study provides three new insights: (a) R&D expenditure yields more patents in the USA but this is due to Europe's superior …This paper examines the idea that the USA has outshined Europe in the race for new medicines as a result of a flight of … business R&D expenditure to the USA. It adopts a methodology that accounts for R&D price inflation, considers the role of both …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … their quest into the judicial treatment of patents in different industry sectors. They present an in-depth commentary on … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to …

technological synthesis within the broader economy. Using data on patents and patent citations obtained from the PATSTAT …-CRIOS database, covering all patent applications made to the European Patent Office (EPO), we try to model the systemic nature of …

two facets of patents, can a meaningful response to the current emerging market patent tsunami be developed … paper will discuss the question from a European perspective, and investigate what impact emerging market patents may have on … affect emerging market patent systems.The paper will conclude that the discussions about the current surge of emerging market …

to ‘inclusive patents’. A patent should be seen as a duty-bearing privilege, especially in areas which are vital for our …-bound protection for gene patents) and collaborative licensing (e.g. genetic patent pools and clearinghouses single genes or gene … panels) may help overcome patent thickets. All such measures will establish ‘inclusive patents’, fuelling ‘smart’ innovations …

Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by …