INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 3 I. EXPORTING CLINICAL TRIAL DATA EXCLUSIVITY REGIMES FROM DEVELOPED TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES .......................... 9 A. The Egregiously High Costs and Risks of Clinical Trials .......... 9 B. The Domestic Response .............................................................. 11 C....

This article explores how online multiplayer digital games are used as a venue for the negotiation of intellectual property rights. Recent disputes between players and creators are contributing to both a shift in contemporary notions about the nature and limits of copyright and a growing relationship between virtual leisure and real-world economics. A brief overview of the debate as it has been...

This review article gives a brief overview of some of the key legal challenges the OpenScienceLink, http://opensciencelink.eu (hereafter OSL) project faced with publishing biomedical research data online on an open access and re-use basis. Firstly, we give an overview of some of the key privacy challenges that the OSL project faced. Secondly, we analyse the intellectual property challenges that...

As a result of external pressures and to meet its own economic objectives, China has been moving its intellectual property rights (IPR) regime closer to those found in many more developed nations. As China’s economy grows, its transition from manufacturingbased to knowledge-based production, more comprehensive laws, and more attention to enforcement have led to an increase in the number of IPR ...

The role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) is very effective in pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. In pharmaceutical industry regarding health sector it clearly defines the market price of the drugs whereas during recession most company owners were spent their money to build the R&D and also they strengthened the IPR cells. It also clearly defines the patent, patent term restorati...

The development and diffusion of antibiotics contributed to large improvements in human health and living standards. The antibiotic revolution also spawned the modern pharmaceutical industry. This paper reviews the development of the early antibiotics, and the roles of intellectual property rights (in particular, patents) in their development and diffusion. Though today the pharmaceutical secto...

30 Computer The Evitability of Software Patents A n Australian patent examiner more than 40 years ago, I’ve maintained a sporadic interest in the law of intellectual property and been disturbed by the developing saga of software patents. Although the intellectual property laws of any two countries—such as Australia and the US, for example—exhibit significant differences, my disquiet goes far be...

© Springer India 2015 K. K. Singh, Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights, DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2059-6_2 Modern biotechnological advances have posed new challenges before the existing patent laws of countries as biotechnological inventions differ markedly from chemical and mechanical inventions that have been the traditional subject matter of patents. With the development of human gen...