This document presents an overview of recent changes in the patent regimes of United States, Japan and Europe. It has been prepared as part of the project on IPRs, Innovation and Economic Performance. It will be presented in the conference to take place on 28-29 August in Paris and incorporated into the final report of the project. Delegates are invited to comment on this draft, in particular o...

The processing of data is often restricted by contractual and legal requirements for protecting privacy and IPRs. In the Internet, policies provide means to control how and by whom data is processed. Conditions of policies may depend on the previous processing of the data and thus on the temporal structure of processing histories. However, existing policy languages do not provide means to expre...

The TRIPs agreement does not appear likely to alleviate any wealth differences arising from the existing North-South technology divide. Open-economy endogenous growth models suggest a dynamic shift towards further concentration of industrial R&D in the Northern countries. While production of goods developed as an outcome of this R&D may shift to Southern countries through the actions of multina...

For millennia, seeds have been freely available to use for farming and plant breeding without restriction. Within the past century, however, intellectual property rights (IPRs) have threatened this tradition. In response, a movement has emerged to counter the trend toward increasing consolidation of control and ownership of plant germplasm. One effort, the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI, www...

The purpose of the seminar was to discuss matters related to intellectual property rights (IPRs) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (the TRIPS Agreement) including recent developments in the area with particular emphasis on their implications for sustainable development. During the seminar four experts on IPR issues gave short presentations in which they ...

The progresses over the last few years of digital technologies, the rapid development of the Internet and of other colnmunication means, have caused an ever increasing need for protecting Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). The problem of the IPR protection for multimedia works exchanged through telematic networks have promoted industrial and research projects for the development of Electronic...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

The mission of the Communications Signal Processing (CSP) Research Group (RG) operating within Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) and Department of Communications Engineering (DCE) of Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering is to conduct world-class research, train world-class graduates, create new technology and IPRs, and support society by transferring technology to...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...

CI [1]'s work on Access to Knowledge (A2K [2]) is predicated upon the fact that intellectual property rights (IPRs) are a consumer issue, not just an issue for business. For example, the expansion of the scope and enforcement of intellectual property rights at the behest of rights holders impacts on consumers by inhibiting the sharing and development of culture, by denying consumers the freedom...