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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.
International Patent Licensing Agreements And Conflict Of Laws, Giovanna Modiano
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.