Search for dissertations about: "IPR"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the word IPR.
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1. Competition Law in Technology Transfer under the TRIPS Agreement - Implications for Developing Countries
Abstract : The TRIPS Agreement allows WTO Members to enact and apply appropriate domestic competition law to address IPR-related anti-competitive practices. However, these flexibilities in the TRIPS Agreement do not provide any specific guidance for WTO Members. READ MORE
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2. Individual Producer Responsibility in the WEEE Directive - From Theory to Practice?
Abstract : In the current discourse over what constitutes successful Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy implementation, there is an on-going debate over the ability of programme design to include an appropriate incentive mechanism to stimulate producers to improve the design of their products for reduced life cycle impacts, and especially the impacts and costs from the end-of-life management. At the centre of the debate is the Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) which has the explicit goal to encourage the design and production of electrical and electronic products which facilitate dismantling, recovery and in particular the reuse and recycling of WEEE. READ MORE
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3. Indirect Exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights By Corporations and Investors: IP Privateering & Modern Letters of Marque & Reprisal
Abstract : Competitive pressures and rent-seeking behaviors have motivated companies and investors to develop indirect techniques for beneficially exploiting third-party intellectual property rights (IPRs) that qualitatively depart from the slate of direct exploitation tools whose usage has been honed during the past 30 years of the pro-patent era. Companies have increasingly realized that they do not need to create IPRs themselves to exploit them beneficially, which has been the conventional usage pattern. READ MORE
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4. Competition law in technology transfer under the Trips agreement
Abstract : The TRIPS Agreement allows WTO members to appropriately enact and apply national competition law to address IPR-related anti-competitive practices. However, application of national competition law to anti-competitive restraints in technology transfer agreements and to abuses of refusal to transfer technology varies from developed countries to developing countries and even between developed countries. READ MORE
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5. Genetic and environmental influences on endometriosis in Swedish twins
Abstract : Background: Endometriosis is a common gynecological condition with a substantial economic burden on the society. It is known that both genetic and environmental factors are contributing to the phenotypic development of the disease but the mechanisms of their coexistence in the disease process are poorly understood. READ MORE
