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A Bad Climate Trade-off
The high priests of climate change are wrapping up their latest meeting today in Poznan, Poland, where the United Nations is hosting a conference...
A change is patently needed
Patents are a private property right designed to incentivise innovation. But the incentives that patents provide for pharmaceutical innovation have...
How not to halt progress
More than a hundred countries met in Accra last week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in...
Attacking patents is a way to halt progress on climate accord
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012....
Tariffs, not patents, hurt low-carbon innovation
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra, Ghana, this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in...
EU's cheese naming proposals are on the nose
It's almost enough to make you choke on your Aussiemade camembert. The European Union is trying to use complex intellectual property rights rules...