other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … included in FTAs that impose TRIPS-Plus requirements. Because these protections may be additional hurdles to generic …

physical in order to be technical. Despite such ambiguity, patent law throughout the world is arguably founded on the idea that …The patent law regimes of the United States and Europe are ambiguous regarding whether or not the subject matter of … defining technology; and it confounds contemporary decision-making by patent offices on the patentability of inventions and by …

between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

over-inclusive. If an invention is “new, useful, and non-obvious,” critics ask, why should it be denied patent incentives …

Substance of the Patent Law' of April 6, 2012 (see SSRN eLibrary), which comprises inter alia my constructive proposal to take … into use in patenting the inventions the systematic and idea-centered model of legal thought as the real world paradigm … 'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years …

implementation and administration of their patent systems.When the world's major patent systems first developed into their present …As a framework regulation for innovation markets, the patent system needs to be tailored to the innovation process … efficient functionality of the patent system as an innovation policy tool, patent rights ought to be defined, justified and …