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Finding A Forest Through The Trees: Georgia-Pacific As Guidance For Arbitration Of International Compulsory Licensing Disputes, Karen Mckenzie
Finding A Forest Through The Trees: Georgia-Pacific As Guidance For Arbitration Of International Compulsory Licensing Disputes, Karen Mckenzie
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
This paper will examine the challenges of international compulsory licensing by examining the issue historically and legally as well as offer possible solutions. Thus, this paper will explore the challenge of balancing corporate interests against the affordability and availability of pharmaceuticals by focusing on discrete situations in developing countries, the history of compulsory licensing, and how the World Health Organization (the “WHO”) and the WTO have attempted to tackle these challenges through compulsory licensing, and it will suggest a possible framework for use in arbitration, which balances equities through a Georgia-Pacific analysis.
Using Alternative Dispute Resolution To Resolve Patent Litigation: A Survey Of Patent Litigators , Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
Using Alternative Dispute Resolution To Resolve Patent Litigation: A Survey Of Patent Litigators , Eugene R. Quinn, Jr.
Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review
Mr. Quinn provides an empirical overview of patent litigation, after which, he notes that the true growth in patent litigation has not occurred in the courtroom trial of disputes, but in the pretrial process. He concludes that increasing reliance on alternative dispute resolution, particularly mediation, is responsible for both the dramatic number of cases terminating during the pretrial process and the constant number of patent trials. The author reports the results of a survey taken of over one hundred patent litigators. The focus of the survey was to determine the attitude of patent litigators toward mediation or arbitration and their …