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China plans for 50% increase in number of patent agents
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| China's State Intellectual Property Office has formulated a Plan for the
| Development of the Patent Agency Industry (2009-2015). Although I cannot find
| a copy of the plan - which I guess is published only in Chinese - one of its
| central planks is that by 2015 there should be 10,000 practising patent
| agents in China, up from the 6,000 that currently operate.
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http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/detail.aspx?g=a9fda9cf-f353-4493-a87c-8b10c209578a
Supreme People's Court of China: "Current Economic Situation Makes Granting IPR
Injunctions More Difficult"
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| This this not contravene China's obligations under the Agreement on
| Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs): Articles 7 and
| 8 TRIPs, taken together may provide, "a basis for seeking waivers to meet
| unforeseen conditions of hardship," J.H. Reichman, The TRIPs Agreement Comes
| of Age: Conflict or Cooperation with the Developing Countries, 32 Case W.
| Res. J. International Law, 2000, pp. 441 and 461.
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http://ipdragon.blogspot.com/2009/06/supreme-peoples-court-of-china-current.html
Recent:
What use are research patents?
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| In any case, I'm not buying David's assertion that "most universities", or
| most hospitals or research institutes for that matter, rely heavily on
| licensing income. And that being so, I am also somewhat skeptical about the
| number of researchers' families being supported by patents.
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| What's the Open Science connection? Well, if you're interested in patenting
| the results of your research, there are a lot of restrictions on how you can
| disseminate your results. You can't keep an Open Notebook, or upload
| unprotected work to a preprint server or publicly-searchable repository, or
| even in many cases talk about the IP-related parts of your work at
| conferences. It seems from the data above that most universities would not be
| losing much if they gave up chasing patents entirely; nor would they be
| risking much future income, since so few seem to get significant funds from
| licensing.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2009/06/what_use_are_research_patents.php
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of “upstream” patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable “patent thicket” blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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