Global Intellectual Property Rights
Subtitle: Knowledge, Access and Development
Contributors: Peter Drahos (Editor); Ruth Mayne (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780333990285
Subjects: Development studies; Intellectual property, copyright & patents; Political economy; International Relations - General; Intellectual property (Interna; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Textbooks; Business/Economics; Political; Intellectual Property - General; International; Law / International; Law : Intellectual Property - General; Political Science / International Relations; Intellectual property (International law)
First sentence: The popular conception of the patent system is one of mad inventors with ludicrous inventions and equally absurd expectations that the product of their years of pottering in the garden shed will change the world.