between the propensity to jointly own a patent and proximity in the product market; b) joint patents are associated with less …

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The …

Patent law in Europe is characterized by a historic rivalry between EU and non-EU patent systems. The EU for decades …, the Commission was determined to push ahead with the patent plans even at the cost of compromise that severely damaged the … functionality of the patent system. The result was the 2012 Unitary Patent Package, which has since been cleared by the CJEU twice …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that …

Can patent protection and product market competition complement each other in enhancing incentives to innovate? In this … product market competition interact with the strength of patent rights. We provide empirical evidence of innovation responding … positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The …

European Union (ECJ) has found that the EU centralized patent litigation system recently proposed by the Council of the …-awaited EU patent litigation scheme (as envisaged in the Draft Agreement on the European and Community Patents Court). This blow …