Patent protection and technology transfer in less-developed countries: reappraisal of the legal framework for producing and transmitting knowledge

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6626363

Silverstein, D

Although the less-developed countries (LDCs) are actively engaged in reforming their domestic patent laws and are vigorously pressing for important changes in the international patent regime, it is noteworthy that none has either abandoned its patent laws or withdrawn from the Paris Convention. This fact suggests that these countries believe there is some merit in maintaining a domestic patent system and in continuing participation in an international patent order. But, is this assumption justified. In general, the theme of this study is that the success of the Western patent system as a stimulus to technological innovation and industrialization can be attributed, at least in part, to a special combination of social, political, and economic circumstances. Because this combination conditions may not exist in contemporary LDCs, or even in modern Western societies, there is no basis for the generally held expectation that the Western intellectual property system will provide the proper stimulus to scientific, technological, and commercial activity.

• Research Organization: Tufts Univ., Medford, MA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6626363
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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