Property regimes

The pro-intellectual property rights team has worked for 20 or more years to strengthen national and international intellectual property regimes (Drahos and Braithwaite 2003), especially via the WTO Agreement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) (WTO 1994). Even after consolidating a worldwide baseline of intellectual... 

Danzon, P. M. and A. Towse. 2005. Theory and Implementation of Differential Pricing of Pharmaceuticals. In International Public Goods and Transfer of Technology Under a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime, edited by K. E. Maskus and J. H. Reichman, 425-456. New York Cambridge University Press. 

The resulting labor rules, property regime, and settlement pattern did in fact resemble a cross between plantation or estate agriculture on one hand and feudal servitude on the other. 

Dimensional analysis is commonly applied to complex materials and processes to assess the significance of some phenomenon or property regime. It enables analysis of situations that cannot be described by an equation however, there is no a priori guarantee that a dimensionless analysis will be physically meaningful. Dimensionless quantities are combinations of variables that lack units (i.e., pure numbers), used to categorize the relationship of physical quantities and their interdependence in order to anticipate the behavior. Several dimensionless quantities relevant to polymer rheology and processing are... 

The research and technology development process Identifying and assessing technologies Technology development roadmaps Intellectual property regimes and patents... 

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