Intellectual Property Donations: The Industry Benefits

Intellectual Property and Consolidation in the Seed Industry

Intellectual property protections on seeds have increased dramatically in recent decades, from the granting of patent-like protections on certain types of seeds in 1970 to the enforcement of contract provisions for seeds beyond the first sale in 2013. During this same period, the seed industry has experienced rapid consolidation. Although as recently as the 1970s, it was characterized by thousa...

Intellectual property rights . Imperatives for the knowledge industry q

This paper provides a broad-ranging review in a global context of many aspects of developing changes in intellectual property rights (IPR) in response to the currently rapidly changing technological and information industries. As such, it covers such matters as knowledge ownership, the IPR framework, TRIPS and WTO in relation to developing countries, technology transfer and balance in a world-w...

Intellectual Property Strategy in the Global Cosmetics Industry

In this paper we analyze aspects of the intellectual property strategies of firms in the global cosmetics and toilet preparations industry. Using detailed data on all 4,205 EPO patent grants in the relevant IPC class between 1980 and 2001, we find that about 15 percent of all patents are challenged in EPO opposition proceedings, a rate about twice as high as in the overall population of EPO pat...

Of Harms and Benefits : Torts , Restitution , and Intellectual Property

COPYRIGHT and patent take the form of ordinary property. As tangible property has physical edges, intellectual property statutes create boundaries by defining the subject matters within their zone of protection. As real property owners have rights to prevent strangers from entering their land, intellectual property statutes and case law grant owners rights to exclude strangers from using the pr...

Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property and Effective University-industry Partnerships