We argue that, in the pharmaceutical industry, excessive patent duration can deter investments in innovative treatments … then show that reducing current duration always breaks down market discipline, and so does an increase in duration for …

crisis has brought the optimal design of pharmaceutical patent policy to the fore. In this paper we evaluate patent policy in … the US pharmaceutical industry. We estimate the effect of patent length and scope on generic entry prior to the expiration … of new drug patents using two quasi-experimental approaches: one based on changes in patent laws and another on the …

powerful strategic tool: the offers that he makes to the patent holder will affect the royalty rate that the Court may adopt as … availability of injunctions, the holder of a sufficiently weak patent will end up accepting below FRAND rates, in particular when … sufficiently strong patent will always end up in litigation by rejecting offers below FRAND. This arises in particular when the …

stage of the patenting process and the interplay with the patent office. This is followed by considering the perspective of … the patent and trademark offices (PTOs), in particular, acknowledging the limited resources that are available to PTOs … ; pending patents ; innovation ; patent office overload ; patent inspection ; grant delays …

. Illustrative is the barrier against access to essential medicines caused by pharmaceutical patent protection under the WTO regime …

factors that influence the patent examination duration for approved oncology drugs in US. Pooled regression analysis was … total number of patents granted. The average of patent examination duration ranges 3.28 ± 2.15 years. The examination …Patent document is the excellent source for understanding recent invention or innovation of the most recent …

A patent only protects an innovator from others producing the same product, but it does not protect him from others … within-patent competition, which results from production of the same product, and betweenpatent competition, which results … effects of intellectual property regulations on within -patent competition by showing how protecting innovative returns from …