In this Statement, the authors take a position on waiver of intellectual property (IP) protection currently being considered by members World Trade Organisation. The was initiated India and South Africa as measure to enable rapid access affordable medical products that are necessary combat Covid-19. initiative gained momentum after US decided support it. do not consider path be expedient. State...

Intellectual property education, i.e. how intellectual property should be taught or more importantly how intellectual property is learnt, is a recent addition to the academic 'intellectual property' agenda. The regulation, acquisition and management of intellectual property rights presents economic, ethical, social and policy challenges across the international academic and business communities...

My research agenda examines the conflicts and compromises shaping the boundary between academic science and the commercial world -especially those wrought by substantial growth in the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights over basic scientific research. In particular, while the expansion of IP rights provides many opportunities for science-based firms and universities to commercializ...

Cellular communications are aligning rapidly to adopt suitable network models for supporting packet switched services over IP networks. Pure third generation (3G) wireless architectures have already adopted IP as the network layer bearer within their core network component specification. This article presents an architecture and protocol in support of proactive mobility management for future IP...

Utilizing economic theory, this paper tests the proposition that intellectual property rights and competition policy are complementary policies. An ordered probit model is applied to a sample of over 4,000 firms in 36 countries in order to estimate the marginal effects of the use and quality of enforcement of intellectual property rights on a measure of the degree of seriousness of competition ...

When content producers are forced to generate and manage content day after day (and, most of the time, in a hurry), as in the case of TV broadcasters, they have different priorities and requirements than other kinds of content providers. However, the requirement for content interchange through optimum content search is always there. The paper presents how the issue of interoperability of metada...

In the business process management parlance, different engagement models, such as bodyshopping, outsourcing, offshoring, etc. have evolved between the service providers and their clients over the last decade. The common denominator in these models is the distribution of work and/or that of workers across the globe. There is a gap in defining a framework to define different manifestations of glo...