Members of Chilean congress and a group of 6 patients visited Chilean ministry of health yesterday to ask the government use authority under Chilean law to end patent monopolies on prostate cancer drug enzalutamide and on sofosbuvir-based combination drug for treatment of Hepatitis –C virus. The proposal was made under the advertisement of Luis [...]
As the ratification by the European Union of an international treaty creating an exception to copyright for visually impaired people nears, a leaked text shows that the directive implementing the treaty in the EU might come with safeguards limiting the scope of the treaty, allegedly pushed by the publishing industry. According to the document, [...]
Social media is a brilliant way for people to communicate quickly and creatively. You can quickly share thoughts, idea, and emoticon even with your phone. With instant access to just about any image across the web ,it seems harmless to pass around images. Easy access to image ever uploaded to the web is copyrighted [...]
Biotechnology is already becoming one of the budding fields of science in field of technology, and a large number of nations have set their sights on it as a long-term development pillar. Biotechnology has already proven to be an option of growth in multiple sectors such as pharmaceuticals, veterinary, cosmetics, environmental, agricultural, energy, which [...]
Intellectual property is key to the success of startups- Startups are the engine that drives innovation in the United States.These businesses generate new ideas at every turn, from the inventions that power the devices we use on a daily basis to the brand names and logos attached to those products.With the right steps in [...]
The world of intellectual property (IP) is rife with hypocrisy and rationalizations therefore. Full of people who incessantly steal other people’s IP, while proffering ridiculous assertions to justify their heists. And all them, they are doing everything they can to stop other people from stealing their IP. I’m not even claiming that people always [...]
