both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

intensity. Looking ahead, three factors suggest the patent system may affect financial services as it has electronics: (1) the …

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

Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties … shaping the patent policy on an international level are the patent offices of the United States of America, Japan and the …

: USA, Japan and Europe. In each economic area, we use information from two international patent systems to construct the … technological proximity for 240 international firms. In particular, we select firms’ patents from United States Patent and … Trademarks Office (USPTO) data and European Patent Office (EPO) data. In order to compute the technological proximity, we follow …

Between 1980 and 2001, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded over 8,000 patents on genes and genetic … to a variety of issues, including their relatively recent arrival into the patent realm, their grant of exclusivity over … factors, dealing directly with the application of patent laws, and policy factors, implicating problems of access, cost, and …

In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of … industry specific differences in the patent system from both a legal and economic perspective. The present article attempts to … that current European patent law holds substantial potential for technology-specific application. Even though the European …