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 …

This paper analyses the development of universities' patent applications in Germany before and after the abolition of … the 'professors' privilege' in 2002. By means of a database with all patent applications of German universities with … legislation is found only for universities without patent activities in the past. This indicates the importance of collecting …

resolve the access problems. The comment concludes that the key patent problem is the transfer of know-how and that developing … new ideas about addressing these patent know-how transfers is the presently unaddressed challenge …

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 … opposition figures and changing behaviour of patent applicants. Stefan M. Wagner analyses problems associated with institutional …