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25-Aug-2006
OECD member countries have adopted an agreed set of Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions used in healthcare, in a move designed to spread the benefits more widely from advances in genetics while making research and innovation faster and more efficient. The Guidelines set out principles and best practices for those in business, research and health systems who enter into license agreements.
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30-Jun-2006
This paper reviews recent evidence and analyses in order to inform policy development. It examines the channels through which firms aim to exploit their IP and complements this firm-level perspective with a review of macroeconomic statistics related to the development of technology markets. The paper reviews various approaches to the valuation of patents and examines the range of policy initiatives undertaken by OECD countries to foster patent valuation and exploitation.
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22-May-2006
A number of OECD countries offer tax incentives to encourage and reward business expenditures on intellectual assets. This paper examines the tax treatment of corporate expenditures on selected intellectual assets and develops an indicator of the relative generosity of tax systems in OECD countries to such investments.
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20-Mar-2006
This paper outlines factors that may affect the ability of researchers to access patented inventions for legitimate research purposes. It reviews evidence of current and anticipated access limitations and explores options for the formulation of research exemptions that balance research use and patent holder’s rights.
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18-Oct-2005
This paper presents a preliminary set of European and international citation data tables designed to enable researchers to become familiar with the subject and undertake a range of analyses. It addresses a range of analytical and statistical issues and also discusses differences between US and European citations.
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01-Jun-2005
These proceedings provide a synthesis of two workshops jointly organised by the OECD and Chinese authorities in April 2004: "IPR and Economic Development in China: Meeting Challenges and Opportunities Following WTO Entry", and "IPR Issues Related to Public Research Institutions". Each event aimed at assisting China in its efforts to further improve IPR policy and enforcement by sharing the experience of OECD countries on a range of issues of special relevance and interest to Chinese policy makers and other stakeholders.
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14-Feb-2005
This report highlights the main messages of the two policy dialogues that the OECD organised with China in Spring 2004 on IPR issues. These dialogues aimed at assisting China in its efforts to further improve IPR policy and enforcement by sharing the experience of OECD countries on a range of issues of special relevance and interest to China.
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11-Feb-2005
This paper analyses the impact of the PCT data on the European Patent Office (EPO) patent statistics and explores methods to improve the timeliness of the EPO indicators by estimating the number of PCT applications which enter the EPO regional phase.
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11-Oct-2004
This publication presents the proceedings of an OECD conference that brought together leading economists, legal experts, patent officials, policy makers, and business executives from across the OECD to exchange views on how patent regimes can contribute more efficiently to innovation and economic performance.
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27-May-2003
This recent report presents the results of the first international study on patenting and licensing at public research organisations in OECD countries. It also includes data, case studies, in-depth examples and insights on how to unlock the social and economic benefits of public research.
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Conference Proceedings
Proceedings of the OECD conference that brought together leading economists, legal experts, patent officials, policy makers and business executives to exchange views on how patent regimes can contribute more efficiently to innovation and economic performance.
Patents, Innovation and Economic Performance
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