implementation of the Community Patent (COMPAT). The econometric results and simulations presented in this paper suggest that, thanks … relative patenting costs for applicants while generating more income for the European Patent Office and most national patent … offices. The loss of economic rents (€400 million would be lost by patent attorneys, translators and lawyers) and the drop of …

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 …

The progression toward reevaluating patent validity in the administrative, rather than judicial, setting became overtly … substitutionary in the America Invents Act. No longer content to encourage court litigants to rely on Patent Office expertise for … emergent border between court and agency power in the U.S. patent system. By design, the border is not absolute. Concurrent …

The paper compares and contrasts the patent-based indicators, traditionally used to assess a country’s technological … being misleading. Empirically, the paper is based on the statistical information on patent activity of the top-10 patenting … countries. It concludes with a clear demonstration of the need to employ a complex of patent-related indicators to make …

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 …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

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

Article I USPTO’s patent invalidation power. A number of these challenges remain pending today. This article addresses several …

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 …