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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection [PDF]

open access: yes
Recent empirical studies suggest a need for a flexible patent regime responding to industry characteristics. In practice, sector-specific modifications of patent strength already exist but lack theoretical foundation.
Malte Mosel
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Legalist and realist decision-making in patent law: Validity cases in Germany

open access: yes
While realist approaches towards judicial decision-making have become predomi- nant, their appropriateness is much less obvious for specialized or technical fields of law, such as patent litigation, and evidence is much scarcer than for generalist courts.
Tamar Khuchua   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Progress to Date with the Unitary European Patent and the Unified Patent Court for Europe

open access: yes, 2013
584-588Following political agreement in the European Council in June 2012, the EU enacted legislation to establish the European patent with unitary effect in December 2012 and most EU member states signed an international treaty in February 2013 ...
Cook, Trevor
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Animal empathy reconsidered: a multidimensional profile account

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Empathy is the glue that holds societies together and yet several fundamental questions about empathy persist. What is empathy (the definitional question)? Is it uniquely human and, if not, which nonhuman animals possess empathy (the distribution question)? Which type or quality of empathy is realized in different species (the quality question)
Albert Newen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Circular Design Strategies Unleashed: Competitiveness and the Journey Towards Circular Manufacturing Businesses

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transition to a circular economy (CE) remains hindered by the lack of practical strategies that simultaneously secure competitiveness and deliver sustainability outcomes for manufacturing organisations. While circular design is often cited as a cornerstone of CE, its concrete role in driving competitive advantage and organisational ...
Shamaila Ishaq   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Infringement proceedings before the Unified Patent Court

open access: yes
Das einheitliche Patentgericht, welches mit Juni 2023 seine Arbeit aufgenommen hat, hat hinsichtlich seines Verfahrensrechtes einige Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Verfahrensrecht der österreichischen nationalen Patentverletzungsverfahren.
Lindner, Stefan
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Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EAES intellectual property protection guide. [PDF]

open access: yesSurg Endosc
Nakajima K   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unlocking Proenvironmental Behaviour: A Scoping Review of Green Human Resource Management and Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment Through the Ability–Motivation–Opportunity Lens

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite accelerating interest in green human resource management (GHRM) and its connection to organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment (OCBE), the field remains theoretically fragmented. This scoping review synthesises 12 empirical studies anchored in the ability–motivation–opportunity (AMO) framework.
Mamdoh M. Algethami, Nadine Campbell
wiley   +1 more source

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