Publications

In this isseu of Know IP we look at the following topics:

1) Oxfam is an Honourable Organisation or the Unbearable Ease of Half-Truths?
2) Defending Oxfam's Honour
3) Support in the Field of IPRs for SMEs: To Patent or not to Patent?
4) Some Recent SPC Developments in Europe
5) News Flahes
6) Recent Events

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Imagine living in a world where doctors were afraid to write prescriptions because it was unclear whether or not the pharmacy had genuine, ‘real’ medicines on its shelves. If the counterfeit medicines industry is allowed to continue its growth, such a future is not only imaginable, but is all too possible.
The business of creating, distributing and selling counterfeit medicines is an unregulated, criminal and growing part of the global economy. But there is one major difference between pharmaceutical counterfeiting and other underground industries: lives are at stake.

In the second instalment of The Stockholm Network's IP Experts' Series, Dr Duncan Curley looks at the role of European legislation in fostering a competitive innovation and intellectual property climate.

The latest entry in the Stockholm Network's A Healthy Market? series looks at the role of private markets in the provision of healthcare in Europe and addresses such questions as:
• What is the meaning behind a consumer driven healthcare system?
• What role has the private sector played in healthcare and what has it contributed?
• Where does the market succeed and where does it fail?
• What is the role of the private sector in providing solutions to the problem of funding?
• What role should the government play in the provision of healthcare?

In this issue of Know IP we look at the following issues:

1) Will the EU Fail Again?
2) Turning the EU Competition Authority into a Software Certification Authority
3) What's on the Scientists' Minds?
4) News Flashes
5) Upcoming Events

In this paper, which is the first in the Stockholm Network Expert's Series on Intellectual Property and Competition, Prof Blakeney argues that "IP has applications across many different human activities: industry, commerce, health, nutrition, communications and culture. This is reflected first in the large number of national, international and regional treaties, conventions and laws which have an IP application, as well as in the large number of national, international and regional organisations and government departments asserting an IP policy-making role. A result of this crowded policy field is that IP policies are sometimes overlapping, contradictory and confusing. It is also difficult for countries to participate effectively in the many different policy fora." This situation necessitates the establishment of a capacity at the national level for inter-ministerial collaboration in IP policy formulation.

In this issue of Know IP we look at the following topics:
1) What's the Environment (and Energy) Got to Do with it?
2) Rightful or Restrictive: Will Consumers Ever Learn to Stop Worrying and Start Loving DRM?
3) IPR Mediation in an Increasingly Global and Technological Society
4) G8 Statement on Combating IPR Piracy and Counterfeiting
5) Top Stories in the World of IP and Competition

In this issue of Know IP we look at the following issues:
1) Two Perspectives on IPRs and Multilateralism
2) The Importance of Technology Transfer in Developing Countries
3) Anti-trust and Patent Settlement Investigations
4) Top Stories in the World of IP and Competition

Eye on Europe Summer 2006 edition