other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

Tracing back to the Venetian patent law of the 1400s the motivation underlying the grant of the patent was to encourage … society. A patent generally gives its owner the right to prevent third parties from exploiting that same invention or creation …. As a reward or encouragement, it empowers the patent owner to secure a ‘producer surplus’ above that which would be …

creates a shock for the patent holder but also its competitors who cite that patent: invalidation wipes out portfolio … synergies and the necessity to have defensive patents. This paper shows that Federal Circuit patent litigations affect the … invalidated patent. This observation supports that many patents are renewed for defensive purposes. The portfolio size also …

The policy concerns intersecting patent law and cryptographic technology relate to the technology’s beneficial uses in … embeddable cryptography facilitates its supply. Patent law for several decades has waxed and waned in its embrace of software …. This article documents the growth of cryptographic patenting. Then, in light of this growth and patent law’s resulting …

an increasingly important appropriability mechanism for software – patent protection. One mode of FOSS licensing uses a … have differing appropriability implications apart from patent law. Patent protection complicates the FOSS licensing system … concludes by illustrating these possibilities with two exemplary areas of patent law doctrine likely to be at issue in such …

entrants. Focusing primarily on pharmaceutical innovation, we analyze various policy interventions to solve this … underinvestment problem. In particular, we describe a new approach for a "value-based" patent system, which ties patent protection to … an underlying invention's social value, and we show how such a system could incentivize socially optimal innovation …

prevention of COVID-19. The aim of the report is to support national patent offices and interested parties in developing … countries with information that can serve as guidance for the examination of the claims contained in relevant patents or patent … applications. The antibody combination considered for the patent analysis in this paper are Casirivimab and Imdevimab. The vaccines …