This paper analyses firms' decisions to seek intellectual property rights in global markets, particularly in China. We advance the notion of quadic patent family, defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications at the European Patent Office, the Japanese Patent Office, the United...

В статье рассматриваются аспекты понятия и специфики правовой сущности такого института гражданского права как исключительные права.

The inventive activity of people should be protected for the authors to receive recognition, as well as material and financial rights. The patent is a unique title for protection of results with industrial application, giving to holder the possibility of valorization of his exclusive right of...

One of the areas of significant importance in the growth of Information Technology (IT) in the world is the issue of open source software. The movement of open source software has led to considerable advancement and transformation in the world's IT industry. It is considered as one of the...