. 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 …

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 …

the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent … stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization …

how, and the extent to which a precautionary approach could be crystallized in the intellectual property (IP) patent …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

The exclusivity of the right conferred on a patent right holder operates as a temporary monopoly because competition by …, is prohibited for the period that the patent right subsists. Given the fact that the end result of a patent right is a … to increase. The effect of a patent on the price of patented medicine and the prohibition of the production of cheaper …

resolve the access problems. The comment concludes that the key patent problem is the transfer of know-how and that developing … new ideas about addressing these patent know-how transfers is the presently unaddressed challenge …

a plausibly exogenous change to patent duration. Second, the nature of the law change meant that the patent duration … change was heterogeneous across patent classes. Using both patent counts and citation-weighted counts, I am able to take … advantage of the TRIPS-induced law change to empirically estimate the impact of patent duration on innovation. I find evidence …