 M01 1 - 392 páginas
. . . a lovely little book which is full of telling points. Read it and you won t be disappointed. Jeremy Phillips, IPkat.com Meir Pugatch has done an excellent job by assembling an international and diverse cast of contributing authors, who have offered

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debating IPRs
1
1 A critical analysis of the TRIPS agreement
17
2 The TRIPS agreement the damage to the WTO
33
3 Can stronger intellectual property rights boost trade foreign direct investment and licensing in developing countries?
44
an EU perspective of a global question
62
PART II IPRs business and publicprivate partnerships
79
5 What is an idea worth?
81
strategic management implications for SMEs
103
11 Patenting genes
187
PART IV IPRs competition access and antitrust in the age of the information society
211
12 Balancing intellectual property rights and competition law in a dynamic knowledgebased European economy
213
the stakeholders in the Kazaa era1
230
the end of the public domain or constitutional reconceptualization?
268
PART V IPRs and geographical indications
291
15 Geographical indications and TRIPS
293
16 The treatment of geographical indications in recent regional and bilateral free trade agreements
305

7 Encouraging cooperation among the academic government and private sectors in US biomedical RD
118
is it time for a Bayh Dole Modernization Act?
139
PART III IPRs pharmaceuticals and biotechnology
157
a global public good?
159
10 The realities of TRIPS patents and access to medicines in developing countries
170
17 Geographic indications trade and the functioning of markets
345
placing IPRs at the heart of the public discourse
361
Index
365
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Página 342 - When all the parties to the earlier treaty are parties also to the later treaty but the earlier treaty is not terminated or suspended in operation under article 59, the earlier treaty applies only to the extent that its provisions are compatible with those of the later treaty.
Página 1 - Provided also and be it declared and enacted* That any declaration before mentioned shall not extend to any letters patents and grants of privilege for the term of fourteen years or under hereafter to be made of the sole working or making of any manner of new manufactures within this realm to the true and first inventor and inventors of such manufactures which others at the time of making such letters patents and grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the law nor mischievous to...
Página 1 - Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters Patents and Grants shall not use, so as also they be not contrary to the Law, nor mischievous to the State, by raising Prices of Commodities at home, or Hurt of Trade, or generally inconvenient...
Página 192 - An element isolated from the human body or otherwise produced by means of a technical process, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene, may constitute a patentable invention, even if the structure of that element is identical to that of a natural element.
Página 343 - Article 6 bis (1) The countries of the Union undertake, either administratively if their legislation so permits, or at the request of an interested party, to refuse or to cancel the registration and to prohibit the use of a trademark which constitutes a reproduction, imitation or translation liable to create confusion with a mark considered by the competent authority of the country of registration or use to be well-known in that country...
Página 3 - The right to property being inviolable and sacred, no one ought to be deprived of it, except in cases of evident public necessity, legally ascertained, and on condition of a previous just indemnity.
Página 339 - Any act of competition contrary to honest practices in industrial or commercial matters constitutes an act of unfair competition.

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Edited by Meir Perez Pugatch, University of Haifa, Israel

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