Challenges to Intellectual Property Rights from Information and Communication Technologies, Nanotechnologies and Microelectronics

Abstract

Information and communication technologies, nanotechnologies and microelectronics are progressively challenging the current state of intellectual property rights. This is related to the economic features underlying these technologies. The directions of changes in intellectual property rights are found to require further coping with the overall chain of innovation and with the uncertainty that can be embedded in the new trends of technological development.