Since the TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) came into effect, Brazil, like other developing countries, has become more assertive in multilateral negotiations and begun to argue that the present international system of intellectual property should be better adapted to its needs and interests. In doing so, the country has emphasized that intellec...

Intellectual property (“IP”) is often credited with providing an incentive for inventors to develop their creativity. Through IP protection, inventors can recoup their investment and make a profit. That idea, which has inspired legislators worldwide, is currently challenged in the European case law on competition. In the last twenty years, five cases have limited, in the name of competition, th...

Much of the value of firms in the digital economy is in the intellectual capital of their assets. Intellectual property rights (IPRs) provide tools to extract value from intellectual capital. Not surprisingly, we are seeing firms trying to secure more and more rights in their intellectual property. It has become common e.g. to file patents for firm’s business method. On the other hand, there is...

Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the well-known concept of brain drain, it also causes a...

Part one of this paper considers the question of property rights in general and asks how such rights can be justified, contrasting Consequentialist with other approaches and concludes that it is impossible to avoid a broadly Consequentialist approach. Part two considers the question of intellectual property (IP) and asks how property rights justifications apply to it. The basic economics if IP ...

this paper aims to study the relationship between intellectual property and patent and economic growth in islamic countries for the period of 1990 – 2010. this theoretical basis of the model is constructed on economic growth models in 1990s. the technique which we employed is the index of patents to measure the impact on economic growth. to analysis this relationship we use “pedroni cointegrati...

Introduction: This article is to examine the arrangement of Inventory Communal Intellectual Property (ICP) in perspective Culture Advancement or IPR and locate ideal future concept regarding (ICP).Purposes Research: The purpose this research analyze inventory Cultural Advancement.Methods uses normative legal with statutory approach conceptual approach.Results In was found that Law more sustaina...