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Compulsory Patent Licensing In The United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Cole M. Fauver
Compulsory Patent Licensing In The United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Cole M. Fauver
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
This Comment will consider several of the more common grounds justifying compulsory licenses, particularly as they affect international transactions. After analyzing the dynamic between each theory's practical economic effect and general economic philosophy, the Comment will then question whether the current United States policy against general compulsory licenses remains viable in today's economic markets.
Section 337 And Gatt And The Akzo Controversy: A Pre- And Post-Omnibus Trade And Competitiveness Act Analysis, Mark Modak-Truran
Section 337 And Gatt And The Akzo Controversy: A Pre- And Post-Omnibus Trade And Competitiveness Act Analysis, Mark Modak-Truran
Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business
The burgeoning of new technology such as semiconductor chips, computer software, genetic engineering, pharmaceuticals and other chemical processes raises important international trade issues for the protection of intellectual property rights. Inadequate protection has left the door open for pirating and counterfeiting. Section 337 of the United States Tariff Act of 1930 ("Section 337") protects intellectual property rights from international pirating and counterfeiting. It provides a mechanism for excluding fringing imports from the United States marketplace. In Re United States Litigation between E.I. Dupont de Nemours & Co. and Akzo N.V., the EC Commission determined that the procedure followed under Section …