This paper examines the effect of mandatory pre-grant patent publications on the innovation of venture capital (VC … relative improvements in innovation outputs for companies whose pre-AIPA patent applications received more "revise and resubmit … thus suggest that pre-grant patent publications generate larger benefits when they can more effectively reduce such …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that … potentially lessen incentives for innovation and on abuse of dominance/single firm exclusionary practices in IP-intensive network … importance for economic advancement and prosperity, having a direct bearing on innovation, growth and the diffusion of new …

innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic model of a patent race. The result generally supports the …The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents …

specific therapy. This particular field brings along the gene related patent applications. In recent years, ethical sides …, policy considerations on patent applications in gene sequences, and gene related diagnostic and treatment methods led to many … debates among biotech/pharma companies, patent stakeholders, researchers, clinicians, and patients. Although the patent system …