five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

the current European patent system, one of the most advanced, complex, and contested economic systems in Europe. The … conclusions elaborate on some normative implications regarding the weaknesses of the European patent system, and underline the …

, is their call for a more responsible behaviour of patent owners in the exercise of their patent rights. In light of the … the current patent system, there is a need to reconceptualize patent rights, all the more so in the life sciences area. A … patent can no longer be viewed as a title giving (almost) complete freedom to exclude others from use, but rather as a …

Substance of the Patent Law' of April 6, 2012 (see SSRN eLibrary), which comprises inter alia my constructive proposal to take … 'invention' for the 'vital functions' of the Patent Law. The mentioned proposal for use the RWP basis on my circa 25 years … periodic watch of developments of the leading patent systems. In order to explain and understand better RWP itself, legal …

This report provides the first edition of a European patent indicator for access to genetic resources and benefit … (Report EEA/BSS/08/012). The patent indicator identifies biodiversity and traditional knowledge within the international … patent system using the International Patent Classification and text mining. Statistics on patent trends are provided for …

forward citations patents can receive at the European Patent Office. While a patent can be cited as non-infringing state of … the art, it can also be cited because it threatens the novelty of patent applications ("blocking citations"). Empirical …. This finding adds to the patent value literature by showing that different types of patent citations carry different …

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 …

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

affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market … patent filings reveal a fundamental tension between two different patent discourses: a more conventional/legal narrative … employing patents as policy tools to stimulate innovation, and a more contemporary/economic approach looking at patents as …

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 … physical in order to be technical. Despite such ambiguity, patent law throughout the world is arguably founded on the idea that …