The Eu-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is considered a new generation free trade agreement (FTA), with deeper commitments and covering many areas, in which the enforcement of intellectual property rights (IP) an important content that member countries must seriously implement. Therefore, identifying challenges to Vietnam's IP essential, order avoid long-term risks, as well make appropriate...

This paper responds to an invitation by the editors to consider whether the intellectual property (IP) regime suggests an appropriate model for protecting interests in detached human body parts. It begins by outlining the extent of existing IP protection for body parts in Europe, and the relevant strengths and weaknesses of the patent system in that regard. It then considers two further species...

Ownership of intellectual and tangible property (IP/TP) rights in agricultural biotechnology (ag-biotech) and transgenic plants has become critically important. For scientists in all institutions, whether industrialized or developing country, public or private sector, an understanding of IP/TP rights is fundamental in both research and development. Transgenic plants and ag-biotech products embo...

Abstract This article analyses the role of national and international intellectual property (IP) law in assessing IP as a protected investment. It offers two approaches for controlling investment arbitration related to rights (IPRs), followed by an examination implications challenges those approaches. Its main argument is that even if dispute arises from (IP investment), it does not necessarily...

Intellectual property (IP) rights differ from ordinary property rights. Historically, societies have tolerated monopolistic inefficiency from IP protection to incentivize intellectual asset creation. This paper considers how competitive markets can optimally allocate resources, bypassing that monopolistic inefficiency. It departs from earlier related work in three ways: First, it allows economi...

The emerging global trends in intellectual property (IP) commercialization and intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement and harmonization such as technology globalization, "niching", and licensing strategies, the diffusion of IPR standards and the divergence of IPR enforcement practices, are components of an emerging view of the importance of intellectual capital in corporate and national...

Ž . Intellectual Property IP management of explicit knowledge encapsulated in and managed by Intellectual Property Rights Ž . IPRs is discussed using the first comparative study of UK and Japanese IP management. IP’s role in both licensing and Ž . continuous learning, whether through licensing or patent information management PIM , is illustrated. Japanese companies actively search for technolo...

This article aims to evaluate the impact of a regional SME IP support programme in France led by the INPI (National Institute of IP) and the Lorraine regional government. The panel includes 150 regional SMEs. The data were collected through the use of the AIDA approach and a data analysis was carried out, including principal components analysis (PCA) and a hierarchical ascending classification ...

In this paper we propose that “norms-based” intellectual property systems exist and are an important complement to or substitute for law-based intellectual property systems. Normsbased IP systems operate on social norms that are held in common by members of a given community and specify the nature and extent of rights that a group member can assert to intellectual property. They also include pr...