A Comparative Analysis of Patent Assertion Entities in Markets for Intellectual Property Rights

A Comparative Study on Patent Attorney in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Marin Genetic Resources in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction is a Subject in Intellectual Property Rights

The discovery of marine genetic resources has led to increase of the number of international maritime patent claims .Given the unique characteristics of these organisms, the genetic resources derived from these organisms have great potential in the medical field and for research and development in the fields of antioxidants, fungal treatments, AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis, malaria And antibiotics...

تعارض اصل حمایت از اختراعات دارویی و حقوق بشر؛ تفسیر حقوقی ماده 27 موافقت‌نامه تریپس

Today, pharmaceutical patents constitute an important part of industrial production and investment corporations have shown interest in this issue which is willing to protect these patents for assurance of investment in this area. While progress in this field has human interests, but the unconditional protection of such patents is in conflict with the right to health as one of the fundamental hu...

Determinants of quadic patenting: Market access, imitative threat, competition and strength of intellectual property rights

Article history: Received 10 September 2012 Received in revised form 19 March 2013 Accepted 5 April 2013 Available online xxxx This paper analyzes firms' decisions to seek intellectual property rights in global markets, particularly in China.We introduce the notion of a ‘quadic patent,’ defined as a patent family that consists of patent applications filed at the European Patent Office, the Japa...

The examination of intellectual right of medicinal plants and the issue of bio-theft due to agreement of TRIPS

Over the past two decades, the role of intellectual property rights in all areas of science and technology has exploded globally– primarily due to the rules prescribed by the World Trade Organization’s TRIPS and by bilateral/regional trade agreements. The TRIPS agreement obligates all WTO member countries to adopt and enforce minimum standards of intellectual property rights. The TRIPS agreemen...