Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine

Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine

We look at compulsory licensing of intellectual property as remedy for anti-competitive practice. We identify aspects of intellectual property that warrants a different remedy from those using general definitions and remedies for essential facility. Based on the analysis, we present a characterisation of optimal compulsory licensing for a simple market. ∗Department of Economics, University of A...

Compulsory Licensing and Access to Medicine in Developing Countries

The Future of Healthcare Facilities: How Technology and Medical Advances May Shape Hospitals of the Future

In this review article, we aim to depict how healthcare facilities may look in the near future from an architectural design point of view. For this purpose, we review newly introduced technology and medical advances in the field of healthcare, such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotic surgery, 3D printing, and information technology (IT), and suggest how those advances may affect the archit...

Compulsory patent licensing and local drug manufacturing capacity in Africa.

Africa has the highest disease burden in the world and continues to depend on pharmaceutical imports to meet public health needs. As Asian manufacturers of generic medicines begin to operate under a more protectionist intellectual property regime, their ability to manufacture medicines at prices that are affordable to poorer countries is becoming more circumscribed. The Doha Declaration on the ...

Licensing Technology

Software piracy and licensing are becoming increasingly important in the Software industry. With the advent of computer networks and the explosion in the number of computer users, new concepts in licensing have come forth. In this report, we study the various licensing solutions possible in a networked environment under different requirements and constraints. We then take a look at some existin...