countries with information that can serve as guidance for the examination of the claims contained in relevant patents or patent …This paper provides an analysis of patents covering selected antibodies and vaccines used in the treatment or … prevention of COVID-19. The aim of the report is to support national patent offices and interested parties in developing …

and incentives of patent examiners, applicants, and third parties. In this paper, we provide an overview of patent … patent quality. In response to these quality issues a recent patent literature has emerged, that investigates the behavior … procedures, patent systems and a survey of the new economic literature on patent systems. Both theoretical and empirical papers …

Most patent systems allow applicants to defer patent examination by some time. Deferred examination was introduced in … the 1960s, first at the Dutch patent office and subsequently in many other countries, as a response to mounting backlogs … of unexamined patent applications. Some applicants allow the examination option to lapse and never request examination …

motivations to invent, and the actual use and economic value of the patents. …

Ascertaining whether patents encourage invention necessitates understanding the incentives inventors respond to. The … Industrial Revolution is hotly debated. This paper's contribution is to examine the incentives to patent, and the characteristics … of patentees, by observing the entire population of British patents granted up to the patent reforms of 1852. I find …