Intellectual Property category: 394 books
Intellectual Property and Genetically Modified Organisms
A Convergence in Laws
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP). The work examines changing responses to the growing acceptance and prevalence...
A Politics of Patent Law
Crafting the Participatory Patent Bargain
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
There has been much written on the impact of international treaties like the Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property (TRIPS), which laments the failure of patent systems to respond to the interests of a diverse set of non-profit, public interest, and non-corporate entities. This book examines...
Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change
Interpreting the TRIPS Agreement for Environmentally Sound Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
As the world confronts global warming, there is a growing consensus that the TRIPS Agreement could be a more effective instrument for mitigating climate change. In this innovative work, Wei Zhuang systematically examines the contextual elements that can be used in the interpretation of the TRIPS Agreement...
Pills for the Poorest
An Exploration of TRIPS and Access to Medication in Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The desperate need for a vast part of the global population to access better medicines in more certain ways is one of the biggest concerns of the modern era. Pills for the Poorest offers a new perspective on the much-debated issue of the links between intellectual property and access to medication. Using...
Intellectual Property and the New International Economic Order
Oligopoly, Regulation, and Wealth Redistribution in the Global Knowledge Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In economic sectors crucial to human welfare—agriculture, education, and medicine—a small number of firms control global markets, primarily by enforcing intellectual property (IP) rights incorporated into trade agreements made in the 1980s onward: such rights include patents on seeds and medicines,...
by Janice Denoncourt
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
IP law has evolved from being a little pool to a big ocean. Corporate governance needs to respond to society’s rising expectations of directors and boards as the impact of the global intellectual property ecosystem is felt. How can a responsible corporate culture of IP transparency be stimulated...
Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
A Twentieth Century History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book analyses the history of the international patent regime and the life science industries, both of which can be traced back to the late 19th century. The development of patent law is inextricably linked to expanding capacities to elucidate, manipulate and commercially exploit the molecular...
Intellectual Property and Innovation Protection
New Practices and New Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book analyses the various ways in which intellectual property (IP) operates in relation to innovation activity. It reflects on the “classical” issues of the IP system related to the necessity of protecting risky and often costly investments undertaken by firms and others players involved...
Spin-Outs
Creating Businesses from University Intellectual Property
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Universities increasingly encourage spin-out companies from their own departments, and interest from entrepreneurs and the commercial sphere is only set to develop further in coming years. With this in mind, Professor Graham Richards - an academic and businessman who has had many years of involvement...
Community Resources
Intellectual Property, International Trade and Protection of Traditional Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Protection of traditional knowledge and resources is of critical concern not only to the groups involved but also to the international trading community for which these resources are of increasing economic importance. This work examines the concept of 'community', intellectual property models and...
Friends Hold All Things in Common
Tradition, Intellectual Property, and the Adages of Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Erasmus’ Adages-a vast collection of the proverbial wisdom of Greek and Roman antiquity-was published in 1508 and became one of the most influential works of the Renaissance. It also marked a turning point in the history of Western thinking about literary property. At once a singularly successful commercial...
Copyright The Key to Global Economic Growth!
An opportunity for S.m.e.s
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
This Book is primarily addressed to those impassioned for justice and hope for the future because it provides expansive perspectives for the development of an economy increasingly honed on serving Humanity.Inventors and conceptors from any discipline will find “solutions” suited to their focal...
Piracy
The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of America, for instance, claimed that in 2005 the film...
Fan Fiction and Copyright
Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
As long as there have been fans, there has been fan fiction. There seems to be a fundamental human need to tell additional stories about the characters after the book, series, play or movie is over. But developments in information technology and copyright law have put these fan stories at risk of...