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The Need For Adequate And Effective Protection Of Intellectual Property: Perspective Of The Private Sector - Patents, Peter C. Richardson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Patently Obvious: A Dual Standard Solution To The Diverging Needs Of The Information Technology And Pharmaceutical Patent Industries, Andrew Moody

Golden Gate University Law Review

This Comment proposes the use of a specifically tailored obviousness standard as a new solution to the IT and pharmaceutical patent industries' divergent needs. Part I summarizes the obviousness standard's history in patent law. Part II illustrates how the IT and pharmaceutical industries have divergent needs. Part III describes why using a single standard for the obviousness inquiry is inadequate to meet the needs of both the IT and pharmaceutical industries. Part IV illustrates why the obviousness standard needs to be specifically tailored for the IT and pharmaceutical industries. Finally, Part V concludes that a dual standard for obviousness is …

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Patents: Help Or Hindrance To Technology Transfer?, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

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Intellectual property is a broad heading used to refer to a wide variety of rights associated with inventions, discoveries, writings, artistic works, product designs, and designations of the source of goods and services. Patents and trade secrets are the most important of these sorts of intellectual properties in the field of biotechnology. One aspect of intellectual property that distinguishes it sharply from other forms of property-and for some people makes it harder to justify-is that intellectual properties may be possessed and used by many people simultaneously. This is not so for tangible property. If someone borrows my car, I cannot …