Property Right Protection of Reproducible Genetic Material

Legal Protection of the Right to Voice

Right on voice is one of the rights which protect of person’s voice and sound and prohibit of imitation (sound effects) and sound forgery. Today on the light of increasing developments of communications this right includes some forms and instances which protected by legal systems in different ways. In some of the legal systems, this right has recognized on the basis of personality rights and ri...

Intellectual Property Right Protection in the Software Market

We discuss the software patent should be granted or not. There exist two types of coping in the software market; reverse engineering and software duplication. Software patent can prevent both types of copies since a patent protects an idea. If the software is not protected by a patent, software producer cannot prevent reverse engineering. However, the producer can prevent the software duplicati...

Steady the course: property rights in genetic material.

Traditional Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Protection

International Protection of Intellectual Property

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that differ in market size and in their capacity for innovation. After describing the determination of national patent policies in a noncooperative regime of patent protection, we ask, “Why is intellectual property better...