Patents

Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …

ERA OF MONOPOLY POWER 30 Box 5: Big Pharma and patents Big Pharma monopolies aggressively purchase their …

UN Women and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs published this report in 2023. It analyses progress on gender equality across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a …

2050. A mere 17% of inventors in international patents in 2022 were WOMEN, compared to 83% MEN. Only … WOMAN A mere 17% of inventors in INTERNATIONAL PATENTS were women, compared to 83% men Women are 2X …

manufacturers. • Consultancies and fees paid. • Patents (existing or pending) held by the individual or …

side-deals and not to challenge Cephalon’s secondary patents (pay-for-delay agreement).41 The Commission held … misleading or neglecting to update information to the Patents Registrar on publications and relevant sources … sources, in violation of section 18 (c) of the Patents Law 5727-1967;3 2. Abuse of economic position by … cc/3GG3-G85L (in Hebrew, by subscription). 3 Patents Law 5727-1967, SH 5727 Issue No. 510 p. 148, as … Supreme Court held that both section 18(c) of the Patents Law and section 29A(a) of the Economic Competition …

first detailed ethnographic account of the legal disputes that have arisen in the past decade around patents and royalties on genetically modified soybean, cotton, and eggplant. Seed Activism examines the complex …

They question, in particular, the legality of the patents and private IP systems implemented by Monsanto … two forms of IP protection coexist for plants: patents and plant breeders’ rights (also known as plant … intellectual protection more appro- priate than patents to the nature of agriculture and to the dissemination … Importantly, plant variety protection, in contrast to patents, include a number of exemptions to the exclusive … represented a real tour de force, considering that patents on life forms were until then thought of as a …

Due to a legal challenge, there was a staggered introduction of fast track debt recovery tribunals (DRTs) across the states of India in the 1990s. Exploiting this plausibly exogenous variation …

Further, other measures of innovation such as patents fail to fully capture innovation activity in the … with lower firm level innovation as measured by patents and R&D intensity. Acharya et al. (2011) document … Business dynamics of innovating firms: Linking us patents with administrative data on workers and firms. Journal …

Climate change has a disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities – notes A Lexicon on Climate Justice, published by Justice Adda, a digital initiative working on law and human rights. The …

challenge. Praxis A look at the list of energy patents over the last decade [wind, solar, photovoltaic …

Engendering Climate Change: Learnings from South Asia explores the “gendered experiences of climate change” across various landscapes and social contexts in South Asia, and the strategies people use for adapting …

sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. The Open Access version of this book …

The report presents the findings of two rapid surveys undertaken by Oxfam India in January 2021. The first survey studies the implementation of The Charter of Patient’s Rights (adopted by …

recently voted to approve a temporary breach of patents for COVID-19 vaccines, tests, and medicines for … report/liveblog/2021/04/30/brazilian-senate-approves-lifting-of-patents-covid-vaccines/ 112 https://www.hindustantimes …

Published by Oxfam International on January 25, 2021, this report discusses the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on inequality in countries worldwide.The report notes that the pandemic worsened economic, gender and racial …

corporations and insist on open access to all relevant patents and technology to enable safe and effective vaccines …