They emphasized that the current systems of patents (specific mention was made of the TRIP agreements) did not favour indigenous peoples and did not recognize traditional systems of ownership.

Prizes, Not Patents

That is why patents expire.

The patents on those drugs were held by a number of Western pharmaceutical companies that were not necessarily willing to make those patents available.

Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 4 S.C.R. 45.

Ellen 't Hoen Pool medical patents, save lives

He received over 100 patents during his lifetime.

History First patents date from the early 1900s.

Nearly all of Edison's patents were utility patents, which were protected for a 17 year period and included inventions or processes that are electrical, mechanical, or chemical in nature.

But patents are ineffective in some industries, like finance.

Indonesia argues that a nation s right to control all information on locally discovered viruses should be protected through the same mechanisms that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization uses to guarantee poor countries rights of ownership and patents on the seeds of its indigenous plants.

All of our patents, our entire approach to patents and invention, is based on the idea that the inventor knows what the invention is for we can say what it's for.

The individual right to private ownership, including ownership of land, was also important.

Ownership

In the US, the first profitable textile mills blatantly violated British patents.

Support for basic research, and patents to protect successful innovation, may help.

Researchers do not get patents, but they get citations, recognition, and promotions.

As a nation, only ten other countries hold more patents than Sweden.

That is why we do not allow patents for basic insights in mathematics.

(c) Methods and terms of licensing and availability of patents relevant to the protection of the ozone layer.

Ownership, possession and use of property

The Myth of the Ownership Society

A clear understanding of data ownership.

Ownership of and Access to Assets.

January 1977 to May 1981 Examiner of deeds in the Office of the Register of Deeds, Companies and Patents.

Of the 25 companies granted the most US patents in 2006, only eight were American 12 were Japanese.

For example, immigrants to the US contribute more than half of the patents and Silicon Valley start ups.

Students must take ownership of their education.

Let s start with ownership of foreign resources.

Rights to Ownership, Acquisition Disposition of Property

Afghan ownership of those processes is essential.

Afghan ownership of development activity is vital.

It requires local ownership.

Ownership and shareholder rights

Barriers to property ownership.

There is a strong correlation between the number of visas for skilled applicants and patents filed in the US.

A 1 increase in the number of immigrant college graduates leads to a 6 increase in patents per capita.

The result is a bigger is better mentality that stresses ever more publications, patents, and citations.

The patents were subsequently purchased by Jaeger LeCoultre in France 1936 and in Switzerland in 1937.

In 2002, for instance, among 121 persons granted patents for industrial properties, there were 37 women.

Some researchers have found that the largest CEO performance incentives came from ownership of the firm's shares, while other researchers found that the relationship between share ownership and firm performance was dependent on the level of ownership.

And this is how it works Patent holders, inventors that develop new medicines patent those inventions, but make those patents available to the Medicines Patent Pool. The Medicines Patent Pool then license those out to whoever needs access to those patents.

Media cross ownership Cross ownership also refers to a type of media ownership in which one type of communications (say a newspaper) owns or is the sister company of another type of medium (such as a radio or TV station).

Much of this globally valuable capacity was built under a regime of weak in fact, non existent protection for pharmaceutical patents.

(c) Access to land ownership