innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through … licensing and enforcement. Research patents would impose minimal administrative costs on the patent system and ultimately …

diffusion decreases both in technology imitation among innovators and in technology adoption by entrepreneurs. Patents are an …

This paper analyzes how the optimal strength of patents on basic inventions is affected by financial constraints on the … and discourage the developer from exerting costly effort. Because of this, the distortions arising from patents on …

previous measures of patent scope (i.e. the number of patent classes, the number of citations made by future patents, and the … then demonstrate the power of this instrument by examining standard-essential patents. We show that an (exogenous …) diminishment of patent scope leads to patents being much less likely to be declared standard-essential …

There is increasing concern that overlapping patents in the field of genetics will create a costly and legally complex … field of genetics, notably with the patents pertaining to the SARS genome. In this review, we initially address the patent …