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Supported by U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, under contract H-2357. ; "An information bulletin of the Community and Economic Development Task Force of the Urban Consortium." ; Bibliography: p. 24-27. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The Taiwanese Patent Act foresaw from its inception in 1944 compulsory licence (CL) and government use. The provisions on the former have been amended several times, moving away from the Paris Convention model, while provisions on the latter were revised once, only to narrow its scope. Overall speaking, the regime on compulsory licensing and government use is in regress and fails to fulfil its function of balancing public and private interests. Thus far in Taiwan, two CL have been granted and implemented with the second being annulled later, and only one government use has been granted and yet not implemented due to its precondition not being satisfied. The Fair Trade Commission has not yet seen CL as one of the "necessary corrective measures" of the Fair Trade Act, although it did find violation of the Fair Trade Act in the Philips CD-R case.

Smart disclosure involves providing consumers access to data in user friendly electronic formats, in order to fuel the creation of products and tools that benefit consumers, including tools that will help them make important marketplace decisions. While the Federal Government has promoted access to data for consumers for some time, the growth of the Internet as both a center of commerce and a source of information has made more effective and interactive data access possible. Smart disclosure has received increasing attention in recent years as a distinct policy approach that draws on digital t

While decentralisation, properly understood, implies that sub‐national government involves devolution of authority over revenues, recent experience fromPeru suggests that the canon system tends to create perverse incentives in encouraging open and democratic government at the local level. This is particularly the case in regions such asCusco, which benefit disproportionately from this system. Examination of experiences in four provinces ofCusco shows how – in the absence of a robust civil society – excessive funding tends to encourage clientelism and corruption rather than accountable and transparent administration.