This paper explores several characteristics of patents in the biotechnology field, comparing and contrasting them to … patents in other fields of research. We find that biotechnology patents face a longer lag between application and grant date … patent, with a special weight on academic or scientific literature, foreign patents, and a tight circle of research fields …

claimed invention based on a combination or modification of a prior art reference. Sri Lanka, as a developing country, should … look at the development that has taken place in other jurisdictions and adapt the patent law to local conditions when …-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and its biotechnology/pharmaceutical policy guidelines. This approach that is …

and Biotechnology will be of prime interest to lawyers and patent attorneys, scientists and researchers, business managers … very thought-provoking analysis of patent law and biotechnology and asks a very serious question: can a 19th century patent … biotechnology from micro-organisms, plants, and animals to human genes and stem cells. It makes a unique theoretical contribution to …

Because of the research and investment intensive nature, biotechnology has a very high importance in the light of … patent regime. Issues surrounding ownership of genes and genetically modified humans, moral and identity dangers inherent in … granting patents on biotechnology inventions …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

, alternative patent: the inclusive patent. The inclusive patent is perceived as a one-sided right geared to include rather than to …. The inclusive patent is further conceived as a registration patent obtainable at low cost. The inclusive patent regime may … be developed as a semi-codified regime where the inclusive patent entitlement is provided by law and the open source …

inventors, the technological profiles of firms and patent value. In particular, this paper focuses on the value of academic … patent belongs to a core or non-core technology relative to the firm's technological profile neutralizes the premium of non … industrial invention …