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 …

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 …

survey conducted to beneficiaries, this study reconstructs the progress made by the patent applicants. The results show, on …

similar patents, and patent applications are less likely to be abandoned post-AIPA, suggesting a reduction in duplicative R …&D. Firms exposed to longer patent grant delays increased their R&D investment more after AIPA. We estimate AIPA increased … with the predictions of our theoretical framework which models patent publication as provisioning current information about …

.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win the patent “lottery” by drawing lenient examiners have, on average …, 55% higher employment growth and 80% higher sales growth five years later. Patent winners also pursue more, and higher … quality, follow-on innovation. Winning a first patent boosts a startup’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating …

This paper has attempted a comprehensive investigation of the economic impact of patent holdout by (1) providing a … theoretical foundation of patent holdout and its economic implications, (2) operationalizing this theory into several testable … economic models, and (3) testing the models with empirical data.As a starting point, we define patent holdout as a …

significant estimates are all related to firms with no patent applications prior to obtaining support. Moreover, we estimate that …