policy levers, reveals that rather than systematically expanding the patent system to accommodate biotechnology inventions … and stimulating innovation in the biotechnology sector, some policy levers narrow down the patent potential for …In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of …

To study how governments can improve the quality of patent screening, we develop an integrative framework incorporating … four main policy instruments: patent office examination, pre- and post-grant fees, and challenges in the courts. We show …. Simulations of the model, calibrated on U.S. patent and litigation data, indicate that patenting is socially excessive and the …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

in spillover benefits which can provide dynamic efficiency gains to offset the static efficiency losses of the patent … decisions reducing the quantum of inventiveness required in Australia for grant of a standard patent. It commences with a short … grant of a monopoly for an invention, one can assess whether the legal proxies adopted are likely to sufficiently mirror the …

past innovations. With full patent protection, followers can catch up to the leader in their industry either by making the … simple form of licensing. Second, we show that full patent protection is not optimal from the viewpoint of maximizing the …

, biotechnology, and biomaterials, subfields were built through a keyword-driven approach to capture the bioeconomy. We conducted a … Federal subsidy data, topic-specific patents and publications, as well as the overall patent and publication activity. The …

To understand how to shape United States patent law to further the development and dissemination of biotechnology, it … advances that drive biotechnology forward. Consequently, over-emphasis on patent protection risks displacing public sector … values that have played key roles in biotechnology's development. Although patent law appears to have facilitated innovation …

construct a novel dataset of companies that have declared at least one patent as essential for an IEEE standard (the treatment … not declared a patent as essential to IEEE (the control group). Using a difference-in-differences approach, I provide … the change. My results show that more restrictive patent policies at the SDO level decrease the innovation effort of firms …