Drivas, Kyriakos; Panagopoulos, Andreas - In: European Journal of Innovation Management 19 (2016) 4, pp. 528-546
Purpose The authors argue that the patent term change introduced in Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in the USA inadvertently offered a metric of self-valuation of patents at the time of filing, affirming the ability of Drugs and Chemical patents to offer greater R&D...