the introduction of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980 in the US. The Act allowed universities to retain patent rights over …

output. Research units that source research ideas from small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) patent more, but not more …

This paper develops a methodology to compare the quality of examination services in different patent offices. Quality … is defined as the extent to which patent offices comply with their patentability conditions in a transparent way. The … of patent offices in Europe (EPO), Japan (JPO) and the US (USPTO) shows that their operational designs differ …

then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status … of two investigational medical treatments: remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir. It then presents various patent …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

This paper examines patent protection in an endogenous-growth model. Our aim is twofold. First, we show how the patent … policies discussed by the recent patent-design literature can influence R&D in the endogenous-growth framework, where the role … of the patent-design literature. In a general-equilibrium model, both incentives to innovate and monopoly distortions …

This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … shows that in this set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy …

Incentives and assistance provided by TTOs, university policies, patent legislation and scientific disciplines are …

this paper we exploit a novel dataset of patent applications filed in Germany between 1995-2005, which allows us to … identify if a patent application stems from a subsidized project or not. We use a variety of patent indicators to elucidate to … what extent successful subsidized and non-subsidized R&D projects within the same firm differ. Results show that patent …