in it, drawing a portrait of contemporary capitalism in which the grip of law threatens the pioneers of innovation … for postgraduate students and researchers of the economics of innovation and IP law. Its original empirical analysis will … also prove insightful to industrial economists, policymakers, IP lawyers and innovation managers in cultural and creative …

of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to … those already offering such protection the situation offers a unique opportunity to examine the incentive role of patent … provides a baseline' against which future research activity can be compared once the new global patent regime is fully …

J. Halbert (2007), 'The World Intellectual Property Organization: Past, Present and Future', Journal of the Copyright … TRIPS Agreement', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 6 (1), 155-89 -- Ruth L. Okediji (2003), 'Public Welfare and the …), 'The Political Economy of the South Africa-United States Patent Dispute', Journal of World Intellectual Property, 2 (6 …

, and the consequences of the decision taken by the South for welfare in the North and for efficiency of the world … producer selling some good to an integrated world market. In this competition, only the Northern firm has the ability to … conduct R&D in order to lower its production costs, but the Southern firm can imitate costlessly if patent protection for …

As countries reform their patent laws to be in compliance with the Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights Agreement …, an important question is how increased patent protection will affect drug prices in low-income countries. Using …

. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from … innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in …-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays …

Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of … years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to … improve on counts in studies which require a measure of the extent of innovation. A simple renewal based weighting scheme is …

It is widely recognised that many copyright issues are also economic issues. As a result the level of interest in the … economics of copyright continues to grow. This carefully edited book presents a selection of the most important recent … contributions to a wide range of economic topics on copyright. These include the copyright term, infringement issues, administration …