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Of Oceans, Islands, And Inland Water – How Much Room For Exceptions And Limitations Under The Three-Step Test?, Annette Kur
Of Oceans, Islands, And Inland Water – How Much Room For Exceptions And Limitations Under The Three-Step Test?, Annette Kur
Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business
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Intellectual Property Rights To Enhance International Clean Tech Transfers, Anastasia Lewandoski
Intellectual Property Rights To Enhance International Clean Tech Transfers, Anastasia Lewandoski
Sustainable Development Law & Policy
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Dreadful Policing: Are The Semiconductor Industry Giants Content With Yesterday’S International Protection For Integrated Circuits?, Michael Fuerch
Dreadful Policing: Are The Semiconductor Industry Giants Content With Yesterday’S International Protection For Integrated Circuits?, Michael Fuerch
Richmond Journal of Law & Technology
Over the past twenty years, the semiconductor industry has grown rapidly. Technological advances have resulted in smaller, faster, and more cost-efficient semiconductor integrated circuits. Today, integrated circuits (“chips”) are found in the majority of electronic devices includes consumer electronics like computers, phones, televisions, and automobiles, and industrial electronics such as motor drives and programmable logic controllers.
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An Economic Justification For Open Access To Essential Medicine Patents In Developing Countries, Sean Flynn, Aidan Hollis, Mike Palmedo
An Economic Justification For Open Access To Essential Medicine Patents In Developing Countries, Sean Flynn, Aidan Hollis, Mike Palmedo
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
This paper offers an economic rationale for compulsory licensing of needed medicines in developing countries. The patent system is based on a trade-off between the “deadweight losses” caused by market power and the incentive to innovate created by increased profits from monopoly pricing during the period of the patent. However, markets for essential medicines under patent in developing countries with high income inequality are characterized by highly convex demand curves, producing large deadweight losses relative to potential profits when monopoly firms exercise profit-maximizing pricing strategies. As a result, these markets are systematically ill-suited to exclusive marketing rights, a problem which …