protection of patent

The costs relating to the protection of patent rights must also be balanced and easy to implement.

Most important for American drug companies, it agreed to strengthen its protection of patents and other intellectual property rights.

Without the protection of patents, the incentive to get into the hard work of development would be lost."

There are also clauses that the Administration believes threaten the protection of patents and intellectual property rights.

Providing effective protection of patents, trademarks, industrial designs and other industrial property rights.

S.3 provides for the protection of patents, registered trade marks, design rights and copyrights from breach by Crown servants.

If inventors did not have the legal protection of patents, in many cases, they would prefer or tend to keep their inventions secret .

This rejection of compulsory licences forces us to question the duration of the protection of patents.

They argue that Mexico has lower standards for worker rights, environmental safeguards, drug enforcement and protection of patents and copyrights.

Most over-the-counter medicines sell for far less than prescription drugs because they are older products that lack the protection of patents that ward off competition.

"Active protection of patent rights is a common practice among patent-holders worldwide," SBC said in a statement.

Even some executives who have not been sued and who favor tough protection of patents think Texas Instruments might have gone too far.

The protection of property includes the protection of patents on inventions, guaranteeing the viability of research and development.

Issues as important as the protection of databases, the protection of patents and intellectual property were omitted from the negotiations.

The retreat is ascribed to a variety of factors, including uneven protection of patents, lower prices and slow access to a European market worth some $110 billion a year.

Their overall position is to manage the IP process, including validation, definition, filing and protection of patents and protection of trademarks/copyrights.

For the industry, the protection of patents - which give companies monopoly control over the drugs they bring to market for a number of years - is basic to their existence.

Progress on Patents Negotiators have also made considerable progress in the last two months toward strengthening the international protection of patents, the United States trade official said.

Other clauses looked as if they might threaten the protection of patents and intellectual property rights or impose undue restrictions, based on bogus safety concerns, on biotechnology exports.

On the question of intellectual property, Washington is fighting in these talks for an international pact that would raise the standards for protection of patents, copyrights, trade secrets and semiconductor designs.

The conference seeks a broad range of concessions to permit expansion of insurance, accounting, telecommunications and other services in foreign markets and improved protection of patents, copyrights and trademarks.

Open-source and free-software advocates, as well as some economists, have been pushing hard and loud for the bill to be scrapped, arguing that software developers do not need the protection of patents.

According to Mrs Merkel, it will not mean free trade or a common market, but the regulation of markets, the protection of patents, the harmonisation of rules and cooperation aimed at improving the world's economic governance.

Last month the United States and Poland signed a more broadly based business and economic treaty, providing for investment safeguards, protection of patents, copyrights and other intellectual property and the resolution of trade disputes.

The goal of the negotiators is to curb barriers in banking, insurance and other services, end agricultural export subsidies, restrict discriminatory investment practices and establish more rigorous rules for protection of patents, copyrights and other intellectual property.