Current Scenario of Patent Act: Compulsory Licensing

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 ...

Compulsory Patent and Trademark Licensing: A Framework for Analysis

Licensing and Patent Protection

We show the impact of technology licensing on optimal patent policy. Strong patent protection that eliminates imitation may not be the equilibrium outcome in the presence of licensing. Depending on the cost of innovation, licensing may either increase or reduce the strength of the patent protection. We thank an anonymous referee for helpful comments and suggestions. The usual disclaimer applies...

Markets in Intangibles: Patent Licensing

The absence of organized trading in intangibles has been a major hindrance to their recognition as assets in financial reports. Economic circumstances, however, change fast and markets in intangibles, particularly in patents and know-how, are operating both off and on-line (Internet). We examine the most active of these markets-the licensing of patents and know-how-which has grown exponentially...

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...