Intellectual Property
| Title | Link |
|---|---|
| OECD - Carliene Brenner - Intellectual property rights and technology transfer in developing country agriculture: rhetoric and reality - Technical paper 133 - March 1998 - (51 pages) | http://www1.oecd.org/dev/PUBLICATION/tp/Tp133.pdf |
| Ip-health -- Discussions of Intellectual Property and Health Care | http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/ip-health |
| Public Citizen - Patently Offensive Congress Set to Extend Monopoly Patents for Cipro and Other Drugs - November 2001 - (20 pages) | http://www.citizen.org/documents/ACF34F.PDF |
| Pediatric Trials and Intellectual Property Incentives in the EU - A Report by Europe Economics for Merck Sharp and Dohme (Europe) Inc. - May 2001 - (73 pages) | http://www.eer.co.uk/download/eepaedia.pdf |
| USPTO - Patenting By Geographic Region (State and Country), Breakout by Technology Class Count of 1996 - 2000 Utility Patent Grants By Calendar Year of Grant | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/clsstc/regions.htm |
| Philippe Ducor - Coauthorship and Coinventorship - Science Magazine - Volume 289, Number 5481, Issue of 11 Aug 2000, pp. 873-875. | http://watson.fapesp.br/nuplitec/873.html |
| Lawrence M. Sung - Echoes of Scientific Truth in the Halls of Justice: The Standards of Review Applied by the United States Court of Appears for the Federal Circuit in Patent-Realted Matters - 1999 - American University Law Review - (86 pages) | http://www.wcl.american.edu/journal/lawrev/48/pdf/sung.pdf |
| Anna E. Morrison - The U.S. PTO's New Utility Guidelines: Will They Be Enough to Secure Gene Patent Rights? - 1 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 142 - 2001 - (22 pages) | http://www.jmls.edu/ripl/vol1/issue1/morrison.pdf |
| Lawrence M. Sung - Part II: Judicial Issues Stranger In A Strange Land: Biotechnology and the Federal Circuit - 168 Re-Engineering Patent Law Vol. 2:167- (32 pages) | http://law.wustl.edu/Journal/2/p167sung.pdf |
| Sherry M. Knowles - Written Description and Enablement Requirements for Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biotechnology Inventions - (36 pages) | http://www.kslaw.com/library/pdf/pharmaknowles.pdf |
| Matthew D. Kellam - Making Sense out of Antisense: The Enablement Requirement in Biotechnology After Enzo Biochem v. Calgene - 222 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL [Vol. 76:221 - (22 pages) | http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v76/no1/kellam.pdf |
| Under-valuing Australia’s genetic materials by accepting broad claims in patenting genetic materials under the Patents Act 1990 (Cth) - (75 pages) | http://www.ipcr.gov.au/ipcr/SUBMIS/docs/03lawson.pdf |
| Carlos Correa- Integrating Public Health Concerns into Patent Legislation in Developing Countries - South Centre - 2000 (143 pages) | http://www.southcentre.org/publications/publichealth/publichealth.pdf |
| Arti Kaur Rai - Regulating Scientific Research: Intellectual Property Rights and the Norms of Science - Nortwestern University Law Review - 1999 - (76 pages) | http://www.acusd.edu/~arai/raifinal.pdf |
| Keith E. Maskus - Parallel Imports in Pharmaceuticals: Implications for Competition and Prices in Developing Countries - Final Report to WIPO - April 2001 - (85 pages) | http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/studies/pdf/ssa_maskus_pi.pdf |
| Christopher Heath - Parallel Imports and International Trade - WIPO - (12 pages) | http://www.wipo.org/sme/en/documents/pdf/atrip_gva_99_6.pdf |
| Tibor Gold – Partner, Stephenson Harwood - Parallel imports and the exhaustion of rights: the world focus (17 pages) | http://www.shlegal.com/docs/parallelimports.pdf |
| Parallel Importing A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation - Report to Ministry of Commerce - Prepared by NZIER - February 1998 | http://www.med.govt.nz/buslt/int_prop/parallel/index.html#TopOfPage |
| Mattias Ganslandt and Keith E. Maskus - Parallel Imports of Pharmaceutical Products in the European Union - Please do not quote without permission - (27 pages) | http://econ.worldbank.org/files/2240_wps2630.pdf |
| Mattias Ganslandt and Keith E. Maskus - Parallel Imports of Pharmaceutical Products in the European Union - The Research Institute of Industrial Economics - Working Paper No. 546, 2001 - (28 pages) | http://swopec.hhs.se/iuiwop/papers/iuiwop0546.pdf |
| TRIPS on Trial - The Impact of WTO’s Patent Regime The Impact of WTO’s Patent Regime On the World’s Farmers, the Poor On the World’s Farmers, the Poor and Developing Countries and Developing Countries -Declaration de Berne September 2001 - (27 pages) | http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/tripsontrial.PDF |
| François Dessemontet - L’épuisement en droit des brevets : un arrêt de principe - CEDIDAC Bulletin d’information n° 32 – Décembre 1999 - (9 pages) | http://www.unil.ch/cedidac/bulletin/bulletin_32.pdf |
| WTO - Ministerial Declaration - Adopted on 14 November 2001 - (10 pages) | http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_e.pdf |
| WTO -Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health - Adopted on 14 November 2001 - (2 pages) | http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_trips_e.pdf |
| WTO - Implementation-Related Issues and Concerns - Decision of 14 November 2001 - (8 pages) | http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/minist_e/min01_e/mindecl_implementation_e.pdf |
| FTC - In the Matter of 180-Day Generic Drug Exclusivity for Abbreviated New Drug Applications - Comment of the Staff of the Bureau of Competition and of Policy Planning of the FTC - November 4, 1999 | http://www.ftc.gov/be/v990016.htm |
| WHO and UNAIDS - Patent situation of HIV/AIDS-related drugs in 80 countries - Geneva, January 2000 - (16 pages) | http://www.who.int/medicines/library/par/hivrelateddocs/patentshivdrugs.pdf |
| WIPO (monthly) magazine 2002 (access to pdf files) | http://www.wipo.org/publications/general/121/2002/index.html |
| James G. Silva - Copyright Protection Of Biotechnology Works: Into The Dustbin Of History? - 2000 B.C. Intell. Prop. & Tech. F. 012801 - January 28, 2000 | http://infoeagle.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/law/st_org/iptf/articles/content/2000012801.html |
| WHO - Legal Status of Traditional Medicine and Complementary/Alternative Medicine: A Worldwide Review - (199 pages) | http://www.who.int/medicines/library/trm/who-edm-trm-2001-2/LegalStatus-final.pdf |
| Oxfam - TRIPS and Public Health The next battle - (18 pages) | http://www.cptech.org/files/Oxfam-Int-TRIPSPublicHealth.doc |
| Patent Law Statute - 35 U.S.C. - (68 pages) | http://www.law.duke.edu/curriculum/courseHomepages/spring2002/369_01/patentstatute.pdf |
| Frank P. Porcelli - John A. Dragseth - Patents A Historical Perspective - Ver. 2002 - (610 pages) | http://www.law.upenn.edu/patents/sp2002/downloads/2002_casebook.pdf |
| Notes from class of Professor Wagner at the University of Pennsylvania Law School | http://www.law.upenn.edu/patents/sp2002/ |
| Patent Web Pages with a list of hyperlinks to national patent offices | http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/patents.html |
| Merck v. Kessler, 903 F. Supp. 964, (E.D.Va. 1983) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall99/merck.html |
| Roche v. Bolar, 572 F. Supp. 255 (E.D.N.Y. 1983) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall99/roche.html |
| Eli Lilly v. Medtronic, 15 U.S.P.Q.2.d 1121 (S. Ct. 1990) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall99/lilly.html |
| Amgen v. Hoechst Marion Roussel and Transkaryotic Therapies, 3 F. Supp.2d 104 (D. Mass. 1998) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall99/amgen.html |
| Berlex Laboratories v. Food and Drug Administration, 942 F. Supp. 19 (D.D.C. 1996) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/courses/fall99/berlex.html |
| Todd Mattingly Paul Morico Linda Stokley and Janelle Waack - Recent Developments in Patent Law - (16 pages) | http://www.utexas.edu/law/journals/tiplj/volumes/vol4iss3/stokley.pdf |
| March/April 2002 Issue # 75 Biopiracy + 10 - Captain Hook Awards - 2002 - (10 pages) | http://www.etcgroup.org/documents/Biopiracy+10Comm.pdf |
| wipout.net, the website of the intellectual property counter-essay contest | http://www.wipout.net/home_eng.html |
| MSD - Conference Report Implementation of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPs Agreement and Public Health : Technical Assistance – How to Get It Right - 28th March 2002, International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG) - (7 pages) | http://www.accessmed-msf.org/upload/ReportsandPublications/26420021519443/REPORT.pdf |
| C-427/93, C-429/93 and C-436/93 - Judgment of the Court of 11 July 1996. Bristol-Myers Squibb v Paranova A/S and C. H. Boehringer - Repackaging of trade-marked products. | http://curia.eu.int/common/recdoc/indexaz/en/c2.htm |
| Proposed Bill by Senator Dorgan - To permit commercial importation of prescription drugs from Canada, and for other purposes. | http://dorgan.senate.gov/meds.pdf |
| US Trade Representative (USTR) - 2002 Special 301 Report Executive Summary - (35 pages) | http://www.ustr.gov/reports/2002/special301-report.PDF |
| The Pediatric Exclusivity Provision - January 2001- Status Report to Congress - (57 pages) | http://www.fda.gov/cder/pediatric/reportcong01.pdf |
| C. Correa - Patent Law, TRIPS, and R&D Incentives: A Southern Perspective - CMH Working Paper Series Paper No. WG2: 12 - (35 pages) | http://www3.who.int/whosis/cmh/cmh_papers/e/pdf/wg2_paper11.pdf |
| Recent Developments and Challenges in the Protection of intellectual property rights pharmaceuticals and biotechnological Inventions - May 2001 - (24 pages) | http://www.wipo.org/ip-conf-bg/en/documents/pdf/sof01_2_5.pdf |
| Paul V. Buday - Hints on Preparing Successful Orphan Drug Designation Requests - Food and Drug Law Journal - (10 pages) | http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/51_1/art4.pdf |
| U.S. Supreme Court decision - Warner Jenkinson Co., Inc. v. Hilton Davis Chemical Co. (95-728), 520 U.S. 17 (1997). - patent law | http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-728.ZO.html |
| Judgment of 23/04/2002, Merck, Sharp & Dohme - Case C-443/99.- Exhaustion of the rights conferred by the trade mark | http://curia.eu.int/common/recdoc/indexaz/en/c2.htm |
| Judgment of 23/04/2002, Boehringer Ingelheim and others - C-143/00 - Exhaustion of the rights conferred by the trade mark | http://curia.eu.int/common/recdoc/indexaz/en/c2.htm |
| Catalin Cosovanu - Intellectual Property and Technological Development in Central and Eastern Europe - Stanford University - May 2001 - (104 pages) | http://www.stanford.edu/~cosovanu/diverse/Thesis.pdf |
| Robert P. Merges * and Richard R. Nelson - On the Complex Economics of Patent Scope - 90 Colum. L. Rev. 839 - (62 pages) | http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ipcoop/90merg2.html |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property - Patents - Directives pour l'examen quant au fond - (156 pages) | http://www.ige.ch/F/jurinfo/pdf/dirpat.pdf |
| Carlos M. Correa - Recent Developments in the Field of Pharmaceutical Patents: Implementation of the TRIPs Agreement - December 1998 | http://www.haiweb.org/campaign/novseminar/correa2.html |
| Anthony Leonard - The European Approach to Inventive Step in Pharmaceutical Patents | http://www2.ari.net./foley/leonard.html |
| ATF 96 I 752 - Arrêt du TF sur la marque Enterocura | http://wwwsrv1.bger.ch/atf/index/96_I.html |
| Jacqueline D. Wright - Implications of Recent Patent Law Changes on Biotechnology Research and the Biotechnology Industry . Virginia Journal of Law and Technology Spring 1997 | http://vjolt.student.virginia.edu/text_only/vol1/vol1_art2.html |
| Legal protection of biotechnical inventions: Frequently Asked questions on scope and objectives of the EU Directive (98/44) | http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/invent/2k-39.htm |
| Council Regulation (EEC) No 1768/92 of 18 June 1992 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products | http://pharmacos.eudra.org/F2/eudralex/vol-5/pdfs-en/921768en.pdf |
| Draft Guidance on the acceptability of trade names for medicinal products processed through the centralized procedure - 2002 - (5 pages) | http://www.emea.eu.int/pdfs/human/regaffair/032898en.pdf |
| Competition and Intellectual Property Policy: The Way Ahead - Prepared Remarks of Timothy J. Muris Chairman of the FTC - before American Bar Association Antitrust Section Fall Forum - Washington, DC - November 15, 2001 | http://www.ftc.gov/speeches/muris/intellectual.htm |
| Decision of United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit - 01-1369, -1370 Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. and Riker Laboratories and Alphapharm Pty. Ltd. .v. Barr Laboratories - Hatch Waxman | http://www.ipo.org/2002/IPcourts/3M_v_Barr.htm |
| Top IP law firms | http://www.law.com/special/professionals/ipww/2002/top_defense_plaintiff_firms.html |
| F. M. Scherer - The Pharmaceutical Industry and World Intellectual Property Standards - Vanderbilt Law Review Vol. 53:6:2245 - (10 pages) | http://law.vanderbilt.edu/lawreview/vol536/scherer.pdf |
| Peter Drahos - Bilateralism in Intellectual Property - A Paper Prepared for Oxfam - (14 pages) | http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/bilateral/biltateral.rtf |
| Peter Drahos - Trade-Offs and Trade Linkages: TRIPs in a Negotiating Context - Geneva, 12 September 2000 - Quaker United Nations Office - (13 pages) | http://hostings.diplomacy.edu/quaker/new/doc/OP1.pdf |
| WTO Patent Rules and Access to Medicines: The Pressure Mounts - June 2001 - Oxfam | http://www.oxfam.org.uk/policy/papers/wtorules/wtorules.rtf |
| Brian Martin - Against intellectual property - (28 pages) | http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/98il/il03.pdf |
| Geoff Tansey - Food, Power, Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge – A Food Systems Overview -UNCTAD Expert Meeting - 2000 - (22 pages) | http://www.unctad.org/trade_env/docs/tansey.pdf |
| Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite - The Globalisation of Regulation - (26 pages) | http://www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk/EJWP0200.pdf |
| A.S.Taubman - Reorienting TRIPS: Intellectual Property Law in North Asia - Working paper - 2001 | http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/news/assets/TaubmanPaper.doc |
| Calestous Juma and Jayashree Watal - Global Governance and Technology - 2000 - draft - | http://www.undp.org/hdro/papers/backpapers/backgroundpapers/juma.doc |
| Peter Drahos - The Universality of Intellectual Property Rights - Origins and Development - (36 pages) | http://www.wipo.org/globalissues/events/1998/humanrights/papers/pdf/drahos.pdf |
| Nicholas Gruen & Gerard Prior & Ian Bruce Extending Patent Life: Is it in Australia's Economic Interests ? - June 1996 - (49 pages) | http://www.lateraleconomics.com/outputs/Extending%20Patent%20Life.pdf |
| Literature survey on intellectual property rights and sustainable human development Selected and compiled by Graham Dutfield February 2002 | http://www.ictsd.org/unctad-ictsd/docs/bioblipr.pdf |
| GAO - Intellectual Property - Industry and Agency Concerns Over Intellectual Property Rights - May 20, 2002 - (13 pages) | http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02723t.pdf |
| The Multilateral Trading System: A Development Perspective - Third World Network December 2001 United Nations Development Programme - (103 pages) | http://www.undp.org/mainundp/propoor/docs/TWN%20text%20jan11.pdf |
| UNDP - Global initiatives to create technologies for human development - Chapter 5 - (36 pages) | http://www.undp.org/hdr2001/chapterfive.pdf |
| WIPO - Striking a Balance: Patents and Access to Drugs and Health Care | http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/studies/publications/health_care.htm |
| Haiweb - NGO statement on Drug Policy at the 55th World Health Assembly May 2002: "Ensuring Accessibility of Essential Medicines" Resolution EB109.R17 | http://www.haiweb.org/campaign/access/wha55/WHA55briefing.doc |
| James Love - CPT Comments on South Africa's Pharmaceutical Legislation, Discusses Parallel Imports and Health Registration Data - October 6, 1997 | http://www.cptech.org/pharm/sa/sa-10-97.html |
| Quality King Distributors v. L'Anza Research, 523 U.S. 135, 118 S. Ct. 1125, | http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/pdf/96-1470P.ZO |
| James Gregory Cullem - Panning for Bioetchnology Gold Reach-Through Royalty Damage Awards for Infringing Uses of Patented Molecular Sieves- 39 J.L. & TECH. 553 - (17 pages) | http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/articles/39/39_4/17.Cullem.pdf |
| Phanesh Koneru - To Promote the Progress of Useful Articles? An Analysis of the Current Utility Standards of Pharmaceutical Products and Biotechnology Research Tools - 38 IDEA 625 - (64 pages) | http://www.idea.piercelaw.edu/articles/38/38_4/20.Koneru.pdf |
| Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley - Is Patent Law Technology-Specific? - Draft - (3 pages) | http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0109/0109107.pdf |
| Boston University Journal of Science & Technology Law Symposium - Probing the Human Genome: Who Owns Genetic Information? - 4 B.U. J. SCI. & TECH. L. 2 - February 1997 - (43 pages) | http://www.bu.edu/law/scitech/volume4/4jstl02.pdf |
| CCNE N°064 Opinion on a preliminary draft law incorporating transposition into the Code of intellectual property, of a European Parliament and Council Directive 98/44/CE, dated July 6, 1998, on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions | http://www.ccne-ethique.org/english/pdf/avis064.pdf |
| Communication from the European Communities and their member states to the trips council concept paper relating to paragraph 6 of the Doha declaration on the trips agreement and public health - (8 pages) | http://trade-info.cec.eu.int/europa/2001newround/050-02-rev.pdf |
| Protection de la propriété intellectuelle dans le domaine de la biotechnologie: considérations éthiques concernant la brevetabilité des animaux et des plantes Une contribution à la discussion - (15 pages) | http://www.buwal.ch/stobobio/ekah/pdf/diskussion_f.pdf |
| Swiss Ethics Committee on Non-human Gene Technology - Evaluation éthique de la technologie «Terminator» - (12 pages) | http://www.buwal.ch/stobobio/ekah/pdf/term_f.pdf |
| Brazil, Pharmaceutical Industry and WTO - (87 pages) | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID272208_code010605140.pdf?abstractid=272208 |
| European Aids Treatment Group (EATG), Glaxo SmithKline Delivers Killer Greed- In Time for the Holidays | http://www.eatg.org/news/00/271200.html#greed |
| Margaret Duckett, Compulsory Licensing and Parallel Importing: What do they mean? Will they improve access to essential drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS? Background Paper, ICASO, July 1999 | http://www.icaso.org/docs/compulsoryenglish.htm |
| Harvey E. Bale, Consumption and trade in off- patented medicines. ICRIER, Working Paper n° 65 - May, 2001 - (29 pages) | http://www.icrier.res.in/pdf/bale65.PDF |
| Pain pour le prochain, Les brevets contre la santé | http://www.ppp.ch/news.php |
| Loi fédérale sur la protection des designs - Ldes | http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/ff/2001/5487.pdf |
| John H. Barton - Competition and Competitive Uses of Intellectual Property - Symposium Paper - (do not cite status) - Stanford University | http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Symposia/Antitrust/index.htm |
| Ashish Arora and Andrea Fosfuri - Licensing in the Chemical Industry - Symposium Paper - (Do not cite status) - April 1998 - Stanford University | http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Symposia/Antitrust/index.htm |
| John H. Barton - The Impact of Contemporary Patent Law on Plant Biotechnology Research - Symposium Paper - (Do not cite status) | http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Symposia/Antitrust/index.htm |
| Mark A. Lemley - Ration Ignorance at the Patent Office - Essay - Northwestern University Law Review Vol.95 n° 4 - Working Paper from Berkeley web site- 2001 - (39 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/wp/101.pdf |
| John R. Allison & Mark A. Lemley - The Growing Complexity of the United States Patent System - Working Paper from Berkeley web site - 2001 - (84 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/wp/201.pdf |
| Richard J. Gilbert and Willard K. Tom - Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies?: The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later - April 2001 - Working paper from Berkeley web site - (47 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/wp/601.pdf |
| Matthew J. Conigliaro, Andrew C. Greenberg & Mark A. Lemley - Foreseeability in patent law - Working paper from Berkeley web site - 2001 - (34 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/wp/701.pdf |
| Decision of the Swiss Federal Tribunal - ATF124 III 375 - July 10, 1998 - regarding pharmaceuticals' certificate of complementary protection | http://www.eurospider.ch/buge3/index/124_III.html |
| WIPO, Rules of Arbitration | http://arbiter.wipo.int/arbitration/arbitration-rules/complete.html |
| WIPO, Patent applications filed and patents granted during 1998 by country | http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/publications/b/1998/i/pattab1.pdf |
| WIPO, Broad Summary of Patents figures - 1998 - | http://www.wipo.int/ipstats/en/publications/b/1998/i/broad1.pdf |
| WIPO, Introduction to the Internaitonal phase of the PCT | http://www.wipo.org/pct/guide/en/gdvol1/pdf/gdvol1.pdf |
| WIPO, Introduction to the national phase of the PCT | http://www.wipo.org/pct/guide/en/gdvol2/pdf/gdvol2.pdf |
| WIPO, Rules of the Patent Cooperation Treaty - PCT | http://www.wipo.org/pct/en/texts/articles/atoc.htm |
| WIPO, Regulations under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) | http://www.wipo.org/pct/en/texts/pdf/pct_regs.pdf |
| WIPO, Administration instructions under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) - (89 pages) | http://www.wipo.org/pct/en/texts/pdf/ai_01.pdf |
| BIO - Statement on patent-term amendments to protect diligent patent applicants and 18-month publication of patent applications before the Courts and Intellectual Property Subcommittee | http://www.bio.org/laws/tstm2261.html |
| Council of Europe - Recommendation 1240 (1994) on the protection and patentability of material of human origin | http://stars.coe.fr/ta/ta94/erec1240.htm |
| Council of Europe - Recommendation 1425 (1999) on Biotechnology and intellectual property | http://stars.coe.fr/ta/ta99/erec1425.htm |
| Draft - New Swiss Federal law on patents - (Loi sur les brevets, LBI) | http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/Doks/vl/patg_ges-f.pdf |
| Explicative report regarding the draft new Federal Law on patents - (93 pages) | http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/Doks/vl/patg_ber-f.pdf |
| Annual report of the Federal Institute for Intellectual Property - (29 pages) | http://www.ige.ch/F/institut/pdf/i102jb01f.pdf |
| Federal Department of Justice and Police - Biotechnologie et droit des brevets: Rapport sur la brevetabilité des inventions concernant les organismes - August 1993 - (52 pages) | http://www.ige.ch/F/jurinfo/pdf/j140_biof.pdf |
| Richard F. Kingham and Grant H. Castle - Data and Marketing Exclusivity for Pharmaceuticals in the European Community - 55 Food and Drug Law Journal 209 - (16 pages) | http://www.fdli.org/pubs/Journal%20Online/55_2/art3.pdf |
| Deepak Somaya & David J. Teece - Combining Patented Inventions in Multi-invention Products: Transactional Challenges and Organizational Choices - Working paper from Berkeley web site - August 2001 - (49 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/wp/801.pdf |
| Janice M. Mueller, The Evoling application fo the written description requirement to biotechnology inventions - Berkeley Technology Law Journal- Issue 13:2 - 1998 | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/journals/btlj/articles/13_2/Mueller/html/reader.html |
| U.S. Patent Law Research Guide - Specialized Guide n° 2 - George Washington University Law School | http://www.law.gwu.edu/burns/guides/patent.pdf |
| Arti K. Rai 1 - ADDRESSING THE PATENT GOLD RUSH: THE ROLE OF DEFERENCE TO PTO PATENT DENIALS - DRAFT: Please do not cite or quote - (35 pages) | www.acusd.edu/~arai/washu.pdf |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - PCT Administrative Instructions - (85 pages) | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapps/pct/pctadmin.pdf |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Provisional patents information | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/provapp.htm |
| US Patent and Trademark Office - Manual of Patent Examining Procedure | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/mpep_e8_pdfs_zipped.zip |
| US Patent and Trademark Office - list of cases in alphabetical order | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/foia/bpai.htm |
| US Patent and Trademark Office - Changes to Implement 20-Year Patent Term and Provisional Applications - June 1995 | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/doc/uruguay/20_year_term.html |
| Patent and Trademark Office Report on Recommendations from the April 1998 Conference on Database Protection and Access Issues - July 1998 | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/dcom/olia/dbconf/dbase498.htm |
| United States Patent and Trademark Office - Eighteen-Month Publication of Patent Applications | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/pgpub.htm |
| U.S. Patent and Trademark Office - Fee Schedule | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/qs/ope/1999/fee20011001.htm |
| US Patent and Trademark Office - Patent Search | http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html |
| William W. Fisher III - The Growth of Intellectual Property: A History of the Ownership of Ideas in the United States - Harvard University - Eigentum im internationalen Vergleich (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999), 265-91 | http://www.law.harvard.edu/Academic_Affairs/coursepages/tfisher/iphistory.html |
| Judgment
of the Court of 20 May 1976 - Adriaan de Peijper, Managing Director of
Centrafarm BV - Case 104-75 Reference for a preliminary ruling: Kantongerecht Rotterdam - Netherlands. |
http://curia.eu.int/common/recdoc/indexaz/en/c1.htm |
| Judgment
of the Court of 10 October 1978 - Centrafarm BV v American Home Products
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Arrondissementsrechtbank Rotterdam - Netherlands. Serenid - Seresta. |
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| WIPO - Patent Protection and Access to HIV / AIDS Phamaceuticals in Sub-Saharan Africa - (105 pages) | http://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/studies/pdf/iipi_hiv.pdf |
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| International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property - home page | http://www.aippi.org |
| AIPPI - Publications | http://www.aippi.org/services-online-publications.html |
| WTO - Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights - Document prepared by the International Bureau of WIPO for the Meeting on Intellectual on Genetic Resources - An Overview | http://docsonline.wto.org/_ |
| WTO - THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (CBD) AND THE AGREEMENT ON THE TRADE-RELATED ASPECTS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (TRIPS); | http://docsonline.wto.org/_ |
| OECD - Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer and Genetic Resources - an OECD Survey of current practices and policites - (81 pages) | http://www1.oecd.org/dsti/sti/s_t/biotech/prod/ipr.pdf |
| Geneva University - Guidelines on technology transfer | http://www.unige.ch/unitec/directives.html |
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| OECD - Patents and Innovation in the International Context - 1997 - (36 pages) | http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M000014000/M00014675.pdf |
| OECD - Directorate for Financial, Fiscal and Enterprise Affairs - Committee on Competition Law and Policy - Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights - September 1998 - DAFFE/CLP(98)18 - (458 pages) | http://www1.oecd.org/daf/clp/roundtables/IPR-GD.PDF |
| WTO - CANADA – TERM OF PATENT PROTECTION - Arbitration under Article 21.3(c) of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes - (19 pages) | http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/170arb_e.pdf |
| WTO - Canada – PATENT PROTECTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS - Arbitration under Article 21.3(c) of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures - Award of the Arbitrator James Bacchus -August 2000 - (21 pages) | http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/114abr_e.pdf |
| WTO
- Canada – Patent Protection of Pharmaceutical products - Complaint by
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| Robert Blackburn - Extraterritorial enforcement - practical considerations for lawyers - (5 pages) | http://www.law.washington.edu/Casrip/Symposium/Number6/Blackburn.pdf |
| International Intellectual Property Institute - IIPI - home page - "a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to improving intellectual property systems around the world" | http://www.iipi.org/eng/ |
| IIPI - HIV/AIDS Pilot Project - To Deliver Patented Therapies & Other Treatments to Patients in Developing Countries - | http://www.iipi.org/eng/projects/aids.asp |
| American Bar Association ABA - Section of Intellectual Property Law | http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/home.html |
| Delphion - home page - "providing easy access to patent research, IP management and analytic tools that empower Fortune 1000 enterprises to strategically manage their intellectual property assets" | http://www.delphion.com/ |
| American Intellectual Property Law Association - AIPLA - home page | http://www.aipla.org/ |
| Intellectual Property Institute - home page - "to promote awareness and understanding of intellectual property law and its contribution to economic and social welfare" | http://www.ip-institute.org.uk/ |
| Jeanne Clark et al., USPTO - Patent Pools: A Solution to the Problem of Access in Biotechnology Patents? - December 2000 - (17 pages) | http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/patentpool.pdf |
| Robert P. Merges - Institutions for Intellectual Property Transactions: The Case of Patent Pools August - 1999 Revision - (74 pages) | http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/pubs/merges/pools.pdf |
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| Tom Horton - Patenting our Lives and our Genes: Where does Congress stand in the coming clash? - from FTC web site - (11 pages) | http://www.ftc.gov/os/comments/intelpropertycomments/hortonthomasjarticle.pdf |
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| Cecil
D. Quillen, Jr. - Proposal for the Simplification and Reform of the
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| Michael Abramowicz - Perfecting Patent Prizes - (126 pages) | http://www.gmu.edu/departments/law/faculty/papers/docs/01-29.pdf |
| Michal Cohen - Patent Protection of Biotechnological Inventions – Economic Perspectives and the EC Directive Analysis - August 2001 - (63 pages) | http://www.frg.eur.nl/rile/emle/Theses/cohen.pdf |
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| Compulsory Licensing under TRIPs and Data Exclusivity - (24 pages) | http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/pdf/med_lic.pdf |
| United Nations Economic Commission for Africa - Organization of African Unity - Africa and the Multilateral Trading System Doha and Beyond - An Issues Paper - (32 pages) | http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Conference_Reports_and_Other_Documents/espd/2001/eca_oau/issue_paper.PDF |
| A. O. Adede - ICTSD - The Political Economy of the TRIPS Agreement: Origins and History of Negotiations - (36 pages) | http://www.ictsd.org/dlogue/2001-07-30/Adede.pdf |
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| Benjamin Horwich - “The Jury Trial Right In Patent Infringement Actions Commenced Under The Hatch-Waxman Act, 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(2)” - (50 pages) | http://www.stanford.edu/~bhorwich/writing/horwich_hatch-waxman.pdf |
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| John R. Thomas - HIV/AIDS Drugs, Patents and the TRIPS Agreement: Issues and Options - July 27, 2001 - Congressional Research Service The Library of Congress - (27 pages) | http://rxpolicy.com/studies/crs-aidspatentstrips-0701.pdf |
| Frederick M. Abbott - The TRIPS Agreement, Access to Medicines and the WTO Doha Ministerial Conference - September 8, 2001 - (42 pages) | http://hostings.diplomacy.edu/quaker/new/doc/OP7%20Abbott1.pdf |
| Carsten Fink - How Stronger Patent Protection in India Might Affect the Behavior or Transnational Pharmaceutical Industries - Development Research Group The World Bank - (46 pages) | http://econ.worldbank.org/docs/1106.pdf |
| Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980) | http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/hosted_resources/jepson/unit3abcd/diamond2.htm |
| Frederick
M. Abbott - Compulsory Licensing for Public Health Needs: The TRIPS
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http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/cl/quno-op9.pdf |
| Sivaramjani
Thambisetty - Human Genome Patents and Developing Countries - Study
Paper 10 - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights - - February 2002 - (70 pages) |
http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5Cthambisetty%20study.pdf |
| Peter
Drahos -Developing Countries and International Intellectual Property
Standard-setting - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights Study Paper 8 -February 2002 - (52 pages) |
http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5CDrahos%20study.pdf |
| Michael Blakeney - Access to Genetic Resources, Gene-based Inventions and Agriculture - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights - Study Paper 3b - February 2002 - (39 pages) | http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5CBlakeney%20study.pdf |
| Dwijen
Rangnekar - Access to Genetic Resources, Gene-based Inventions and
Agriculture - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights Study Paper 3a - (73 pages) |
http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5CRangnekar%20study.pdf |
| B. Zorina Khan - Intellectual Property and Economic Development: Lessons from American and European History - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights Study Paper 1a -February 2002 - (58 pages) | http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5CKhan%20study.pdf |
| THE SOUTH AFRICAN DRUGS CASE - CIPR (British) Commission on Intellectual Property - June 2001 - (8 pages) | http://www.iprcommission.org/documents%5CS%20Africa.pdf |
| CIPR - Commission on Intellectual Property Rights - home page - "The Commission has been set up by the British government to look at how intellectual property rights can work better for poor people and developing countries" | http://www.iprcommission.org/index.asp |
| United States Patent and Trademark Office - US. PTO | http://www.uspto.gov/ |
| European Patent Office - home page | http://www.european-patent-office.org/ |
| European Patent Office - Guidelines for examination (400 pages) | http://www.european-patent-office.org/legal/gui_lines/pdf/gui_e_full.pdf |
| Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property - home page (in English) | http://www.ige.ch/E/gisi.htm |
| Amir Attaran - Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health: Options for TRIPS Council - Working draft - (12 pages) | http://www2.cid.harvard.edu/cidwp/087.pdf |
Last updated: July 7, 2002