Tracing back to the Venetian patent law of the 1400s the motivation underlying the grant of the patent was to encourage … society. A patent generally gives its owner the right to prevent third parties from exploiting that same invention or creation …. As a reward or encouragement, it empowers the patent owner to secure a ‘producer surplus’ above that which would be …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political …

The literature on patent buyouts has focused on single-economy settings, where buyouts are welfare improving relative … system of global patent protection paired with domestic price subsidies, and only intersovereign transfers can achieve a …

fair and equitable treatment, and the interpretation of national patent law by domestic courts. Precisely because … treatment standard for patent law and domestic court interpretations? Our main conclusions are: first, that investment tribunals … should defer substantially to interpretations of patent law by domestic courts, limiting themselves to reviewing decisions …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status … of two investigational medical treatments: remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir. It then presents various patent …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and … patentability and infringement theory and practice and their possible interpretation in a 3D printing context, a set of different …

patent system. The indicators are based on a review of the International Patent Classification in use by patent offices …