The processing of data is often restricted by contractual and legal requirements for protecting privacy and IPRs. Policies provide means to control how and by whom data is processed. Conditions of policies may depend on the previous processing of the data. However, existing policy languages do not provide means to express such conditions. In this work we present a formal model and language allo...

The possibility of this virtual “free lunch” has kindled interest in technology transfer. Inevitably, issues of IPR protection have come to the fore.1 There is a large body of literature on the subject, too large to even attempt to review and classify here. My objective therefore is to suggest fruitful areas for empirical research in developing countries on the relationship between IPRs and tec...

the complexity and diversity of international assignment or license of iprs and the territoriality principle, makes determining their applicable law difficult. the rules governing iprs, are distinct from applicable law to contractual issues, hence the importance of characterization in these contracts. party autonomy and the discretion of courts are faced with restrictions including competition ...

The globalized Indian economy now conforms to WTO’s laws of protection of intellectual property rights, though the economy faces greatly intensified price and non price competition. Patents make imitation and reverse engineering difficult. IPRs are used for protecting, projecting, propagating and positioning of brand image of companies and their products. Branding facilitates the acquiring and ...

The creative universe is constantly expanding and so is its dimensionality with new forms of arts and entertainment, new technologies and new scientific specialties. Legal and economic conditions easily get turbulent in the drag of this expansion process, creating all sorts of idiosyncracies, puzzles and paradoxes surrounding legal rights and economic values associated with creators and their c...

We consider a policy regime allowing academic institutions to grant industry the intellectual property rights (IPRs) over invention resulting from collaborations. If a firm plays an important role in generating an invention, the researcher offers the IPRs to the firm, as an incentive to collaborate. However, he retains certain domains where he can exploit an invention without having to apply fo...

Free Trade and Protection of Intellectual Property Rights: Can We Have One Without the Other?* This Paper is concerned with the interaction between trade policies and the protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). In particular, it investigates, within the framework of a general equilibrium model with endogenous growth, the welfare implications of an international agreement on one or bo...

This article uses the contemporary international politics of intellectual property rights (IPRs) as a lens to examine North-South conflicts over international economic governance and the possibilities of institutional reform. Although developing countries have limited control over the distributional and substantive dimensions of international institutions, they retain an important stake in a ru...