...’ inventions receive patent status, has become obsolete under current rules. A radical change is, therefore, an actual priority. The practice to be followed regarding computer program patentability in Europe has been long discussed, but significant differences remain between the EPO approach and national...

... to international patenting restrictions, there is only one manufacturer of TnT assays (Roche diagnostics). There are multiple immunoassays for cTnI produced by different manufacturers and the different immunoassays use antibodies directed at different epitopes on the troponin molecule. Owing to the current lack...

... Source Software community are prejudiced greatly. The current regime is not fundamentally incompatible with software, however, and as such features of it could and should be retained in the creation of a sui generis IP right. Practical significance Much of today's software industry is driven...

...James A.M. Armstrong; Anuraag Guleria; Keith Girling Table 1 Currently available indices of oxygenation separated into that based on arterial oxygen content and those based on arterial oxygen tension Content based Q_s/Q_t Venous admixture...

... against the patentability of medicines and other healthcare subject matter. In reviewing the key issues raised in this debate, the author suggests that the time has come for those jurisdictions that do not currently permit the patenting of methods of treatment should opt for a system in which safeguards...

... for fatherhood JEL classification: B52 currently heterodox approaches (institutional, evolutionary), J16 Demographic economics (economic of gender) * I thank Paula England, Jeremy Freese, Richard L. Simpson and Pierre L. van den Berghe for their comments on earlier drafts. Socio-Economic Review (2004) 2, 371...

...SN Dwivedi; KR Sundaram For the present study, two data sets were used: (i) all currently married women who were neither pregnant nor had continuing post-partum amenorrhoea (PPA); and (ii) all currently married women with at least one child who were neither pregnant nor had continuing PPA. Only...

... databases.3 There are General practice computers have been widely used in the United Kingdom for the last 10 years and there are over 30 other smaller ‘privately owned’ general practice databases that different systems currently available. The commercially have been used for research. These are often...

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...0 10 08 2000 The Brazilian non-serial capital goods sector is currently the largest in the developing world after that of China and is easily the largest in Latin America. The rapid ascendancy of the sector to its current position has been associated with policies that led to extensive state...

..., and similar to that of Argentina and Mexico. The service sector currently accounts for approximately 60 per cent of the total economic activity. and agriculture for less than l 0 per cent Copper is still a major component of total exports, but the very rapid growth of nontraditional exports since 1984 has...

... as they are spoken, and since we shall encounter several exotic scripts in the language sketches, it will not do to omit discussing the various scripts of the world. Here the emphasis will be on the typology of the writing systems that are currently in use rather than on the historical development of writing...

...0 04 10 1990 Phonological accounts of modem Indian languages are currently entering what may be thought of as their third period. In this reckoning, the first period would be the ‘Pre-Structuralist ‘, in which the indigenous orthographies were taken as the basis for description; wellknown...

... argue, on a curious symbiosis, and both their definitions (and therefore their relationship) are currently in a state of evolution and flux. They are the concepts of democracy and risk. The following chapters explore their present interrelationship as a defining aspect of modern political and social...

...0 29 10 2009 This chapter is concerned with an exploration of the principles of sentencing, and how those principles currently operate within English law. It does not provide a detailed description of the wide range of sentencing powers which are currently available to the courts. Nor does...

... both mentally disordered males and females. Before the passing of the SOA 1956 (commencement date 1.1.1957) there were several statutes dealing with offences against the mentally disordered. In each there was a separate definition of individuals, currently described as mentally disordered. In the main...

... between the plaintiffs and defendants, and if they can overcome statutes of limitations defenses. The people who perpetrated the crimes of slavery are gone, and their estates are distributed. A few corporations survive, and a small amount of the money made from slavery might be traceable to currently...

...0 24 10 1996 The Australian vertebrate fauna presents a profound challenge to conservation biology (Table 27-1). For marsupials alone, 10 species have become extinct over the 200 years since European colonization and a further 27 species are currently regarded· as endangered or vulnerable...

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