2.2 Justifications on Protection of Patent

The case's four faces (the exam's list): (1) the incentive-to-invent (the utilitarian bargain — the R&D's finance-and-the risk's reward); (2) the disclosure's bargain (the publish-to-protect trade — the secret's-antidote (the alternative's-and-the trade-secret's world of U6.3)); (3) the commercialisation's engine (the investment's-and-the licensing's security — the lab-to-market's bridge); (4) the development's-and-the public's balance (the access-to-medicines' debate; the compulsory-licensing's flexibilities (2.4); the innovation's diffusion — the critics'-and-the defenders' war (the exam's critical note)).