linked with the evolution of modern patent law and patents are pillars of biotechnology industry. The context for patenting … biotechnology inventions in the U.S., Europe, Japan and China. Doctrines and practice regarding patent eligibility, utility, novelty … requirements, including requirement for patent disclosure of the source of genetic resources in China, will be highlighted …

The patent system has gained political attention in both Europe and the US as the core regulatory regime of an … increasingly knowledge-based economy. Europe and the US alike have recently engaged in a series of reform efforts of their patent … greater attention to issues of innovation and competition. However, the complexity of the systems, the asymmetric distribution …

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

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

Although patent litigation has become increasingly global, with litigants earning billion-dollar verdicts and seeking … litigants are increasingly drawn, and to which policy makers interested in harmonizing the U.S. patent system look in vain for … database including nearly 9,000 patent suits from seven of the largest and most judicially-active countries in the European …

Today it is generally accepted that innovation, knowledge creation, and the diffusion of new knowledge are crucial … factors for economic growth at the regional, national, as well as supra-national level, and that successful innovation is …