Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on PatentsPublisher:
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Category : Patent laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Arguments Before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives on H.R. 18851, to Amend the Laws of the United States Relating to Patents in the Interest of the Originators of Horticultural Products
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on PatentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patent laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
First the Seed
Author: Jack Ralph KloppenburgPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521395588
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This history of the scientific and commercial lines of plant development in the United States traces the transformation of the seed from a public good produced and reproduced by farmers into a commodity controlled by businesses and corporations divorced from the uses of their product.
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited
Author: Josh LernerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226473066
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 715
Book Description
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of innovation and technological change while revisiting the findings of a classic book. Central to the development of new technologies are institutional environments, and among the topics discussed here are the roles played by universities and other nonprofit research institutions and the ways in which the allocation of funds between the public and private sectors affects innovation. Other essays examine the practice of open research and how the diffusion of information technology influences the economics of knowledge accumulation. Analytically sophisticated and broad in scope, this book addresses a key topic at a time when economic growth is all the more topical.
International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime
Author: Keith E. MaskusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139444330
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 952
Book Description
Distinguished economists, political scientists, and legal experts discuss the implications of the increasingly globalized protection of intellectual property rights for the ability of countries to provide their citizens with such important public goods as basic research, education, public health, and environmental protection. Such items increasingly depend on the exercise of private rights over technical inputs and information goods, which could usher in a brave new world of accelerating technological innovation. However, higher and more harmonized levels of international intellectual property rights could also throw up high roadblocks in the path of follow-on innovation, competition and the attainment of social objectives. It is at best unclear who represents the public interest in negotiating forums dominated by powerful knowledge cartels. This is the first book to assess the public processes and inputs that an emerging transnational system of innovation will need to promote technical progress, economic growth and welfare for all participants.
Intellectual Property Rights and Food Security
Author: Michael BlakeneyPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845935608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book examines the contribution which intellectual property rights can make in the struggle for food security in developing countries. The book consists of 11 chapters. Chapter 1 locates intellectual property rights within the armoury of food security policies. Chapter 2 deals with definitional issues and examines the role of intellectual property rights in incentivizing agricultural research and development. Chapter 3 examines the international landscape of intellectual property and the approaches taken to the relationship between intellectual property rights, agricultural biotechnology, access to biological resources, food security and globalization which are taken by the WTO, FAO, CBD and WIPO among the various international and development agencies. Plant variety rights (PVRs) are a specially created form of intellectual property right originally minted to encourage agricultural innovation and Chapter 4 examines the effectiveness of PVRs in a food security context. Agricultural innovation is in part dependent upon access of researchers to the genetic resources of the biodiverse countries of the South. Chapter 5 considers the attempts to construct an international regime to secure this access. The important role of traditional farmers in preserving landraces and cultivars from which improvements can be derived has generated for a call for the recognition of farmers' rights, and this is examined in Chapter 6 together with agitation for the protection of the traditional knowledge which often informs access to the useful genetic resources. Chapter 7 examines the intellectual property implications of the use of genetically modified (GM) crops as a technological solution to food insecurity. The protection of GM crops is achieved through patent protection and Chapter 9 looks at the competition law implications of patent licensing, patent pools and patent thickets. An old intellectual property device that underpinned the commercial development of European agricultural marketing is the geographical indication, and Chapter 8 examines the contribution it might make to achieving food security. Returning to the theme of the role of intellectual property law in incentivizing innovation, Chapter 10 examines its role in promoting agricultural research. The concluding chapter proposes a number of recommendations for action in deploying intellectual property law in the struggle for food security.
A Catalog of Books Represented by Library of Congress Printed Cards Issued to July 31, 1942
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1688
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Solid Waste Management: Abstracts from the Literature
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Author: United States. Economic Opportunity OfficePublisher:
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Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description