The existing temporary protection system seems to protect patent applicants through royalties. In fact, due its emphasis on technology dissemination, pursuit of judicial efficiency, and lack relief for cost recovery during the duration, is ineffective. abnormal mode that holds “double given when a authorized no not authorized” provides larger room “submarine patent”. Concerning behavior “implem...

Biodiversity prospecting, or the investigation of biological samples for potential new pharmaceutical products or biotechnology, has drawn considerable attention as a source of revenues for governments concerned with the preservation of biodiversity. Recent agreements designed to extract some of the surplus associated with the marketing of successful products by firms have employed royalties on...

Recent studies indicate that strong systems of property rights are not a necessary condition for the operation of the soybean seed market in the Americas (Wright; Pardey, 2006; Endres; Goldsmith, 2007). These studies are based on a dichotomy. The North – represented by the U.S. – is a strong institutional environment in which agrobiotechnology firms adopt an optimal strategy, setting technologi...

In March 1908, the BASF at Ludwigshafen provided financial support to Fritz Haber in his attempt to synthesize ammonia from the elements. The process that now famously bears his name was demonstrated to BASF in July 1909. However, its engineer was Haber’s private assistant, Robert Le Rossignol, a young British chemist from the Channel Islands with whom Haber made a generous financial arrangemen...

(see NEWSBRIEFS on p. 8) R at the Beckman Laser Institute have scored a major success in the area of technology transfer with the licensing and marketing of a patented cooling device used for many of the most common laser-based medical procedures. The Dynamic Cooling DeviceTM (DCD), which provides rapid and spatially selective cooling of the epidermis during laser treatments for a variety of sk...