2.4 Exercise of Patent: Assignment v. Licensing; Compulsory Licensing

Assignment = the ownership's transfer (the sale's totality — the registered-assignment's-and-the successor's recording); Licensing = the use's permission (the exclusivity's spectrum: the exclusive-vs-non-exclusive; the territory-and-field's-and-royalty's terms; the licence's contract-law (the Contract Act's faces) and the competition-law limits (the refusal-to-license's-and-the tying's debates — the Competition-Law (LAW5809, Semester 9)'s interface)); the franchise's-and-the technology-transfer's bundles. The compulsory licence = the state's forced-permission (the patent's sovereignty's brake): the grounds' catalogue (the non-working/insufficient-working; the public-interest-and-national-emergency; the health's-and-environment's faces; the anti- competitive's remedy; the dependent-patents' cross-licence); the TRIPS' Article-31's disciplines (the case-by-case's authorisation; the efforts-to-obtain's-and-the exception; the scope-and- duration's limits; the predominantly-domestic-supply's-and-the remuneration's obligations; the export's-and-the health's Article-31bis (the 2001-Doha-and-2003-decision's line — the pandemic's- and-the access's modern faces)); the Nepal's-and-the LDC's positions (the transition's-and-the health-flexibilities' faces).