Essays about: "employment agreement"

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  1. 31. Compulsory Licensing of Pharmaceutical Products & Access to Essential Medicines in Developing Countries

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Anna Niesporek; [2005]
    Keywords : Compulsory Licensing; TRIPS Agreement; 30 August Decision; Patents; Pharmaceutical Products; Pharmaceuticals; Medicines; AIDS;

    Abstract : For many years pharmaceutical patents and their impact on prices have been at the centre of the international debate over insufficient access to lifesaving HIV/AIDS medicines in developing countries. The conflict has largely revolved around the implementation of an intellectual property system in the developing world, subsequent the adaptation of the TRIPS Agreement, which has made a 20 year pharmaceutical patent protection mandatory for these countries and consequently contributed to high drug prices for patented medicines as well as limited the use of generic drugs. READ MORE

  2. 32. Attitudes towards protection of biodiversity in forests : a case study of forest owners in Skåne, Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre

    Author : Per-Ola Hedwall; [2004]
    Keywords : private forest owners; attitudes; nature protection; biodiversity;

    Abstract : The focus of nature protection through area protection in Swedish forests has for a long time been on boreal, subalpine and alpine areas. Large areas have of this reason been protected in northern Sweden, while the protection of forest in southern Sweden, and especially in the temperate zone, have been almost neglected. READ MORE

  3. 33. Ownership of employee inventions - regulation in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Karin Reinholdsson; [2002]
    Keywords : Immaterialrätt; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This essay presents the reader with an insight to how Sweden, the UK and the US deal with matters concerning inventions created by employees. It provides information on how employee inventions are categorized, which type of employee inventions belong to the employer, what right the employer has in these types of inventions, what or if he is obliged to compensate the employee and how contracts between employers and employees are handled. READ MORE

  4. 34. The right to health and right to intellectual property in the EU. Analysis of the internal and external policies.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Beata Faracik; [2002]
    Keywords : Human Rights Law and Intellectual Property Rights; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : It is very common nowadays to speak of an ''information society'' in which control of information or information based knowledge has replaced control over matter as an ultimate source of economic power. The intellectual creations protected through patents, trade marks, copyrights etc constitute often a huge part of the companies' intangible assets. READ MORE