) and patent-paper pairs providing insights into the determinants of the disclosure strategy of a firm. We find that patents …

scientist and (b) applied for (an eventually granted) patent with non-patent references, where these references are used …

existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2) May patent laws influence the direction - as opposed to the rate … to address problems with the current patent system: 3) How do patent pools, as a mechanism to mitigate litigation risks …

This paper studies how patent rights and price regulation affect how fast new drugs are launched in different countries … duration and content of patent and price control regimes. Price regulation strongly delays launch, while longer and more … extensive patent protection accelerates it. Health policy institutions, and economic and demographic factors that make markets …

pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent … office. Exploiting variation in the timing of patent decisions, we estimate that a molecule receiving a patent experienced an … by just one firm when the patent system began. Our results also show little impact on quantities sold or on the number of …

We examine whether the introduction of a patent commons, a special type of royalty free patent pool available to the … in the market and the extent to which patent ownership in the market is concentrated. …