http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/34916 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:14:33 GMT 2013-05-21T21:14:33Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50069 Title: One-Day Preliminary National Consultation on Access to Patented Knowledge "Patents and Platform Technologies: Understanding Implications for Research and Development in Malaria and Tuberculosis" Authors: Sriram, K Abstract: Mr. Linu Mathew Philip, Executive Director, Centad warmly welcomed all distinguished resource people and delegates attending the consultation. He began the introduction by stating the importance of platform technology as an inter-phase to access medicine, in a time when pathogens were getting more resilient and there are fewer technologies to take on these issues. Mr. Philip also mentioned about Centad‟s dreams of access to medicines by taking on the policy issues effectively and aggressively. To make policies enable in such a way that people can have access to medicines and access to innovations, adding that technologies can find a good solution to these existing disease and the diseases that maybe coming in the course of time... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50069 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50067 Title: Quelle organisation communautaire de la recherche pour stimuler l'innovation dans la zone CEMAC ? Authors: Loumou, Désiré Abstract: Dans le cadre de son projet de recherche sur le thème dans quelle mesure l’exemption de la recherché peut-elle stimuler l’innovation, l’Appia a mené un ensemble de travaux dont plus d’un s’est intéressé à la problématique de l’état de la recherche dans la zone Cemac. A la suite de ces travaux, une préoccupation principale est née de la constatation de ce que l’état de la recherche dans cette sous-région était assez critique, non pas seulement du fait de l’absence d’une politique y relative, mais aussi et surtout du fait de la vétusté des outils institutionnels, juridiques et techniques qui concourent à son efficacité et sa contribution au développement socioéconomique de la zone... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50067 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50065 Title: Compulsory Licenses as means to Access Patented Platform Technologies in TB and Malaria Authors: Visalakshi, S; Raju, K D; Raju, R; Santhosh, M R; Pai, Y Abstract: Patents are issued to protect inventions and innovations and to serve as incentive for more such activity and as consideration for disseminating the invention/innovation to the wider public. This is expected to lead to larger quantity of the product/service which the patent contains so that the availability would be more and wide spread. It would also encourage competition. Hence the main purpose of issue of patent is encouraging dissemination of knowledge and wider use. If it really happens in the field it is very good. But does it really happen? The situation in the field at times is to exclude than include more people as users of knowledge embedded in a patent. This can happen by broad patents, refusal to license the patent etc. This can lead to monopolies, high prices, slow or no progress on follow-on research, reduced number of new products in the market etc. Ultimately in the case of biomedical research it can lead to reduced access to health care products which are vital. In this area especially after the advent of biotechnology there is a unusual increase in patenting activity by the academia and industry which includes upstream patenting which is the main concern of this study. Description: Annexures & Appendices included Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50065 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50064 Title: Exploring Patent Pooling as a Tool for National Development Authors: Santiago, Josephine R; Mendoza, Antonio Aldrin R; Vilchez, Maria Gladys C Abstract: As a response to the global competition initiated by the Call for Proposal by the International Development Research Center on the theme “ACCESSING PATENTED KNOWLEDGE FOR INNOVATION”, this Paper aims at exploring patent pools, a locally unfamiliar yet internationally-recognized and century-old approach to technology commercialization, as a tool for national development in the Philippines... Description: Appendices included Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50064 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50058 Title: Patent Pooling and Access to Knowledge A case study of biotechnology with reference to India Authors: Nanda, Nitya Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca:80/dspace/handle/10625/50058 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z