Dissertations / Theses: 'Intellectual property rights'

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Schroeder, Jeffrey S. "Right grantors and right seekers : a theory for understanding the comparative development of intellectual property rights /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3004002.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 260-272). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Myers, Robert A. "Intellectual Property Rights in Japan." MIT Japan Program, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/7542.

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Norain, Ismail. "Intellectual property rights for nanotechnology." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1627.

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The purpose of this study is to examine intellectual property (IP) protection for nanotechnology, comparing the laws of Malaysia with those of the United Kingdom (as a member of the European Union and European Patent Convention). As well as analysing current primary and secondary legal sources, a small number of discrete interviews were conducted with key nanotechnology scientists in Malaysia and the United Kingdom to ascertain the nature and development of nanotechnology in the jurisdictions under study and to explore the experts’ perceptions of IP laws, including the pattern of protection that might be expected as the technology matures. This study argues that current intellectual property rights are appropriate to govern nanotechnology creations, so that there is no need to devise a new form of IP right for nanotechnology. The emphasis in the IP literature to date has been on patent law, but this study argues that the law of breach of confidence is also very significant, despite difficulties presented by the technology. Furthermore, from qualitative empirical and doctrinal evidence, other forms of IP protection may be applicable to some extent. This study also investigates the current term protection of different forms of IP which may be relevant to nanotechnology, including the possible application of Supplementary Protection Certificates to allow for the time taken by nanotechnology products to enter the market. Finally, some recommendations are made for both Malaysia and the United Kingdom to protect nanotechnology appropriately.

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Шуст, Наталія Борисівна. "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN POLAND." Thesis, НАУ, 2017. http://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/25315.

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BENNATO, ANNA RITA. "Essays on intellectual property rights." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2108/207738.

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Secondo la visione Schumpeteriana, le innovazioni sono possibili grazie agli investimenti degli agenti privati, i quali in assenza di una protezione brevettuale che li riconosca come gli esclusivi utilizzatori della propria innovazione, sarebbero spinti ad effettuare investimenti subottimali. Al tempo stesso, la presenza di un’istituzione che garantisca per un ben preciso arco di tempo un diritto esclusivo nell’uso della propria innovazione ha degli importanti effetti in termini di welfare, comportando un’inevitabile deadweight loss ed una conseguente inefficiente duplicazione dei costi in ricerca e sviluppo. Nello scenario internazionale la tutela della proprietà intellettuale è stata nell’ultimo ventennio oggetto di diversi dibattiti. In particolare, la firma dell’accordo TRIPs ( Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Right), mediate il quale si è deciso di estendere il diritto brevettuale per un periodo non inferiore a venti anni verso tutte le opere dell’ingegno, ha sollevato numerosi dubbi circa la validità di tale protezione. Con l’obiettivo di studiare le implicazioni economiche derivanti dall’introduzione della proprietà intellettuale, cosi come disciplinata nell’accordo TRIPs, il presente lavoro è stato sviluppato seguendo tre diversi approcci. Il primo capitolo presenta un modello teorico di economia internazionale che affronta l’analisi della determinazione della ottima patent policy in presenza della salute pubblica. Nel secondo capitolo, attraverso una verifica empirica, studiamo l’impatto della nuova politica brevettuale sul trasferimento di tecnologie tra paesi industrializzati e paesi in via di sviluppo, all’interno del settore farmaceutico. Infine, nel terzo capitolo mediante un gioco dinamico tra impresa innovatrice e governo straniero, sviluppiamo un’analisi di welfare che tiene conto delle decisioni di investimento in ricerca e sviluppo quando deroghe al principio della proprietà intellettuale sono riconosciute a livello internazionale.
Historically, the issue of intellectual property rights is considered a contentious one because, if the primary reason to ensure a strong patent protection is to provide enough incentives for the private agents to invest their resources in new technologies, on the other hand, such legal protection leads to an increase in the deadweight loss and an inefficient duplication of R&D costs (Scotchmer, 2004). Furthermore, the economic literature that describes the relationship between science and innovation explains that profit-seeking agents without a well defined intellectual property right regime tend to invest less than optimally (Grossman and Helpman, 1991; Helpman, 1993). Thus, in the absence of a legal system that identifies the creator as the exclusive owner of her innovation, anyone is able to reproduce it without extra costs, as innovation exhibits all the peculiarities of a public good. In the last two decades, this matter has become a disputed subject due, in particular, to the new rules introduced by Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement (TRIPs). By uniforming the intellectual property right (IPR) regime at a global level, the TRIPs agreement calls for all WTO members to enforce a minimum standard of protection, without distinguishing the features of each category of goods. These new international rules have risen several political debates, especially for its implications for the pharmaceutical sector and for the social welfare. The international harmonization of the patent system does not yield unequivocal results, since the welfare implications ensuing from a strict enforcement of IPRs are complex. The simple fact that trade flows rise or fall in response of an enforcement of the law of IPRs is not sufficient for drawing conclusions regarding economic welfare. Both static and dynamic effects need to be considered (Deardorff, 1992; Helpman, 1993). With the aim to investigate the economic impact of the international law on IPRs, we employed three different approaches. The first chapter presents a theoretical model of international trade policy, which deals with the optimal patent policy in the presence of a health externality. In the second chapter we adopt a gravity framework to examine empirically the impact of the new IPRs on bilateral flows of knowledge within the pharmaceutical domain. Finally, the third chapter develops a dynamic game between a single innovative firm and a foreign government to provide a welfare analysis that accounts for investment decision in R&D under the regime of international exhaustion.

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Bhattacharya, Raja. "Intellectual property rights in outer space." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=78203.

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Private entities, investing billions of dollars, as a matter of reasonable commercial corporate expectations, want to be protected against undue use, exploitation and copying of their technology and inventions which they have put into their space ventures (often termed as 'theft') by any third party. States, to secure an environment friendly to such generation, use and transfer of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in outer space, have initiated applying and/or extending their national IP laws into outer space either in form of a statute or a multilateral agreement. This may have both commercial and political significance.
This thesis deals with IP issues in international perspective (with reference, however, to some leading national IP legislation when and where it is necessary) with special reference to the contemporary legal regime governing outer space. While emphasizing the existing legal regime relating to IPRs in outer space, it explores the possibility of commercial exploitation of IPRs made in space and on ground through the existing international trade system. The increasing importance of cooperation between the World Intellectual Property Organization and World Trade Organization in this regard is also examined, against the back drop of space activities and the outer space legal regime relating to IPRs. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Hackett, Petal Jean. "Essays on intellectual property rights policy." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7934.

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This dissertation will take a theoretical approach to analyzing certain challenges in the design of intellectual property rights (`IPR') policy. The first essay looks the advisability of introducing IPR into a market which is currently only very lightly protected - the US fashion industry. The proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act is intended to introduce EU standards into the US. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework, I analyze the effects of protection on investment in innovative designs by high-quality (`designer') and lower-quality (`mass-market') firms when the mass-marketer may opt to imitate, consumers prefer trendsetting designs and firms compete in prices. I show that design protection, by transforming mass-marketers from imitators to innovators, may reduce both designer pro ts and welfare. The model provides possible explanations for the dearth of EU case law and the increase in designer/mass-marketer collaborations. The second essay contributes to the literature on patent design and fee shifting, contrasting the effects of the American (or `each party pays') rule and English (or `losing party pays') rule of legal cost allocation on optimal patent breadth when innovation is sequential and firms are differentiated duopolists. I show that if litigation spending is endogenous, the American rule may induce broader patents and a higher probability of infringement than the English rule if R&D costs are sufficiently low. If, however, R&D costs are moderate, the ranking is reversed and it is the English rule that leads to broader patents. Neither rule supports lower patent breadth than the other over the entire parameter space. As such, any attempts to reform the US patent system by narrowing patents must carefully weigh the impact on firms' legal spending decisions if policymakers do not wish to adversely affect investment incentives. The third and final essay analyzes the effects of corporate structure on licensing behaviour. Policymakers and legal scholars are concerned about the potential for an Anticommons, an underuse of early stage research tools to produce complex final products, typically arising from either blocking or stacking. I use a simple, one-period differentiated duopoly model to show that if patentees have flexibility in corporate structure, Anticommons problems are greatly reduced. The model suggests that if the patentee owns the single (or single set) of essential IPR and goods are of symmetric quality, Anticommons issues may be entirely eliminated, as the patentee will always license, simply shifting its corporate structure depending on the identity of the downstream competitor. If the rival produces a more valuable good, Anticommons problems are reduced. Further, if the patentee holds 1 of 2 essential patents, the ability to shift its corporate structure may reduce total licensing costs to rival firms. However the analysis offers a cautionary note: while spin-offs by the patentee help to sustain downstream competition, they may restrict market output, and therefore welfare. Thus the inefficiency in the patent system may be in the opposite direction than is currently thought - there may be too much technology transfer, rather than too little.

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Berger, Stefan. "Regulation of intellectual property rights and trade." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/7591.

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This thesis consists of three essays on the regulation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and trade in open economies. The rst chapter investigates the di erences in Intellectual Property Rights between countries. The analysis of a cross-country panel reveals that the protection of IPRs is higher in countries that are (i) richer, (ii) more productive in R&D and (iii) more open to trade. It is then shown that the rst two facts can be explained in a model where innovations are a global public good and where demand for innovations is non-homothetic in income. The second chapter addresses the third observation. If trade is driven by large di erences in productivities across countries and sectors then having strong IPR protection can become more bene cial for the individual country, since a part of the associated costs are passed onto the trading partners. The third chapter aims to explain why and when countries link agreements on trade with agreements that regulate the provision of global public goods. It shows that a linkage is particularly attractive if countries are di erent in size.

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Trerise, Jonathan. "A justified system of intellectual property rights." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4788.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on December 14, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Adegoke, Sope. "Intellectual Property Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/289.

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Globalization of the world economy has made knowledge a critical element of effectiveness in the world economy. Current economic and trade conditions change rapidly and require constant improvement to ensure economic development. These conditions stimulate innovation and improvements in technology, designs, and other tangible and intangible assets. Most Sub-Saharan African countries have not exploited the benefits that intellectual property rights offer to its users, despite considerable improvements to existing knowledge and options for protecting knowledge. Strong intellectual property laws are important for effective incentives to invent continuously. It is important to provide some form of compensation and guarantee that their innovation is credited to them. This is achieved through the establishment of intellectual property rights. Intellectual property rights have far-reaching effects on several sectors of the economy, such as trade, manufacturing, and other industries. Intellectual property rights policies are therefore, important for economic development.

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Ang, Steven. "The moral dimensions of intellectual property rights." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/9008.

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The Moral Dimensions of Intellectual Property Rights explores the various aspects of IPRs in which moral evaluation and claims play a role. According to R M Hare, moral concepts and reasoning are characterized by the universalization of prescriptions. Universalization links the various dimensions in a way that rationally forces us to revise the moral basis of the various claims we make for, about and of IPRs, and ultimately provides grounds for their reform. The method of reflective equilibrium is focused in the first place on Hare’s meta- ethics, to derive a reformulation which is herein called fundamental prescriptivism. This requires a foundational set of moral principles to work. Our expectation that moral principles and values must serve to guide us, and resolve conflict between us, with objective rational force, provides the basis for adopting such a set of fundamental prescriptions. These sum up in the equal right to freedom and well- being as the ultimate basis for moral evaluation of our institutions. An implication of this right is that property in IPR systems must be balanced with participation rights (moral and legal) of the public to a public domain which allows individuals to have access to, and use, objects of intellectual property. When, in seeking reflective equilibrium, this is applied to the various aspects of IPRs, the result is an exploration of the inter-connectedness of following: justification of IPRs based on this equal right to freedom and well-being; explanation of the function of, and justification for, the presence of moral concepts and terms in national and international IPR rules; the commitments implied by use of these moral ideas for our obligations in respect of the way we enjoy, exploit and enforce our IPRs, and, ultimately, our duty to reform of IPRs in ways that respects the participation rights implied by this principle.

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Yu, Yudong. "Intellectual property rights and the game industry." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2017. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/intellectual-property-rights-and-the-game-industry(029fbc50-7a2c-4434-96ec-5abfc42cd341).html.

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This thesis analyses how intellectual property (IP) laws are used in the home console game industry and in particular how these laws are used to capture the returns on investment, which may indirectly provide a stimulus to innovation. The relationshipis evaluated in three selected markets: The United States (US), the European Union (EU) and People's Republic of China (PRC). The first two of these are selected as representative of developed markets whilst the latter as an instance of an emerging market. This thesis analyses and illustrates ways in which three major types of intellectual property rights - patents, copyright and trademarks - operate in this sector of industry. This thesis evaluates this relationship via a unique approach, adopting both a legal and economic analysis. The thesis starts with a detailed market analysis of this industry to identify key factors that affect individual firms' abilities to capture returns on investment. This is followed by section II (comprising Chapters II to IV) which goes on to examine the effects of each type of IPR on these factors in the developed markets of the US and Europe. The analysis in section III shifts the focus from these developed markets to the emerging market in the PRC. It identifies the unique attributes and problems of the Chinese market and demonstrates how contemporary local IP laws can be used to tackle these problems. It is the view of this thesis that IP laws theoretically can be used to maximise a firm's return on investment while not distorting competition; hence, the thesis suggests that IPRs may indirectly create incentives to innovate.

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Nie, Jianqiang. "The enforcement of intellectual property rights in China /." London : Cameron May, 2006. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00189727.pdf.

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Birmingham, Robert B. "Intellectual property rights in software acquired by DoD." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1995. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA305992.

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Breimelyte, Jurate. "Open Biobanks. Reframing intellectual property rights in biobanking." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/664270.

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Esta tesis se enfrentó al reto de resolver la cuestión sobre si los derechos de propiedad intelectual creados por los biobancos pueden gestionarse más abiertamente para garantizar la distribución equitativa del conocimiento y las mejoras de la investigación genética. Se propone fomentar que los biobancos usen licencias más abiertas en sus obras protegidas por derechos de autor, bases de datos e inventos patentados. Para facilitar la transferencia de conocimiento entre biobancos y garantizar que la investigación genética mejore, se realiza una reflexión sobre la aplicación de licencias abiertas. La tesis describe el modelo de intercambio colectivo y apoya la posibilidad de usar derechos de propiedad intelectual de forma no restrictiva. La tesis también propone el uso del consentimiento informado amplio en las actividades de los biobancos. Un consentimiento informado amplio garantizaría el equilibrio adecuado entre los derechos individuales y el derecho de los biobancos de compartir la información recogida, especialmente, porque existen incentivos para tratar la genética humana como patrimonio común. El consentimiento abierto puede usarse en las actividades del biobanco para garantizar que los tejidos no permanecen sin uso. Este tipo de consentimiento puede asegurar el máximo valor de los tejidos biológicos recogidos. Si las muestras recogidas no están restringidas a un solo uso o a una sola investigación, podemos esperar que otros estudios lleven a cabo investigaciones sobre las mismas muestras y se presente información científica más amplia y relevante.
This thesis faced the challenge of answering the question if intellectual property rights that are created by the biobanks can be managed more openly to ensure the equitable distribution of knowledge and improvements of the genetic research. The proposal is made to encourage the biobanks to use more broadly open licenses in their copyrighted works, databases and patented inventions. To ease the transfer of knowledge between biobanks and ensure that the genetic research is improving, the reflection to apply open licenses is made. The thesis describes the open sharing model and supports the possibilities to use IP rights in a non-restricting way. The thesis also proposes to use broad informed consent in the biobanks’ activities. Broad informed consent would ensure the right balance between individual rights and biobanks’ need to share collected information, especially, because there are incentives to treat human genetics as a common good. Open consent can be used in the biobank’s activities to ensure that the tissues are not left unutilised. Such form of consent can assure the maximum value of the collected biological tissues. If collected samples are not restricted to the one-time or one-research use, we can expect that other studies perform research on the same samples and the broader scientific information is presented.

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Tomkowicz, Robert Jacek. "Crossing the Boundaries: Overlaps of Intellectual Property Rights." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/20149.

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Overlaps of intellectual property rights are a phenomenon that is not yet fully understood and analyzed; yet it is an increasingly important issue due to development of new hybrid technologies that defy the established structure of the system. Despite the potential adverse effects this phenomenon can have on the integrity of the system, the problem of overlaps has been neglected in judicial and scholarly analyses. This research presents the thesis that all uses of intellectual property rights should be viewed in light of their purposes. In other words, the phenomenon of overlapping intellectual property rights is not a problem per se; instead, it is the use of the rights for incompatible purposes that may be considered objectionable. The analyses use the concept of balance of rights as the measuring rod for assessment of the consequences resulting from use of the overlapping rights. Thus, the dissertation investigates how use of intellectual property rights associated with one segment of the system can affect carefully crafted balance of rights of various stakeholders in an overlapping segment and whether effectiveness of this segment to advance its purposes will be impeded by such use. The analyses are also done with the aim to formulate a uniform answer to identified and potentially objectionable uses of overlapping rights in an attempt to provide the judiciary and law practitioners with analytical framework for resolving disputes involving overlaps in the intellectual property system. An adequate response to the challenge posed by improper use of overlapping intellectual property rights can be found in a properly construed doctrine of misuse of intellectual property rights. Because overlaps in the intellectual property system are a phenomenon that probably cannot be legislated in practical terms, this dissertation advocates adoption of a judicially created doctrine of misuse based on purposive analysis of intellectual property rights.

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Zhuang, Yuan. "Essays on international outsourcing and intellectual property rights." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3239441.

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Harison, Elad. "Software intellectual property rights : economics and policy analysis /." Maastricht : UPM, Universitaire Pers Maastricht, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/511861311.pdf.

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Dutfield, Graham. "The international biotrade, conservation and intellectual property rights." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365657.

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Kenneally, Michael Edward. "Intellectual Property Rights and Institutions: A Pluralist Account." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11509.

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Debates over intellectual property's justifications tend to treat natural rights and utilitarian accounts as competitors, but they should be seen as complements instead. Lockean and Kantian theories of intellectual property highlight the strong interests that intellectual property creators have in profiting from and exercising some degree of control over their work, but neither theory gives sufficient justification for the full assortment of rights that intellectual property owners have under current law. Utilitarian accounts provide an essential supplement to these natural rights theories by focusing on society's interests in the production of useful information and creative expression, but that does not mean intellectual property law should single-mindedly strive only to maximize social welfare. Developing both natural rights-based and utilitarian justifications, this dissertation advances a pluralist account of intellectual property that understands different features of copyright, patent, and trademark law to be serving different normative interests.
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Torán, Luis. "Intellectual Property Rights, Open Innovation, and Firm's Environment." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17195.

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ABSTRACT Purpose - This thesis analyses, firstly, how the environment affects the use of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in firms. Secondly, the connections between IPRs and firm's openness with regards to partner, phase, and content variety; and lastly, how firm's environment modifies IPRS-firm's openness relationship. Methodology - Based on a survey for R&D managers or similar job positions in 415 Swedish, Finish and Italian manufacturing firms, after obtaining the raw data, the results will be evaluated and discussed in reference to the theoretical framework. Results - The paper displays the correlation between formal IP mechanisms and firm's environment. In this way, the study exposes the common use of this kind of protection, on one hand, to deal with rising development technology costs and shortening product life cycles, and, on the other hand, in a technological environment. In addition, the work exhibits the value of IPRs in early phases and commercialization in the innovation process, regarding the need to acquire knowledge in creation, and safeguard R&D to take profit from it. Finally, the paper establishes a linear correlation that shows as higher environmental dynamism that leads to lower use of IPRs under OI regime. Limitations - This thesis is focused on formal IP protection mechanisms, firm's environment, and firm's openness, without pay attention to informal IP protection ways, which for sure are linked. This analysis is, however a subject for further research. Keywords: Intellectual property Rights, Firm's openness, Firm's environment, Survey.

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Jakobsson, Amanda. "Essays on international trade and intellectual property rights." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2107.

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Crowther, Sarah Maureen. "Patenting genes : intellectual property rights in human genomics." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313966.

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Ituarte-Lima, C. B. "Negotiating intellectual property rights in the Upper Amazon." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1302064/.

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This thesis examines Amazonian people’s negotiation of bio-cultural rights, and explores the nexus between people in the field and stakeholders at different national and international levels. It draws primarily on one year of fieldwork conducted in the Upper Amazon; I also build on my experience as a lawyer working on environmental and people’s rights in Mexico. Anthropological and legal approaches to property rights and biotechnology, as well as local and global systems of power and political life inform the analysis. Amazonian people’s positions regarding IPR and bioprospecting are dynamic rather than fixed. They respond more to historical processes including alliances and fragmentation between groups than to definite ideological positions such as do IPR advocates or sceptics. Distinct groups co-exist with different levels of acceptance. Amazonian leaders tend to regard “community” as an external imposition with a colonial origin, in contrast to pueblo (people) considered a more legitimate term. Yet, in practical terms, community remains a relevant social unit appropriated by people in the rainforest. Another finding is the central role that indigenous NGOs based in urban areas play as gatekeepers of Amazonian bio-cultural resources. This thesis challenges certain academic and popular assumptions concerning indigenous people’s IPR. It reveals that the tensions between differentiated forms of intellectual property lie relatively less in the incommensurability between individual (Western) and collective (indigenous) and more in the types of individual and collectives (e.g. corporation) that can become IPR holders. Critical events at the mesolevel trigger the reinterpretation of old categories, and the emergence of sui generis IPR. Conflictive situations can be sources of socio-legal innovation eliciting new ways of thinking about the negotiation of IPR between local, national and international levels.

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Chou, Teyu. "Essays on intellectual property rights and product differentiation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/40318.

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Kiema, Ilkka. "Essays on the economics of intellectual property rights /." [Helsinki] : University of Helsinki, 2008. https://oa.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/42546/essayson.pdf?sequence=1.

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Bernal, Uribe Juan Felipe. "Innovation, intellectual property rights and international knowledge diffusion." Thesis, Toulouse 1, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012TOU10029/document.

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Cette thèse étudie l’effet des Droits de Propriété Intellectuelle (DPI) sur l’économie. Elle se sert d’un cadre commun (i.e. un modèle de croissance endogène avec différentiation horizontale) pour modéliser les DPI, identifier les coûts et bienfaits associés à leur mise en œuvre, suggérer un niveau de protection optimal en tenant compte des différences dans la composition des dotations de travail et, finalement, se concentrer sur les implications internationales des politiques tendant à l’unification des systèmes de DPI dans le monde.Le premier chapitre considère une économie fermée. Nous montrons qu’il n’est pas nécessaire que le degré de DPI qui maximise l’utilité pour les travailleurs qualifiés coïncide avec celui des non qualifiés. L’équilibre dans cette économie dépend de sa taille et de la composition du facteur travail. Lorsque le nombre de travailleurs qualifiés est faible par rapport au nombre des travailleurs non qualifiés, une protection totale des DPI bénéficie au travail qualifié en nuisant au travail non qualifié. Ce dernier aurait une utilité supérieure en présence d’une protection plus faible des DPI. Lorsque la taille des deux groupes est similaire, il n’y a plus de conflit d’intérêts : Les deux types de travailleurs préfèrent un régime de DPI qui augmente avec la taille de la population totale.Le deuxième chapitre étend le contenu du premier en incorporant une deuxième économie qui est à la fois plus peuplée et technologiquement supérieure. Le secteur de Recherche et Développement (R&D) domestique bénéficie des connaissances en provenance de l’étranger. Le modèle prédit la convergence du taux de croissance domestique vers le taux de croissance du leader technologique. L’effet positif des DPI est donné par la détermination de « l’écart technologique » entre les deux régions. La protection totale des DPI maximise l’utilité du travail qualifié et, sous certaines configuration des paramètres, du travail non qualifié.Le troisième chapitre introduit le commerce international. Nous considérons deux économies où les travailleurs qualifiés sont hétérogènes en termes de productivité individuelle dans le secteur R&D. Le commerce international requiert le paiement d’un coût fixe pour chaque variété de bien intermédiaire. Il y a deux régions dans le monde : le « Nord » avec une protection totale des DPI, et le « Sud » avec une protection faible. Tout travailleur qualifié dans le secteur R&D fait le choix entre devenir innovateur ou imitateur. Cette modélisation est capable de recréer la domination du Nord dans l’activité d’innovation mondiale, et du Sud dans l’imitation. Un renforcement des DPI dans le Sud se traduit par une redistribution de travailleurs qualifiés hors de l’activité imitative et vers l’innovation. Un nombre plus faible d’imitateurs augmente l’intérêt d’exporter vers le Sud pour les firmes du Nord, ce qui favorise le commerce international
This thesis studies the effects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on the economy. It makes use of a common framework (i.e. an endogenous growth model with horizontal differentiation) to model IPRs, identify the benefits and the costs associated with their implementation, suggest welfare maximizing levels of IPRs in economies with different compositions of the labor force and, finally, focus on the trade aspects of international policies tending to unify IPRs systems in the world.The first chapter considers a closed economy. We find that the utility maximizing degree of IPRs may or not be the same for skilled and unskilled workers. The equilibrium of the economy depends on its size and composition of the labor force. When skilled workers are scarce relative to unskilled workers, complete enforcement of IPRs benefits skilled workers and harm unskilled workers, which prefer a weaker regime. If the two labor endowments are close enough there is no longer a conflict of interests between the two groups. Both prefer a regime of IPRs that increases with the population size.The second chapter extends the first one to incorporate an additional economy which is larger and technologically more advanced. The R&D sector of the small economy benefits from the knowledge developed abroad. The model predicts convergence in the rate of growth to the one of the technological leader. The positive effect of IPRs comes from the determination of the "technological gap" between the two regions. Complete enforcement of IPRs maximizes utility for skilled labor and, under some parameter configurations, also for unskilled labor.The third chapter allows for international trade. We consider two economies where skilled labor is heterogeneous in productivity within the R&D sector. Trade requires the payment of a fixed cost per variety. There are two regions in the world: the South has weaker IPRs and a less skilled labor than the North. Skilled workers in the R&D sector choose between becoming innovators or imitators. This setup recreates the observable patterns of dominance of the North in innovation, and the South in imitation. Stronger IPRs in the South translate into a reallocation of skilled labor out of imitation and into innovation. Less imitators increase the value of exporting to that region for foreign exporters leading to an increase in world trade

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Lau, Pun-wai Christy. "A review on the effectiveness of the policy on protecting intellectual property rights in HKSAR." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36439459.

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Samartzi, Vasiliki. "Digital rights management and the rights of end-users." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8642.

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Digital Rights Management systems (DRM) are frequently used by rightsholders in order to protect their works from the, very high indeed, possibility to be copied, altered or distributed without authorisation by users who take advantage of available state-of-the-art copying techniques. Because DRM are legally protected by anti-circumvention legislation both in the United States and in Europe, a debate goes on more than a decade now regarding their impact to the notion of “balance” among copyright stakeholders that traditionally underpinned copyright law. In this context, this study examines, in turn, the philosophical underpinnings of analogue and digital copyright law focusing of copyright exceptions, the development of a notion of a minimum of lawful personal use for the digital environment based on existing copyright exceptions and users’ expectations of personal use, and the impact of the use of DRM and of the introduction of anti-circumvention legislation to this notion. While the European Information Society Directive 2001/29/EC (EUCD) is the main legal instrument analysed and criticised, the role of other Directives is also examined to the extent they address the relationship between lawful personal use and anticircumvention legislation. Legal developments in the United States could not have been absent from this discussion since anti-circumvention legislation was introduced there much earlier than the EUCD and important case-law and legal commentaries have developed since. Following the identification of problems regarding the operation of a minimum of lawful personal use in digital settings, the proposal to introduce a right to engage in self-help circumvention afforded to users of DRM-protected works for Europe is put-forward. Such a right would not undermine rightsholders incentives to offer works online and develop new business models but would acknowledge the users’ interest to interact and tinker with digital works taking full advantage of the new possibilities offered by digitisation.

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Lo, Shih-tse. "Strengthening intellectual property rights evidence from developing countries' patent reforms /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=953999891&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Nilsson, Ola. "Rights to Software and Databases : From a Swedish Consulting Perspective." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Commercial Law, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-10298.

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In recent times companies have been forced to become more and more digitalized in order to spread company information and facilitate communication with clients, con-sumers and their own employees. The knowledge to integrate software and launch the company into the digital world cannot always be found within the company itself. Therefore, companies often resort to employing consulting companies to enable this for them. Because of copyright, the software created does not solely belong to the employing company – the intellectual property rights automatically stay with the con-sulting company that made it.

When the consulting company omits details concerning intellectual property rights in the employment contract, the standard rules in the Swedish Copyright Act and the international directives kick in and give the consulting company the full rights to the programmes that it has created – with a few exceptions. The employing company may only alter the software in order to ensure that it is fully compatible with the al-ready existing programmes it utilises and the operating system it uses. Even reverse engineering is permitted as long as the information gathered is only used for ensuring the compatibility.

Information in databases is protected as it is creatively arranged in systematic or me-thodical way by the one that has made a substantial investment in obtaining, verifying or presenting the information. The substantial investment depends on the one that has taken the risk of investing in the particular database. As databases are rarely made by consulting companies on behalf of a client, and the rules are sufficiently clear as to whom the ownership of the database is, there are few questions concerning data-bases. Because of this, the assumption would be that the current legislation is work-ing properly.

One of the more troubling issues in regards to copyright is that even though reverse engineering is illegal, proving infringement comes down to evidence and what parts that are quantitatively or qualitatively significant in the original programme. Cur-rently, there is no registry of copyrighted works in Sweden and so there is not telling who made the programme first if the work happens to spread. The creators of soft-ware have expressed concern and allegedly lobbied for a new directive giving more protection to the original creators. The culmination of the lobby work was the Soft-ware Patent Directive, which proposed that software should be seen as an invention and therefore eligible for patenting. However, there were many reasons as to why software should not be patented, most notably increased cost and the years of wait-ing for the patent grant, and the directive was rejected. Still, the concerns persisted and no greater protection has been given to the creators of software.

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Saumtally, Anissa. "Economic catching-up, Technological progress and Intellectual property rights." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017BORD0829/document.

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L’objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une réponse à la question: Est-ce que les politiques de renforcement des droits de propriété intellectuelle telles que les TRIPS peuvent être bénéfiques aux pays en développement et leurs perspectives de rattrapage économique.?Pour répondre à cette question, on s’intéresse à la dynamique technologique sous-jacente au processus de rattrapage économique. Le premier chapitre propose une revisite empirique et analytique du modele de “catching-up and falling behind” de Verspagen (1991) qui se focalise sur l’étude du rôle des dynamiques d’innovation et d’imitation dans le processus de rattrapage économique. On trouve que même si la dynamique d’innovation est importante pour le rattrapage, la dynamique d’imitation se révèle nécessaire pour s’assurer que les pays en développement puissent développer leurs capacités qui leur permettront de prospérer. L’efficacité de la dynamique d’imitation est conditionnée par les caractéristiques du pays qui détermine sa capacité d’apprentissage (“Learning Capability”).Le deuxième chapitre se concentre sur la compréhension du fonctionnement des transferts de technologie entre les pays développés et les pays en développement. On s’intéresse aux mécanismes derrières les deux canaux de transferts principaux, le commerce international et les IDE, qui sont les canaux les plus étudiés dans la littérature. On déduit de ce chapitre la richesse et la complexité de ces mécanismes.Dans le troisième chapitre, on développe un modèle à base d’agents (ABM) pour représenter ces interactions Nord-Sud et leur complexité, avec une approche évolutionniste. Le modèle de base permet en particulier l’étude du mécanisme de transfert par la mobilité (locale) des travailleurs, un canal très peu étudié dans la littérature. Ceci nous permet d’étudier l’impact que les IDE peuvent avoir sur le développement et le rattrapage. On trouve que si les IDE des pays développés vers les pays en développement peuvent, sous certaines conditions, encourager les transferts de technologie et permettre ainsi le rattrapage, il y a tout de même des effets négatifs potentiels sur les industries locales, en particulier dans les pays les plus en retard.Le dernier chapitre propose une extension du modèle qui introduit les brevets et nous permet ainsi de répondre à la question principale. On observe que si les brevets permettent d’inciter les firmes du Nord à diffuser leur technologie et facilité le rattrapage, ces firmes demanderaient un e parfaite application des lois sur la propriété intellectuelle, ce qui serait trop sévère sur les firmes locales car cela bloquerait les imitations et surtout entraverait les efforts d’innovation de ces firmes, tout en procurant un bénéfice limité pour les firmes du Nord
The objective of this thesis is to propose an answer to the question: Can intellectual property rights policies such as TRIPS be beneficial for developing countries and their catching-up process?To answer this question, we first look at the technological dynamics behind the catching-up process. The first chapter thus provides an empirical and analytical update on the catching-up and falling behind model by Verspagen (1991), which focuses on studying the role of the innovation and imitation dynamics in the catching up process. Mainly, we find that while the innovation dynamic is important for the catching-up process, the imitation dynamic is necessary to ensure that countries build solid capabilities that will enable them to prosper. The efficiency of the imitation dynamics is dependent on policy factors that make up the learning capability of firms and ensure firms succeed assimilating knowledge.The second chapter focuses on understanding the way those technological transfers from developed to developing countries can occur, we focus on studying the mechanisms behind two main channels, that is international trade and FDIs, which represent the main form of North-South interactions studied in the literature. From this chapter we conclude that there is a rich diversity of complex mechanisms.In the third chapter, we thus build an agent-based model (ABM) to represent those North-South interactions and their complexities, with an evolutionary economics approach. The model allows us to study a particular mechanism: transfers through the local labour mobility, a channel seldom discussed in the literature. This allows us to study the impact FDI may have on development and catching-up outcomes. We find that while FDI from developed countries can, under the right conditions, encourage technological transfers and thus catching up, there are potential negative effects on local industries, in particular in countries largely behind.The final chapter proposes an extension of the model that introduces patents, in order to answer the main question. We find that while patents help motivate northern firms to disclose their technology and thus facilitate development, those firms would require a perfect level of enforcement that will be too harsh on local firms, block imitations and also severely hinder the southern firms’ innovative efforts, while generating limited gains for northern firms

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Bouvet, Isabelle. "Certain aspects of intellectual property rights in outer space." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq64265.pdf.

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Briggs, Kristie N. Field Alfred J. "Three essays on intellectual property rights in developing countries." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1573.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Economics." Discipline: Economics; Department/School: Economics.

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Davis, Tara M. "International intellectual property rights : effectiveness of incentives for enforcement." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1390656.

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In this technological age the distribution of information happens faster and easier than ever before. This ease of transfer of information brings challenges for international intellectual property rights protection. It addresses reasons governments work to increase enforcement and reasons governments do not comply with enforcement protocols. It assesses the pressure international agreements and incentives exert on governments to produce compliance. This paper evaluates 76 countries in three non-consecutive years on their level of enforcement. It includes a discussion of contributing factors to government choice in interaction and enforcement. The question of enforcement incentives is addressed both across time and across countries.
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Delicostopoulou, A. "Intellectual property rights as a barrier to world trade." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286577.

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Niwa, Sumiko. "Essays on Intellectual Property Rights Protection and Economic Growth." Kyoto University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/232210.

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Tassano, Velaochaga Hebert Eduardo. "The convergence between competition law and intellectual property rights." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116244.

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Indecopi has within its functions the defense of free competition and the protection of intellectual property. This institutional design has the advantage of being able to see more clearly what are the points of convergence between the two subject-matter, harmonize them and achieve the goals they have in common. Within this convergence, there are sensitive issues as the granting of compulsory licenses. In this work, we highlight that compulsory licenses are exceptional measures and, to consider its granting, the State must have a procedure that provides confidence and predictability to citizens and clear definitions of what is meant by public interest, emergency and national security. Finally, it is proposed that the granting of compulsory licenses should be justified by a cost benefit analysis showing that is the best choice.
El Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (IndecopI) tiene entre sus funciones tanto la defensa de la libre competencia como la protección de la propiedad intelectual. Este diseño institucional tiene la ventaja de permitir apreciar con mayor claridad cuáles son los puntos de convergencia entre ambas materias, armonizarlos y conseguir los objetivos que tienen en común. Dentro de esta convergencia, existen temas sensibles, como el otorgamiento de licencias obligatorias, por lo que en el presente trabajo se destaca su carácter de medida excepcional y se plantea que, para considerar su otorgamiento, el Estado debe contar con un procedimiento que brinde confianza y predictibilidad a la ciudadanía y con definiciones claras sobre qué debemos entender por interés público, emergencia y seguridad nacional. Finalmente, se propone que su otorgamiento tenga justificación en un análisis costo beneficio que arroje como resultado que, en efecto, era la opción más adecuada.

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Shank, Cara Elizabeth Holland Dorothy C. "Dis-owning knowledge anarchist intervention in intellectual property rights /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2339.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.
Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Anthropology." Discipline: Anthropology; Department/School: Anthropology.

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FALCONE, STEFANO. "Essays on the political economy of intellectual property rights." Doctoral thesis, Università di Siena, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11365/1062007.

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The doctoral dissertation is composed of three chapters, each one containing an essay on the political economy of intellectual property rights. Although this inquiry deals with patent protection, the main ideas can be applied to all intellectual property rights, excluding trademarks. The objective of the doctoral dissertation is not to study why we should have patent protection but rather why we do have patent protection.

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Bortoluzzi, Eleonora <1994&gt. "Intellectual property rights on software: Patentability of computer programs." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/15956.

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My final thesis will focus on the topic of patentability of computer programs in all his aspects, with a comparative analysis between Europe and the USA. The first part will focus on the main characteristics of copyright protection and patent protection, providing some important features of both intellectual property rights. A brief description of software will follow, in order to introduce the topic and its history. The work develops with the analysis of the double protection of software, i.e. copyright and patent, by providing specific references to the European and U.S. law, along with case law examples. In this way, the development of software protection through the years will be explained in detail. The last part will focus on the current situation in Europe and in the USA to have a deeper and overall view of the issue, also providing some personal opinions and conclusions.

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Kojdheli, Ornela <1993&gt. "The management of intellectual property rights within network contracts." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16037.

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The network contract is one of the major legal tools through which companies can rule the cooperation among different undertakings within a network. It allows them not only to share resources and capailities but also to have access to both tangible and intangible assets. This work will focus in particular on the latter category by analysing the role played by intellectual property rights within a network contract and will take into account the critical aspects that make their management problematic within a network contratc.

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Marisova, Iana. "Intellectual Property Protection in innovation projects Author:." Thesis, KTH, Fastigheter och byggande, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-102396.

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Intellectual products, scientific knowledge, information, professional, scientific, spiritual and cultural potential of the society today are the driving force behind economic growth, determine the competitiveness of production. This sets a strengthening of the role of intellectual property. The crucial role of intellectual assets in the global economy growth determined the choice of innovative strategy by Ukraine in the 21 stcentury. The important part of that strategy is the development of the national legal framework that includes adoption of the national laws and accession to international agreements that become part of the national legislation. The solution of the problem of forming an effective system of protection of intellectual property is a prerequisite for building a strong background for an innovative model of Ukraine’s development, its modernization, and the raising of its competitiveness in a global social-economic system, and consequently - creating jobs in new industries that could shape a 21st century global economy - an economy based on knowledge. The following thesis is a qualitative study about intellectual property protection and intended for Ukrainian companies and for students as information paper because there is differences between the old system in former Soviet and the European/US systems that has to be understood and business in Ukraine as well as researchers/inventors has to adjust to this different situations in order for companies to exploit the full potential of their innovations, part of this is by IP protection.

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Wright, Sarah. "Harvesting knowledge : the contested terrain of intellectual property rights in the Philippines /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5650.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2004.
Vita. The letter c replaces the 'c in a circle' copyright symbol used in the word intellectual on the t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-392).

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Fuhrmann, Thomas. "3D-printing : a new challenge for intellectual property?" Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15215.

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The most important rights, which state such a balance between these two parties, are the rights of intellectual property. Thus, an important question is to what extent 3D-printing conflicts with intellectual property rights. In general, intellectual property balances the rights between the owners of genuine products and their use through third parties. On the one hand the intellectual property rights give exclusive rights to the genuine owners, on the other hand they give as well some important exceptions for the use of third parts material. Hence, the purpose of this work is to examine, which intellectual property rights are affected by the production of a 3D-printed object. In each of the following chapters I will look at the different categories of intellectual property rights. I will examine in how far the creators of a CAD, the uploaders who upload a CAD on a website for a free or commercial download, the website owners who facilitate that uploads and the printers, whether private or with a commercial purpose, may be in conflict with any intellectual property rights. The most important intellectual property rights, which could be affected, are copyright, patents, registered designs, trade marks and passing off. For the present investigation it will be necessary to have a closer look at the different steps of the developing process of a 3D-printed product. More precisely, we have to differentiate between the creation of the CAD, the uploading of a CAD and finally the home-printing or the printing on demand through a specialised company. The aim of this work is to show how these single steps conflict with intellectual property rights and how the different actors in this process are liable for any infringing activity and in how far their activity is covered by any exception. Furthermore, we will also examine whether current legislation and jurisdiction appropriately address issues brought about by this new technology. Because of the reason, that the issue of 3D-printing in relation to intellectual property is quite a new one, this work will occasionally have a look abroad to other jurisdiction how they already dealt with similar problems. With this in mind, especially the US, European and German jurisdiction and laws will be regarded.

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He, Ying. "The emergence of the Sino-U.S. intellectual property rights regime." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0013/MQ31291.pdf.

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Karampaxoglou, Thaleia. "Genetically Modified Food and Crops : Risks and Intellectual Property Rights." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Centrum för tillämpad etik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-119766.

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This paper attempts to present and analyze problems that may arise from the use of Genetically Modified (GM) products and issues raised by the Intellectual Property (IP) rights that Genetic Engineering (GE) companies have on their products. Arguments in favor and against the existence of health risks and environmental risks of GM products are presented. The European policy of the socioeconomic effects of the GM products is discussed and is proposed the application of the precautionary principle for the prevention of unintended consequences from the GM products to other than health and environmental domains. The need of IP rights is supported, but is also suggested an IP rights flexibility. Do IP rights violate the rights of all people to a nourishing life, natural resources, the right to decide about what they eat and the right to live in a viable ecosystem? Finally, I provide an analysis of the effects on the farmers due to the IP rights on GM crop for cultivation and state dependency issues that may occur.

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McCabe, Ariane Ashley. "Strategies for globalization : assembling intellectual property rights for developing countries." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608782.

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Leepuengtham, Tosaporn. "The protection of intellectual property rights in outer space activities." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.685428.

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Pererva, P. G., A. V. Kosenko, and N. V. Shcherbak. "Compliance-risk of exclusion of intellectual property rights of objects." Thesis, ТОВ "Нілан-ЛТД", 2018. http://repository.kpi.kharkov.ua/handle/KhPI-Press/39485.

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