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Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

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Licensing On The Global Information Infrastructure: Disharmony In Cyberspace, Raymond T. Nimmer Jan 1996

Licensing On The Global Information Infrastructure: Disharmony In Cyberspace, Raymond T. Nimmer

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article explores some of the issues in international licensing and, particularly, in the evolution of information-based contracts.


Compulsory Patent Licensing In The United States: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Cole M. Fauver Jan 1988

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.


International Patent Licensing Agreements And Conflict Of Laws, Giovanna Modiano Jan 1980

International Patent Licensing Agreements And Conflict Of Laws, Giovanna Modiano

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

The choice of law rules applicable to disputes involving patent li- censing agreements was a subject that attracted considerable interest among prominent legal scholars in the 1950's.' During the following decade the attention of European scholars concerned with patent li- censing shifted to more substantive issues.2 In recent years, however, an interest in choice of law problems relating to patent licensing agree- ments has been revived.