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  2. Criticism of patents - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary arguments have focused on ways that patents can slow innovation by: blocking researchers' and companies' access to basic, enabling technology, and particularly following the explosion of patent filings in the 1990s, through the creation of "patent thickets"; wasting productive time and resources fending off enforcement of low-quality patents that should not have existed ...

  3. Intellectual property - Wikipedia

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    Jewish law includes several considerations whose effects are similar to those of modern intellectual property laws, though the notion of intellectual creations as property does not seem to exist—notably the principle of Hasagat Ge'vul (unfair encroachment) was used to justify limited-term publisher (but not author) copyright in the 16th ...

  4. Patent troll - Wikipedia

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    In international law and business, patent trolling or patent hoarding is a categorical or pejorative term applied to a person or company that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art, [1] often through hardball legal tactics (frivolous litigation, vexatious litigation, strategic lawsuits against public ...

  5. Intellectual property infringement - Wikipedia

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    An intellectual property (IP) infringement is the infringement or violation of an intellectual property right. There are several types of intellectual property rights, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial designs, plant breeders rights [1] and trade secrets. Therefore, an intellectual property infringement may for instance be one ...

  6. Criticism of copyright - Wikipedia

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    Criticism of copyright, or anti-copyright sentiment, is a dissenting view of the current state of copyright law or copyright as a concept. Critics often discuss philosophical, economical, or social rationales of such laws and the laws' implementations, the benefits of which they claim do not justify the policy's costs to society.

  7. The Globalization of Intellectual Property Rights - Wikipedia

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    The agreements’ foundational areas included non-discrimination, national treatment, and the right of priority. [2] The non-discrimination idea gives foreign inventors the right to enter the market of a country also under the agreement, and national treatment protects the fair and equal treatment of that inventor.

  8. Censorship by copyright - Wikipedia

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    In the context of American legislation, censorship by copyright has been said to violate the First Amendment; such abuse of copyright is supposed to be limited by fair use, but fair use has been found to be difficult to enforce due to chilling effects of copyright litigation and disparity of power between copyright holders and those seeking ...

  9. Libertarian perspectives on intellectual property - Wikipedia

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    Accordingly, "intellectual property rights" are enforced by the state through violence. [3] On this basis, LPR writes in its programme that it intends to repeal the section of the Civil Code of Russia , as well as the articles of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses and Criminal Code of Russia that provide for sanctions ...