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Best Of The Supremes - A Review Of The U.S. Supreme Court Term 2009-2010, Miller W. Shealy Jr.

Miller W. Shealy Jr.

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The Requirement For An Invention In Patent Law, Justine Pila

Justine Pila

This book offers an analysis of legal conceptions of the invention in UK patent law and their development from before the first English patent legislation of 1623 through the patent system’s recent phase of Europeanization. Its publication comes at a time of widespread uncertainty regarding the invention, which is the basic subject matter of patent protection in all jurisdictions, and the meaning of which is currently under review by the US Supreme Court, the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office, and the Australian Government. The central thesis of the book is that properly construed, the requirement for …

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Pharmaceutical Patent Bargains: The Brazilian Experience, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Daniel Benoliel

Bruno Meyerhof Salama

In the backdrop of the strict patent regime flatly adopted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) for all countries, a few countries constantly challenge this system through aggressive patent bargains. Within the pharmaceutical sector, noticeably, some countries now threaten to issue or otherwise actually issue compulsory licenses that may sway large pharmaceutical companies into selling drugs with large discounts or into granting voluntary licenses domestically. That is conspicuously the negotiation strategy adopted by Brazil in its negotiations with big international pharmaceutical companies. This paper explains Brazil’s aggressive bargaining approach based on an analysis of two aspects of its political economy. …