innovation for their welfare effects. Its premise is that the enhancement of social welfare is included among the purposes of … competition and intellectual-property laws. It also assumes that innovation is a major contribution to long-run welfare. The paper … both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the …

. The purpose is to document the ways in which patent systems are products of battles over the economic surplus from … innovation. The features of these systems take shape as interests at different points in the production chain seek advantage in …-style patent systems with all their imperfections have come to dominate other methods of encouraging inventive activity. The essays …

specific therapy. This particular field brings along the gene related patent applications. In recent years, ethical sides …, policy considerations on patent applications in gene sequences, and gene related diagnostic and treatment methods led to many … debates among biotech/pharma companies, patent stakeholders, researchers, clinicians, and patients. Although the patent system …

In GSK v. Teva, the Federal Circuit (in a 2-1 ruling) found that Teva induced infringement of GSK's patent. While much … uses not covered by the patent. The Federal Circuit found that this long-recognized practice of skinny labeling could form …

of agreements by which brand-name drug companies pay generics to settle patent litigation and delay entering the market … of the patent" test applied by the dissent and several appellate courts — would have meant "game over" for challenges to …

Whether behavior relating to a patent thicket presents an antitrust issue is a nuanced question. But a recent ruling … highlights its errors analyzing sham behavior, patent settlements, and antitrust injury …

This article uses the FTC's October 2003 white paper on the U.S. patent system as the point of departure for a plenary … system's two most fundamental economic questions: (1) what things are patentable, and (2) what a patent protects. In each … case it demonstrates, by detailed reference to current U.S. patent law, how far the U.S. system is from providing clear …