Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … mechanisms for medium inventions, and patent their most important innovations. This result reestablishes the traditional view …

British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract …

on the enjoyment of fundamental rights while granting injunctions on patents. This paper argues that the Indian courts … public interest aspect and human rights implications while granting injunctions in patent litigation. Moreover, it asserts … that the courts should exercise prudence in granting injunctive relief in cases involving patent infringement, and take …

mechanisms (IPPMs) in the formation of research partnerships. Patents are the most frequently used IPPM to protect both …

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the … government, in addition to taxes and transfers, controls the fraction of innovations that are granted patents. The model predicts …

innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial … exploration that would otherwise accrue to the entrepreneurs. Stronger patent protection will increase the incentive to do R&D and … generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further …

forward protection reduces the rate of innovation and imposing a nonobviousness requirement reduces R&D spending. It is shown … that full protection against imitation, granted independently of the size of the lead, maximizes the average innovation …

the costs and benefits of the patent system, the use of patents as innovation indicators, and the need for more research …The role patents play for innovation is not clear, but patenting activity has increased in the last decades. This … article reviews the empirical evidence on traditional and novel roles of patents to assess their impacts on innovation in …