. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

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 … included in FTAs that impose TRIPS-Plus requirements. Because these protections may be additional hurdles to generic …

advantage of the TRIPS-induced law change to empirically estimate the impact of patent duration on innovation. I find evidence … for an increase in innovation due to patent term extension following TRIPS. Both patent counts and citation … attempt to empirically estimate its response to a major change to patent duration, from the TRIPS agreement …

extreme urgency" within the meaning of Article 31(b) of the TRIPS Agreement. Some legislations, such as European competition …