The European Patent System is facing major challenges resulting from an extension of patentable subject matter leading to an increasing number of patent applications. The European Patent Office has responded with admirable flexibility, but continuing technological change and greater importance...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the causal effect of a recent attempt undertaken by the EPO to improve the quality of the patent granting process. To do so we examine a policy change that aimed at including the information revealed during the standardisation-setting process into the...

The abrupt nature of the COVID-19 pandemic sent the pharmaceutical industry on their heels in a race against time in procurement of a vaccine for the novel corona virus. Consequently, it has sparked off several issues and debates as to whether the research conducted by pharmaceuticals should...