Research Paper 52, August 2014
Tackling the Proliferation of Patents: How to Avoid Undue Limitations to Competition and the Public Domain The steady increase in patent applications and grants that is taking place in developed and...
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Regional Pooled Procurement of Medicines in the East African Community This paper explores the current discussions in the East African Community (EAC) with regard to the establishment of a regional...
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Innovative Financing Mechanisms: Potential Sources of Financing the WHO Tobacco Convention Introduction and Objectives This research paper is produced as part of a research being conducted by the South...
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Patent Protection for Plants: Legal Options for Developing Countries The paper examines, first, the exclusion of patent protection for plants, including plant varieties, biological materials, and...
View ArticleResearch Paper 56, November 2014
The African Regional Intellectual Property Organization (ARIPO) Protocol on Patents: Implications for Access to Medicines This paper was commissioned to better understand the workings of the African...
View ArticleResearch Paper 57, November 2014
Globalization, Export-Led Growth and Inequality: The East Asian Story Over the last three decades, several East Asian economies have grown by leaps and bounds. The success of their export-led growth...
View ArticleResearch Paper 58, December 2014
Patent Examination and Legal Fictions: How Rights are Created on Feet of Clay Patents are often presented as an absolute property, comparable to property over land. This simplification overlooks that...
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Transition Period for TRIPS Implementation for LDCs: Implications for Local Production of Medicines in the East African Community Article 66.1 of the WTO TRIPS Agreement grants the least developed...
View ArticleResearch Paper 60, January 2015
Internationalization of Finance and Changing Vulnerabilities in Emerging and Developing Economies After a series of crises with severe economic and social consequences in the 1990s and early 2000s,...
View ArticleResearch Paper 61, March 2015
Guidelines on Patentability and Access to Medicines Until recently, the link between the examination of patents carried out by national patent offices and the right of citizens to access to medicines...
View ArticleResearch Paper 62, September 2015
Intellectual Property in the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Increasing the Barriers for the Access to Affordable Medicines Most free trade agreements signed by the United States, the European Union and the...
View ArticleResearch Paper 63, October 2015
Foreign Direct Investment, Investment Agreements and Economic Development: Myths and Realities Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the most ambiguous and the least understood concepts in...
View ArticleResearch Paper 64, February 2016
Implementing Pro-Competitive Criteria for the Examination of Pharmaceutical Patents This document discusses criteria for implementing the patentability requirements in relation to patent applications...
View ArticleResearch Paper 65, February 2016
The Rise of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the Extractive Sectors: Challenges and Considerations for African Countries African countries have been active in concluding international investment...
View ArticleResearch Paper 66, March 2016
The Bolar Exception: Legislative Models and Drafting Options The basic principle of patent law is that once the term of a patent has expired, the protected subject matter becomes a part of the public...
View ArticleResearch Paper 67, June 2016
Innovation and Global Intellectual Property Regulatory Regimes: The Tension between Protection and Access The objective of “Innovation and Global Intellectual Property Regulatory Regimes – The Tension...
View ArticleResearch Paper 68, June 2016
Approaches to International Investment Protection: Divergent Approaches between the TPPA and Developing Countries’ Model Investment Treaties While the international investment treaty regime is at a...
View ArticleResearch Paper 69, July 2016
Intellectual Property and Access to Science The boundaries between scientific and technological knowledge are nebulous in some technical fields, such as the biological sciences and their applications....
View ArticleResearch Paper 70, August 2016
Innovation and the Global Expansion of Intellectual Property Rights: Unfulfilled Promises The incorporation of intellectual property into trade agreements has not proven to bring about the promised...
View ArticleResearch Paper 71, October 2016
Recovering Sovereignty Over Natural Resources: The Cases of Bolivia and Ecuador This document analyzes the renegotiation process of oil and gas contracts in two Latin American countries, Bolivia and...
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