[Specificities of patent protection in the pharmaceutical industry: modalities and traits of intellectual property].

Chemical Engineering Software and Legal Protection Thereof

In recent years, an increasing number of Chemical Engineering Software (CES), which play an important role in improving efficiency in the petroleum industry, has been introduced to the                market. Generally, software is the product of intellectual creativity, but protection of the intellectual property residing in software is the subject of some controversy.  This paper explores the ...

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Today, pharmaceutical patents constitute an important part of industrial production and investment corporations have shown interest in this issue which is willing to protect these patents for assurance of investment in this area. While progress in this field has human interests, but the unconditional protection of such patents is in conflict with the right to health as one of the fundamental hu...

A Comparative Study on Patent Attorney in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

TRIPs-Plus Treaties and Strengthening Protection of Pharmaceutical Inventions

After concluding TRIPs agreement, the sphere of negotiation in respect of protecting new kinds of intellectual property rights especially pharmaceutical inventions transferred to bilateral and regional arrangements. TRIPs agreement has some flexibility to attract all countries. Industrialized countries believed that multilateral agreements protections based especially in regard of pharmaceutica...

Patents and New Product Development in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Industries

This paper examines the rationale for intellectual property protection in the development of new pharmaceutical products. Prior survey studies of R&D executives have found that patents play a more critical role in appropriating the benefits of innovation in pharmaceuticals compared to other high tech industries. This paper considers why this is so based on an analysis of the economic characteri...