The protection, extent and utility of intellectual property rights (IPRs) are becoming increasingly a matter of concern throughout the world—in some countries for the first time. In such a state of affairs, it is important to clarify foundational issues. This paper endeavors to contribute a novel philosophical (rather than an empirical) analysis of intellectual property rights and their ramific...

Strengthening the management of IPRs (intellectual property rights) is one of the most important ways to improve an enterprise’s innovative capability. NST (NineStar Technology Co., Ltd, in Zhuhai, China) wins the recognition of both the domestic and the foreign markets through building an advanced IPRs management system to promote their products and institutional innovation, and to respond pos...

Obtaining essential intellectual property rights (IPRs) is important for innovation competition in the network industry, where technical standardization plays a critical role in development. In this study, we empirically investigate the determinants of essential IPRs for wireless communications standards by using the patent database. More specifically, we use the technological capabilities of b...

Fear of legal claims on intellectual property rights (IPRs) sometimes paralyzes standards processes. IPR procedures of standards bodies address such problems. However, by default unresolved problems will be addressed by the legal regime. The process of Java‘ standardization, which is a red thread in this article, well illustrates what may happen. In case of conflict between IPRs and compatibili...

The COVID-19 outbreak has created a global race for research into vaccine, diagnostic and therapeutic among institutes, governments, big-tech pharmaceutical companies (Big Pharma). In this context, intellectual property rights (IPRs) play prominent role in incentivizing vaccines. Simultaneously, IPRs, particularly the patent of Big Pharma, create restrictions on fair access to affordable Beside...

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) have become ubiquitous in the current debate and have emerged as the key issue of global innovation policy. The ‘Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights’ (TRIPS), signed on 1994 as a founding element of the World Trade Organization, represent the most important attempt to establish a global harmonization of Intellectual Property protection. The ...

The end of the 20 Century was marked by a sea change in global governance in the realm of intellectual property rights (IPRs). Whereas countries historically retained substantial autonomy in this policy domain, the 1990s witnessed the establishment of new global obligations regarding national practices for the treatment of intellectual property. This paper focuses on the case of software “pirac...

IPRs essential or potentially essential to the present document may have been declared to ETSI. The information pertaining to these essential IPRs, if any, is publicly available for E TSI members and non-members, and can be found in ETSI SR 000 314: " Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs); Essential, or potentially Essential, IPRs notified to ETSI in respect of ETSI standards" , which is availabl...

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Despite the obvious practical importance of the question, economists did not attempt until the 1990s to assess empirically the effects of international variations in the strength of IPRs. Without such evidence, the field lay open to strong claims on both sides of the debate—a situation that remains largely true today. Thus, for example, advocates of global harmonization of strongly protective s...