Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Sciences Industries: A Twentieth Century History

Introduction: Revisiting Garland Allen's Views on the History of the Life Sciences in the Twentieth Century.

This class explores the history of the life sciences over the course of the last century, with an emphasis on model organisms and how they shape research. The great puzzles of evolution, heredity, and development were posed in the nineteenth century, by naturalists working with a series of plants and animals including passionflowers, barnacles, pigeons and peas. The century just past delved dee...

Writing and Publishing Textbooks and Students' Rights from the Perspective of Islam and Intellectual Property Rights

The right to education, as a basic human right, is essential for all members of society, and its realization requires special facilities and tools. Textbooks are considered to be the most important tool that should be provided to learners and students in an appropriate and standard and comprehensive manner, without discrimination and not for profit. The aim of this study was to determine the st...

Twentieth-century sexuality: a history

Angus McLaren's ability to provide an overview of as complex a topic as sexuality in the mercurial twentieth-century is truly outstanding. In this book, he summarizeswith wit as well as historical accuracymany of the key issues that have shaped sexual identity throughout the last century. He does this by focusing on the stories that people tell about sex in court reports, newspaper clippings, m...

Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights

We study the determinants of patent suits and their outcomes over the period 1978-1999 by linking detailed information from the U.S. patent office, the federal court system, and industry sources. The probability of being involved in a suit is very heterogeneous, being much higher for valuable patents and for patents owned by individuals and smaller firms. Thus the patent system generates incent...

Intellectual Property Rights