Modularity is a means of partitioning technical knowledge about a product or process. The impact of modularity on intellectual property protection by formally modeling the threat of expropriation by agents, the principal has three options to address this threat: doing nothing, licensing the focal IP ex ante, and Paying agents to prevent their defection. [...]
America’s pharma sector has asked US trade representative to continue to keep India on its priority watch list (PWL) which includes countries that are alleged violators of US patent laws, claiming that the environment on the grounds remains “challenging” in India. Among the key issues of concerns for the US pharma sector in India [...]
The Graduate Institute Centre for International Environmental Studies in Geneva invited Graham Dutfield, professor of international governance at the University of Leeds, for a public lecture on 20 March on intellectual property, food security, and rural development. He talked about innovation in agriculture, the rationale of IP rights, and measures that could be taken to reconcile IP rights [...]
Economic espionage has been a hot topic of sorts since the September 2015 agreement was made between USA and China, that called for both the countries to not knowingly conduct or support cyber enabled trade secret theft from companies in each others’ land with the intent of providing competitive advantage to its companies of [...]
The 21st century belongs to the entrepreneurs and they have no time to waste in creating intellectual property strategy. Which need to be protected and channelized for better use in future. IP is a field that helps to the creators to protect their ideas and concepts through copyrights, trademarks, and patents. As we know [...]
The ministry of information and broadcasting is looking at merging the copyright board with IPAB i.e. Intellectual Property Appellate Board. It is said that, The Copyright Board is set to be merged with the Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) under the Finance Bill, 2017 that was passed in the Lok Sabha. Intellectual property law for the [...]
