Publications

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

Patient Mobility in Europe: Filling the void where public systems fail

Patient mobility is, in various exciting ways, fostering innovations in the way health care is provided and managed in European health systems. In this paper, the author of the Europe for Patients report for the European Commission shows that the use of the private sector in this area could potentially bring substantial benefits to patients/citizens and policy-makers, as well as other key players in the health sector.

We are facing a demographic time bomb: by 2050, there will be 2 workers to every 1 retired person in most European countries. In some countries that ratio will be 1:1. The harsh reality is that current pay-as-you-go pension systems are simply financially, economically and socially unsustainable - without reform, pensioners will bankrupt the welfare state.
Internationally renowned experts on pensions have contributed to this publication in an attempt to answer some of the most difficult questions facing us today: Should pay-as-you-go systems be tweaked only slightly? Is there a role for the market in providing pensions? If so, how extensive should that role be? What are the benefits to the citizen? To the government? What can be learned from countries that have already reformed? Is the Chilean model suitable for the ailing systems in Europe? Or is the Swedish approach to reform more appropriate?

It is time to defuse the pensions time bomb. This timely book offers Europe a way ahead

In this issue of Know IP we look at the following issues:
1) Turn of the Tide or Big Pharmas Strike Back?
2) National IP Policy Making- Myth and Reality
3) Research Use of Patent Inventions- Experiences of the Swiss Patent Law Revision
4) Top Stories in the World of IP and Competition

In this issue of Know IP we look at the following topics:
1) The Patentability of the CIPIH Report
2) Reflections of the European Software Patent Debate
3) Bigger Than Jesus and the Holy Grail
4) Pirates in Sweden
5) Upcoming Stockholm Network IP debate

In this second publication in the series, Jacob Arfwedson examines the role that the market should play in the world of pharmaceuticals. He argues that a fundamentally new approach is needed - an approach that allows innovators to innovate, that limits government regulation to only those cases in which it is truly necessary and that allows the market to create the right incentives for a competitive and efficient market for medicines.

An examination of the progress of liberalisation in the six major Western European energy markets - France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.

A comprehensive account of the Stockholm Network`s activties, publications, sponsors and supporters, membership and achievements.