Is Patent Law Technology Specific?
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چکیده
Fundamental shifts in technology and in the economic landscape are rapidly making the current system of intellectual property rights unworkable and ineffective. Designed more than 100 years ago to meet the simpler needs of an industrial era, it is an undifferentiated, one-sizefits-all system. Although treating all advances in knowledge in the same way may have worked when most patents were granted for new mechanical devices, todays brainpower industries pose challenges that are far more complex.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- CoRR
دوره cs.CY/0109107 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001