VIRGIN LANDS OF INVENTION. LIFE IN PATENT ECOSYSTEMS - Tecno-Libro

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1. The IP world.
2. Chess-board politics.
3. Expanding properties.
4. Non-market economics.
5. Price-based competition.
6. World policy coherence.
7. Shoulders of giants inc.
8. Super-assets.
9. Capital legal games.
10. Bibliography.

This book takes access to medicines as a case study for exploring key global policy issues in technological development and scientific innovation.

The first chapters explain patterns and trends of the ratcheting up of global IP standards (chapters 2 to 4), and further chapters go on to analyze some pragmatic market-driven reforms to make IP work for the common good (chapters 5 and 6).

Subsequently, the book explores the ways in which legal monopolies (read patents) relate to scientific innovation as well as to market structure and formation (chapter 7 and 8).

Finally, some conclusions and proposals are put forward for recalibrating IP on essential technologies to the benefit of society at large (chapter 9).