Intellectual Property Rights: Open Access

Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem

Publications

• Review Article
  Access to Medicines Implications of the South Africa Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act No 51, 2008
  Author(s): Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem Joelle Dountio Ofimboudem
  
  The Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Financed Research and Development Act No 51, 2008 (the IPR Act) was passed in 2008 as a result of a request for such a law by the South African DST. According to the DST, such a law was necessary for a number of reasons. Firstly, there was a significant leakage of intellectual property resulting from public-funded research in South Africa into overseas jurisdictions. Secondly, the South African government could not exercise any walk-in (march-in) rights as it was constrained by the fact that different research institutions in South Africa had different approaches to managing intellectual property generated from public-funded research. .. View More»
  

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