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Patents for Development : Improved Patent Information Disclosure and Access for Incremental Innovation
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TextPublication details: Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA Edward Elgar 2016Description: xvii, 275pISBN: - 978-1-78536-860-8
- 1. Introduction: context and importance of patent information for development 1.1 The disclosure requirement and the use of patent information for development 1.2 How technology transfer to developing countries has been addressed so far? 1.3 How this book intends to utilise patent information as a means for development
- 2. The significance of patent information 2.1 Definition and clarification issues: overview of the concept of patent information 2.2 'Patent information quality' and 'patent quality' 2.3 The reasons why patent information is underutilised
- 3 The foundation of a right to patent information 3.1 An implicit right to patent information 3.2 The foundation for an implicit right to patent information 3.3 Means of implementing an implicit right to patent information in law 3.4 A right to patent information within the existing patent system: centralisation of the patent system versus a right to patent information 3.5 Proposals for an explicit right to patent information
- 4. The inadequacy of the disclosure requirement 4.1 The theoretical justifications for the disclosure requirement 4.2 The obligation to provide clear and complete disclosure 4.3 The substantive inadequacy of the disclosure requirement
- 5 Access to and retrieval of patent documents
- 6. Transferring technologies utilising patent information
- 7. The case of Tunisia
- 8. Improving developing countries'capacity to utilise patent information for development
- 9. Conclusion: policy for promoting incremental innovation and development through exploitation of patent information
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