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 …

China has a wide-range of patent-specific and other patent-related policies in-place, many of which are at least …

implementation of the Community Patent (COMPAT). The econometric results and simulations presented in this paper suggest that, thanks … relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and most national patent … offices. The loss of economic rents (€400 million would be lost by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers) and the drop of …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …

in time to grant of a patent when applied by domestic versus foreign applicants in China and India. A delay in time to … grant on the basis of nationality violates the TRIPs agreement. Further, delay in grant of a patent generates dead …, however India does exactly the opposite, indicating that there is a significant variation in patent examination times across …

, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I … followed by a review of recent work by myself and co‐authors on regional patent systems, the impact of patents on firm …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

We use an exogenous change in German Federal law to examine how entrepreneurial support and the ownership of patent … of patent rights from university researchers to their universities. Based on a novel researcher-level panel database that … increase in start-up companies by university researchers. The shift in patent rights may have strengthened the relationship …

This paper provides new evidence about the budgetary consequences - for patent offices - of the coexistence of the … forthcoming Unitary Patent (UP) with the current European Patent (EP). Simulation results illustrate a dilemma between high UP … renewal fees to ensure enough financial income for all national patent offices (NPOs) and low UP renewal fees to make the UP …