Immateriality and materiality in intellectual property: an indisputable dichotomy or essentially entwined?

Traditional medicine and intellectual property

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...

Traditional medicine and intellectual property

Medical plants have a great value in traditional knowledge related to human health care both used whole plant or consisting in curative remedies. These valuable uses has been led to commercial use of medicinal plants and their derivatives which makes great benefits. Also there is a growing desire to use of completely natural materials as curative drugs around the world. These facts show up a gr...

Aquinas on the Materiality of the Human Soul and the Immateriality of the Human Intellect

Contemporary philosophers tend to become interested in Aquinas’s conception of the mind when they perceive it as possibly offering a promising alternative between “the Scylla of materialism and the Charybdis of dualism”. They tend to become disillusioned, however, when they run into the problem of the apparent inconsistency in Aquinas’s conception. Furthermore, if they manage somehow to get ove...

Valuing Intellectual Property: an Experiment

I. THE BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R A. Classical Economics and Intellectual Property . . . . . . . 5 R B. Behavioral Challenges to the Rational Choice Model: The Endowment Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 R 1. The Strength of the Endowment Effect . ....

Intellectual property.