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SOFTWARE – DEFENSE AGENCIES – COMMERCIAL PROCUREMENTS........................................................................................... 21 VIII. DATA RIGHTS – CIVILIAN AGENCIES...................................................... 24 IX. RIGHTS IN SPECIAL WORKS AND EXISTING WORKS......................... 27 X. DATA RIGHTS IN PRACTICE...................................................................... 27 XI. RIGHTS IN BID AND PROPOSAL DATA.................................................... 31 XII. RIGHTS IN PATENTS UNDER GOVERNMENT

We study the incentives that governments have to protect intellectual property in a trading world economy. We consider a world economy with ongoing innovation in two countries that di¤er in market size and in their capacities for innovation. After describing the determination of national patent

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Researchers studying the differential commitment of countries to intellectual property rights, often appear to run into the claim that countries with a relatively higher and significantly changing technological base (the developed countries) opt for relatively stronger protection, whereas those

Legal frameworks across the world protect certain generally accepted types of intellectual property (patents, copyright, trademarks etc.). The last fifty years have seen a paradigm shift whereby intellectual assets such as intellectual property (IP), human capital and organisational capabilities

■ ABSTRACT: This text initially discusses the notion of intellectual property in Kant’s philosophy and in the eighteenth century. Next, it restates the problem within a contemporary setting, taking into account the new technologies on re-production of information. ■ KEYWORDS: Kant; intellectual

Intellectual property protection involves a tradeoff between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. As the scale of the market increases, due either to economic growth, or the expansion of intellectual property rights through treaties