A seemingly victimless crime of XXI century, in other words known as piracy has plagued every place with the Internet access. Resulting in over 300,000 redundancies annually and thus sufficiently harming the economy, piracy is still thought to be an innocent way of saving one’s pocket money. But no matter how many strict steps are taken to eradicate i... read more

Aoki, K. (1998). “Neocolonialism, Anticommons Property, and Biopiracy in the (Not-so-Brave) New World Order of International Intellectual Property Protection.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 6(1): 59-115.

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The author raises many questions of developing and maintaining... read more

Not surprisingly, the principal philosophical theory applied to the protection of utilitarian works – that is, technological inventions – has been utilitarianism (Merges, et al., 1997, pp. 135-136 hereinafter cited as MMLJ; Machlup, 1958).

Intellectual property is the ownership of intangible and non-physical goods. This includes id... read more

Patent can be described as a type of intellectual property that has a set of selected rights given by an independent state to the person who invented the property. The rights granted are for a period of time which in exchange they disclose their property to the public to use it. The processes of having the patent requirements given to the patentee var... read more