TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nefissa Chakroun
TI  - Patents for Development : Improved Patent Information Disclosure and Access for Incremental Innovation
SN  - 978-1-78536-860-8
U1  - 347.771 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - 1. Introduction: context and importance of patent information for development
KW  - 1.1 The disclosure requirement and the use of patent information for development
KW  - 1.2 How technology transfer to developing countries has been addressed so far?
KW  - 1.3 How this book intends to utilise patent information as a means for development
KW  - 2. The significance of patent information
KW  - 2.1 Definition and clarification issues: overview of the concept of patent information
KW  - 2.2 'Patent information quality' and 'patent quality'
KW  - 2.3 The reasons why patent information is underutilised
KW  - 3 The foundation of a right to patent information
KW  - 3.1 An implicit right to patent information
KW  - 3.2 The foundation for an implicit right to patent information
KW  - 3.3 Means of implementing an implicit right to patent information in law
KW  - 3.4 A right to patent information within the existing patent system: centralisation of the patent system versus a right to patent information
KW  - 3.5 Proposals for an explicit right to patent information
KW  - 4. The inadequacy of the disclosure requirement
KW  - 4.1 The theoretical justifications for the disclosure requirement
KW  - 4.2 The obligation to provide clear and complete disclosure
KW  - 4.3 The substantive inadequacy of the disclosure requirement
KW  - 5 Access to and retrieval of patent documents
KW  - 6. Transferring technologies utilising patent information
KW  - 7. The case of Tunisia
KW  - 8. Improving developing countries'capacity to utilise patent information for development
KW  - 9. Conclusion: policy for promoting incremental innovation and development through exploitation of patent information
ER  -