Histoire de brevets / Patents history

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• Managing scientific patenting in the French Research Organizations during the Interwar period

  12 novembre 2014, par GGB

  Résumé :
  One of the main features of the academic entrepreneurship is undoubtedly the use of intellectual property rights and, more particularly, the patenting of scientific discoveries. If the early 1980s and the adoption of the Bayh -Dole Act in the United States are considered as a turning point, the use of the intellectual property rights by scientific organizations have to be taken into account in the long term, by integrating both discourses and practice. Besides, the US situation has (...)

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• The 1883 convention and the impossible unification of industrial property

  19 juin 2014, par GGB

  Symbol of a global policy, the TRIPS agreement is often considered as a way to impose a Western intellectual property regime and, thus, as a form of neocolonialism. Some critical analysis of the Western intellectual property invite us to historicize its development and refuse therefore to consider the TRIPS agreement as the inevitable outcome of a teleological process. Characterized by an early international regulation – with the creation of the 1883 Paris Convention on patents and (...)

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• Le retour du brevet d’invention au XIXe siècle

  29 mai 2009, par GGB

  La présentation faite lors du séminaire consacré au retour de la pensée propriétaire (IFRIS, 28-29 mai 2009)

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• Was the French Patent System democratic ? France, 19^th century

  5 février 2008, par GGB

  An extract of my paper.

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