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In fact, the European Patent Office (EPO) is not particularly committed to assessing the moral implications of the patents it grants; in its view, “ordre public” would be violated only in the extreme case of a truly outrageous invention.
One study found that in 2009, across a variety of industries in the US, intellectual capital – patents, copyrights, databases, brands, and organizational knowledge – held a 44% share of firms’ overall market value.
Over the last two years, India has invalidated or otherwise attacked patents on 15 drugs produced by international firms in order to make way for local champions, claiming that exclusivity enables companies to charge high prices that harm consumers.
But drug patents and prices are not the main – or even a major – obstacle to patients’ access to medical care in India.
Europe trails the US in every dimension: the number of patents, the number of Nobel laureates, the number of researchers it is able to attract from the rest of the world.
It helps focusing research, it provides deadlines, screens the output, and allows patents to be valued at market prices.
Argentine inventors received just 63 patents in the US in the year 2000, compared with 3,400 patents received by Korean inventors.
Americans, including farmers, are more accustomed to paying for innovative technologies and products--a disposition reflected in a recent US Supreme Court decision that extended the scope of patents on plants.
There is a strong correlation between the number of visas for skilled applicants and patents filed in the US.
As he put it, “Venture capitalists literally ‘walk the halls’ of major research institutes in search of breakthroughs, embodied in patents and published papers, around which to build companies.
And in the US, immigrants take out patents at 2-3 times the rate of native-born citizens, and their innovations benefit non-immigrants as well.
In the US, for example, just 5% of all active patents are ever licensed or commercialized.
Although more than 75,000 patents have been issued to American universities since 1969, the vast majority of technology transfer offices – administrative units that manage a school’s intellectual-property output – are failing to generate enough revenue even to cover their operating costs.
When the Trump administration’s renegotiation of NAFTA ultimately takes shape, some time after August 16, it will be interesting to see just how many commitments regarding labor, patents, and subsidies are included.
Meanwhile, in the US, 78% of new medicine patents between 2005 and 2015 were related to drugs that are already on the market.
Patents have become too difficult to license, and they are too often acquired for strategic reasons than for novelty, as was originally intended.
More broadly, there is increasing recognition that the patent system, as currently designed, not only imposes untold social costs, but also fails to maximize innovation – as Myriad’s gene patents demonstrate.
And its tight control of the use of its patents has inhibited the development by others of better and more accurate tests for the presence of the gene.
That is why we do not allow patents for basic insights in mathematics.
And it is why research shows that patenting genes actually reduces the production of new knowledge about genes: the most important input in the production of new knowledge is prior knowledge, to which patents inhibit access.
Such efforts should promptly translate into legislative changes in areas ranging from insolvency to patents, from CO2 emission-reduction schemes to “smart” electricity grids.
In 2008, Huawei registered more patents than any other company in the world, and finished second to Japan’s Panasonic in 2009.
For example, pharmaceutical companies have insisted that the TPP force all countries to grant 12-year patents on prescription drugs – increasing their profits while delaying competition from cheaper generic versions.
That is why inventors have to be protected by patents and copyrights or subsidized by governments.
Ostensibly, Trump’s current priority in discussions with the Chinese is stronger protection for US patents and copyrights.
EU membership strengthens the UK's competitiveness by enabling it to negotiate the best deals on trade, tax rules, patents, money laundering, corruption, and security with China, India, and the rest of the world.
Transnational drug companies were shamed by NGO's into abandoning lawsuits in South Africa in 2002 over infringements of their patents on drugs to fight AIDS.
Researchers do not get patents, but they get citations, recognition, and promotions.
The questions on which the case turns are whether genetic patents help or hamper research, and whether patients should have to pay a license fee to a biotechnology corporation to be tested for predisposition to disease.
Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.
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