Intellectual Property Monopolies: Towards a New Mercantilism

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...

new challenges of intellectual property rights

because of its very dynamic nature and its close ties with global commerce, intellectual property law is one of the liveliest areas of law. the significant of this branch of law is manifested in the debate which is going on between developed and developing countries in terms of the scope of the protection of intellectual property rights. on the one hand, the developed country argue the stronger...

Intellectual property.

Toward a New U.s.-china Intellectual Property Enforcement Strategy

Massive piracy and counterfeiting has been the subject of a perennial dispute between China and the United States. Although China‘s accession to the World Trade Organization (―WTO‖) has provided the United States with a new weapon in its arsenal—the mandatory dispute settlement process—the recent panel decision on China—Measures Affecting the Protection and Enforcement of Intellectual Property ...