Software Rights

Software Rights
Author: Gerardo Con Diaz
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0300249322

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A new perspective on United States software development, seen through the patent battles that shaped our technological landscape This first comprehensive history of software patenting explores how patent law made software development the powerful industry that it is today. Historian Gerardo Con Díaz reveals how patent law has transformed the ways computing firms make, own, and profit from software. He shows that securing patent protection for computer programs has been a central concern among computer developers since the 1950s and traces how patents and copyrights became inseparable from software development in the Internet age. Software patents, he argues, facilitated the emergence of software as a product and a technology, enabled firms to challenge each other’s place in the computing industry, and expanded the range of creations for which American intellectual property law provides protection. Powerful market forces, aggressive litigation strategies, and new cultures of computing usage and development transformed software into one of the most controversial technologies ever to encounter the American patent system.

Patenting Lives

Patenting Lives
Author: Professor Johanna Gibson
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-02-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1409496384

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Patenting Lives includes contributions from various interests and perspectives, both in the context of current international developments in life patents and the global agenda of harmonization of international intellectual property. The book is divided into five sections reflecting the critical issues arising from patents and biotechnology – Context; Human Rights and Ethical Frameworks; Medicine and Public Health; Traditional Knowledge; and Agriculture. The international contributors from government, civil society, academia and the private sector provide diverse perspectives on life patents and the facilitation of social, cultural and economic development in the context of international principles of trade.

U.S. Patent Office Research and Development Program. Staff Report

U.S. Patent Office Research and Development Program. Staff Report
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 61
Release: 1963
Genre: Government productivity
ISBN:

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People, Plants, and Patents

People, Plants, and Patents
Author: Crucible Group
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1994
Genre: Biodiversity
ISBN: 0889367256

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People, Plants and Patents: The impact of intellectual property on biodiversity, conservation, trade and rural society

Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development

Notes on Patents, Distortions, and Development
Author: Julio J. Nogués
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 35
Release: 1990
Genre: Patentes
ISBN: 9609281826

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What are the economics of patents? What problems arise in implementing a patent system? How much do distortions in developing countries affect the benefits and costs of a patent system? And what are the policies that would increase the likelihood of patents benefiting a developing country?

Patents for Development

Patents for Development
Author: Nefissa Chakroun
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Disclosure of information
ISBN: 9781785368608

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This book investigates whether it is possible to execute the disclosed technologies just by reading the patent application. Nefissa Chakroun argues that while TRIPS Agreement obliges inventors to disclose full and complete disclosure, patent information users lack the capacity to fully utilise such information for their economic development. The book offers a critical analysis of the disclosure requirements of the patent system as well as an in-depth examination of the ways in accessing and retrieving patent information. Chakroun articulates proposals for strengthening the disclosure and methods for enhancing retrieval and exploitation of the technological knowledge, including an integrated policy on how patent information could be better utilised for development

Genetic Engineering of Plants

Genetic Engineering of Plants
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1984-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309034345

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"The book...is, in fact, a short text on the many practical problems...associated with translating the explosion in basic biotechnological research into the next Green Revolution," explains Economic Botany. The book is "a concise and accurate narrative, that also manages to be interesting and personal...a splendid little book." Biotechnology states, "Because of the clarity with which it is written, this thin volume makes a major contribution to improving public understanding of genetic engineering's potential for enlarging the world's food supply...and can be profitably read by practically anyone interested in application of molecular biology to improvement of productivity in agriculture."

The Democratization of Invention

The Democratization of Invention
Author: B. Zorina Khan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2005-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521811354

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This book, first published in 2005, examines the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century'.

A Patent System for the 21st Century

A Patent System for the 21st Century
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2004-10-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309089107

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The U.S. patent system is in an accelerating race with human ingenuity and investments in innovation. In many respects the system has responded with admirable flexibility, but the strain of continual technological change and the greater importance ascribed to patents in a knowledge economy are exposing weaknesses including questionable patent quality, rising transaction costs, impediments to the dissemination of information through patents, and international inconsistencies. A panel including a mix of legal expertise, economists, technologists, and university and corporate officials recommends significant changes in the way the patent system operates. A Patent System for the 21st Century urges creation of a mechanism for post-grant challenges to newly issued patents, reinvigoration of the non-obviousness standard to quality for a patent, strengthening of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, simplified and less costly litigation, harmonization of the U.S., European, and Japanese examination process, and protection of some research from patent infringement liability.