addresses from a patent perspective some representative concerns relating to patents that appear to be prevalent in the …

The European Union has implemented demand push and technology pull policies to foster innovation on the energy and … rarely treats product and process innovation separately and product quality is, in the best case, exogenous. We develop a … dynamic multi-sector CGE model that distinguishes between R&D-based process innovation for all firms, endogenous product …

), decreased clarity, and questionable validity. Such patents allegedly diminish the incentives for innovation due to increased … quality over the past decade or two has supposedly led to granting patents of increased breadth (or “overly broad” patents …

), decreased clarity, and questionable validity. Such patents allegedly diminish the incentives for innovation due to increased … quality over the past decade or two has supposedly led to granting patents of increased breadth (or “overly broad” patents …

. Although it was long agreed that the purpose of granting patents is to reward invention, today many scholars instead attempt to … could potentially flourish with just the opposite policies—narrower patents granted later in time—and so might actually be …

becomes possible? History reveals that the Patent Office and the courts will continue to deny patents for a long time … innovation …

innovation. Yet, denying patents on research inputs can frustrate patent law’s broad goal to protect and promote advances in … optimal incentives for innovation. For chemical inventions, the courts deem them unpatentable if the chemical lacks a … patent.” This regime would allow inventors to obtain patents on research inputs and extract their full value through …