model patent system, this study illustrates that it is possible to create a useful legal, policy, and institutional …

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 …

Though it lacked a patent system until 1985, China is now the world leader in patent filings and litigation. Despite … the meteoric rise of the Chinese patent system, many in the West believe that it acts primarily to facilitate local … protectionism rather than innovation. Recent high-profile patent suits filed by relatively unknown Chinese firms against high …

linked with the evolution of modern patent law and patents are pillars of biotechnology industry. The context for patenting … biotechnology inventions in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China. Doctrines and practice regarding patent eligibility, utility, novelty … requirements, including requirement for patent disclosure of the source of genetic resources in China, will be highlighted …