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来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology: How to Improve the Present Patent System | |
Ignazio Musu | |
发表日期 | 2005 |
出处 | Economy and Society |
出版年 | 2005 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper discusses the problems related to assigning or denying intellectual property rights to biotechnological innovation, with particular reference to agro-biotechnologies and the relations between developed and developing countries. There are two types of problems to consider. First, the aim of protecting property rights on innovations is to create incentives towards research and innovation in general, which in some cases may be beneficial to society, in others not so. If the assignment of an intellectual property right does not guarantee the potential beneficial use of new knowledge, not assigning rights would not prevent its potentially dangerous utilization. Secondly, the holder of an intellectual property right has a power of exclusion which limits access by others to the newly produced knowledge. However, the production of new knowledge is very often a process which starts from a base of existing knowledge. Hence, discouraging access to existing knowledge also means discouraging the process of producing new knowledge. Paradoxically then, in protecting intellectual property we obtain the opposite result to the one expected and desired. Moreover, the holder of an intellectual property right may end up with excessive market power when commercializing the innovation. This paper will try to show that these problems cannot be solved, as sometimes is suggested, by denying protection of property rights on innovations, but by improving the procedures for awarding these rights and accompanying them with other measures such as liability rules governing potential damage and also antitrust measures. |
特色分类 | O30,O33,O34 |
关键词 | Intellectual property rights,Biotechnology,Patent system |
URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/intellectual-property-rights-and-biotechnology-how-to-improve-the-present-patent-system/ |
来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117195 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ignazio Musu. Intellectual Property Rights and Biotechnology: How to Improve the Present Patent System. 2005. |
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