auspices of the World Trade Organization (‘WTO'). While some people applaud the development towards constitutionalisation, the …. Illustrative is the barrier against access to essential medicines caused by pharmaceutical patent protection under the WTO regime …

The relationship between innovation and the patent system is examined. To investigate the ways in which small- and … medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make use of the patent system, two mail surveys were conducted in 1996. The sample included … 687 manufacturing SMEs in the United Kingdom and 218 UK SMEs that had recently been granted at least one patent. Although …

“The global regime of intellectual property rights requires a new look. The United States prevailed upon the world to … toughen patent codes and cut down on intellectual piracy. But now transnational corporations and rich-country institutions are …

This paper examines, from a TRIPS Agreement perspective, the increasing delays that many patent offices suffer at … present in the examination of patent applications.Several factors contribute to these prolonged examinations, including the … increasing number of patent applications, the complexity of the technologies involved, the lack of sufficient resources and even …

developing world have been causing a great concern to the developing world. It further talks about the real challenge to Patent … by Traditional knowledge are lack of complete data bases and availability to all the patent offices in the world. Another … prime reason which the researchers think why Traditional knowledge is facing challenges in the patent as the locus of …

Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the …

allowing patent holders to subdivide the world market along national borders and to forbid trade in patented goods from one … safety standards, and intellectual property rules. Patent law, however, remains inconsistent with free-trade principles by … justification for restricting trade across national frontiers. The Article concludes that modern patent law doctrine should be …