other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

This paper explores the workings of the patent system in the context of the generation of new pharmaceutical products …. First it identifies the relevant characteristics of the patent system and its relation to the market. The paper concedes … that, in general, the patent system is probably the best way of generating new technology, in substantial part because that …

international laws and policies impacting access to medicine is a dynamic process in which competing patent perspectives (as well as … their confluence) play an important role. Whereas patent-owning companies are usually considered to dominate conversations …

. Patent owners should be compensated for both conservation efforts and valuable innovation … propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to … introductions is higher than previously suggested. More importantly, creating new patent rights is shown to be an inefficient and …

The patent system is a central tool in innovation policy. The prospect of monopolistic pricing conferred by patent … markups for patent-protected products. Using an original dataset that links a broad range of consumer products to the patents … that protect them, we study the impact of patent protection on product prices. The empirical strategy exploits exogenous …

India's trade-related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) compliant Patent (Amendment) Act 2005 saw the … transformation of its laws from a process patent regime to a product patent regime. The amendments have had a direct impact on India …'s generic drugs manufacturing sector, which was developed through the process patent regime introduced under the 1970 Act. The …