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

Many scholars have wrestled with what I call the “first-order question” in patent law: What policies should we adopt to … about promoting innovation? I argue that empirical progress in patent law depends on greater policy diversity (rather than … spillovers from local policies. Instead, patent policymakers should adopt a third way between uniformity and local control …

. It will also question whether biopharmaceutical firms have upheld their end of the patent bargain by adequately …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political …

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative … system of global patent protection paired with domestic price subsidies, and only intersovereign transfers can achieve a …

We investigate how international patent activity enables firms from emerging economies to thrive in the global … marketplace. We match Chinese customs data to US patent records, and leverage the quasi-random assignment of USPTO patent … examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful …

then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status … of two investigational medical treatments: remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir. It then presents various patent …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing …. It also turns out that the perceived effectiveness of a patent depends on a firm's size, theinnovation type and … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …

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 …