National and Regional Patent Administration in Small to Medium-Sized States in the Global Economy

  • Drahos, Peter (PI)
  • Werner, Janet L (CoI)

    Project: Research

    Project Details

    Description

    Patents and patent administration are key to the rules of the game in the knowledge economy. The study will analyse how a group of smaller national patent offices including Australia s, are responding to the agenda of patent harmonization that is being led by the US, European and Japanese patent offices. What is the impact of this agenda on Australia's interests? Should Australia take the lead in pushing for a regional patent organization? Using sociolegal techniques, the study will answer these and other key questions facing Australian policy makers. The work of patent offices within APEC, ASEAN and the Pacific Island Forum (for example, NZ, Fiji, and China)will be the subject of in-depth fieldwork and analysis.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date19/10/0431/12/07

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