ABSTRACT The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has enhanced global cooperation in a key area of International Economic Law. In particular, WIPO’s international intellectual property (IP) treaties have done much to bridge the territorial nature IP with business needs innovators and brand owners who operate an interconnected economy. They also vividly illustrate benefits multilatera...

Intellectual Property (IP) design is a rapidly growing industry and designers and users are being challenged to develop infrastructure and standard interfaces for this new industry. This research studies the impact that Intellectual Property cores have on the design of Systems-on-Chip (SoC) implemented on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). To obtain an understanding of the current state of...

This Recommendation describes the geometrical and transmission attributes of single-mode optical fibre and cable with chromatic dispersion and cutoff wavelength that are not shifted from the 1 310 nm wavelength region. Definitions and test methods are contained in a separate ITU-T G.650. Tables of recommended values for different sub-categories of this fibre type are provided to allow ease of r...

BACKGROUND Because of the problems measuring subjective well-being in people with severe and profound intellectual disabilities, there are no studies to date which explore the factors contributing to the subjective well-being in these groups. We wanted to explore the client and service characteristics contributing to the subjective well-being of persons with severe and profound intellectual dis...

Biological innovations in agriculture did not enjoy protection by formal intellectual property rights (IPRs) for a long time, but the recent trend has been one of considerable broadening and strengthening of these rights. We document the nature of these IPRs and their evolution, and provide an assessment of their impacts on innovation. We integrate elements of the institutional history of plant...

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 ...

I study the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in a model of endogenous growth with sequential innovation. The model mimics the innovation process in hi-tech sectors where many of the techniques and products used in R&D are recent discoveries themselves. Depending on the structure of the patent system, some of these discoveries might still be protected by a patent. In this context IPRs...

The paper divides the evolution of protection for intellectual property into three periods; the territorial, international and global periods. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) represents the beginning of the global period. Its consequences are briefly discussed. Developing countries, the paper suggests, have little to gain from TRIPS. This raises th...