Patents law

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in assessment.

This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines.

This book examines the impact of economic reforms in India on the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicines.

This collection reflects on contemporary and contentious issues in international rulemaking in regards to pharmaceutical patent law.

IP law has evolved from being a little pool to a big ocean.

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Advances in modern biotechnology have produced profound and far-reaching implications for the relationship between humans, animals and the environment.

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London.

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London.

Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights?

Hein and Moon take up a serious problem of contemporary global governance: what can be done when international trade rules prevent the realization of basic human rights?

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP).

Taking a global viewpoint, this volume addresses issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates over Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) and their relationship to Intellectual Property (IP).

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

Intellectual Property, Medicine and Health examines critical issues and debates, including access to knowledge and medicinal products, human rights and development, innovations in life technologies and the possibility for ethical frameworks for intellectual property law and its application in public health.

With reference to China, this book examines the course of international patent rights harmonisation; its characteristics as well as impediments.

With reference to China, this book examines the course of international patent rights harmonisation; its characteristics as well as impediments.

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property.

Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular focus on seed saving.

Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular focus on seed saving.

This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE).

This book provides a fresh, multidisciplinary, and exciting look at the making and remaking of pharmaceutical patents at the GATT/WTO, by utilising a Coxian political economy of continuity and change in the global political economy (GPE).

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

This volume provides a reference textbook and comprehensive compilation of multifaceted perspectives on the legal issues arising from the conservation and exploitation of non-human biological resources.

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented.

This book explores the question of whether software should be patented.

Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years.

Intellectual property rights have become increasingly important for our modern economies in recent years.

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat.

Globally, local and indigenous approaches to conserving biodiversity, crop improvement, and managing precious natural resources are under threat.

The need to regulate access to genetic resources and ensure a fair and equitable sharing of any resulting benefits was at the core of the development of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

The need to regulate access to genetic resources and ensure a fair and equitable sharing of any resulting benefits was at the core of the development of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).

In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death.

In developing countries, access to affordable medicines for the treatment of diseases such as AIDS and malaria remains a matter of life or death.

Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology.

Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology.

'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without compensation.

'Biopiracy' refers either to the unauthorised extraction of biological resources, such as plants with medicinal properties, and associated traditional knowledge from indigenous peoples and local communities, or to the patenting of spurious 'inventions' based on such knowledge or resources without compensation.

Discover new techniques for researching patents and trademarks!

Discover new techniques for researching patents and trademarks!

This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.

This book examines the politics of technology, and provides a detailed analysis of developments and debates within the European Union, international trade and governance.

There has been much written on the impact of international treaties like the Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property (TRIPS), which laments the failure of patent systems to respond to the interests of a diverse set of non-profit, public interest, and non-corporate entities.

There has been much written on the impact of international treaties like the Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property (TRIPS), which laments the failure of patent systems to respond to the interests of a diverse set of non-profit, public interest, and non-corporate entities.

The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency.

The global transmission of infectious diseases has fuelled the need for a more developed legal framework in international public health to provide prompt and specific guidance during a large-scale emergency.

How effective are patents for stimulating economic activity?