This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of … towards the strategic use of patents. But the development of patenting strategies continued even after 2000 with semiconductor … companies preferred the production of valuable patents, but patenting strategies can differ vastly even among companies …

Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The … exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a …

-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in …

Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human … controversies surrounding patents on plant traits and on human genes, and the growing discontent with some undesirable effects of … to invent and share. In other words: patents may be looked at as tools to reshape exclusions into inclusions, giving rise …

Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical …

as owners of real estate because patents were "property." Thus, by definition, patentees enjoyed the same rights as those … interest. Second, patents are now defined as securing only a right to exclude, and this has unhinged patent conveyance …

Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big … patenting costs, patentability standards, and the fact that patents provide protection in competitive situations where secrecy … that patents are crucial to provide R&D incentives and is yet consistent with main empirical findings on the issue. …

Although patents are the prototypical type of protection that most people consider applicable to protecting drugs …, patents are just the most-established and well-known method available to protect drugs from competition. However, there are …