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Intellectual property rights and agricultural development : evidence from a worldwide index of IPRs in agriculture (1961-2018)
Campi, Mercedes; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2020
This paper revises and updates the Campi-Nuvolari index of intellectual property protection for plant varieties (Campi and Nuvolari, 2015). The new index has been updated and provides yearly scores for the period 1961-2018 for a total number of 104 countries, which have legislation on plant...
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The use of patent statistics for international comparisons and analysis of narrow technological fields
Haščič, Ivan; Silva, Jérôme; Johnstone, Nick - 2015
Patent data provide an increasingly used means to analyse innovation performance worldwide including in countries with incomplete data coverage, such as some developing countries. This paper discusses the specific issues associated with using patent data for measuring and analysing innovation in...
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Statistical Patent Analysis Indicators as a Means of Determining Country Technological Specialisation
Khramova, Ekaterina - 2013
Patent data provide a rich set of information which can be used for comparative studies and trend analysis. The paper presents a systematic overview of the most appropriate tools methodologies that are available for determining the technological specialization of countries. Such analysis...
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Flexible Drug Patent Terms : A Proposed Mechanism to Stimulate Global Innovation and Health
Warren, Benjamin - 2013
A major problem for humankind rests in the seemingly unresolvable competing vested interests found within the global patent system. Adequate access to medicines, particularly in developing countries, is necessary to promote health and ultimately, economic development, but the prolonged time...
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3D Printing and Patent Law : A Disruptive Technology Disrupting Patent Law?
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2017
Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central question the present paper aims to address is whether and to what extent the emergence of 3D printing technology indeed urges us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this...
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Innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO members : analytical review of Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) COVID-19 Vaccines Patent Landscape (VaxPaL)
Chiang, Ting-Wei; Wu, Xiaoping - 2022 - Manuscript date: 18 January 2022
This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten COVID-19 vaccines. These vaccines have accounted for 99% of the global COVID-19 vaccine production as of 31 December 2021, comprising over ten billion doses. Eight of them, namely...
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The Scientific Output of a Database on Commercialized Patents
Svensson, Roger - 2020
The purpose of this study is to present a unique database on commercialized patents and to illustrate how it can be … used to analyze the commercialization process of patents. The dataset is based on a survey of Swedish patents owned by … commercialization not found anywhere else, including whether, when and how (acquisition, licensing, existing or new firm) patents were …
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Biodiversity and the Patent System : Towards International Indicators
Oldham, Paul D. - 2014
This paper provides a series of international indicators for biodiversity and traditional knowledge within the global patent system. The indicators are based on a review of the International Patent Classification in use by patent offices worldwide and enable the analysis of a wide variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709142
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Big pharma and monopoly capitalism: a long-term view
Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi; Staccioli, Jacopo; … - 2021
an innovation rewarding institution. According to our analysis, pharma patents have constituted legal barriers to protect …. Conversely, the number of patents protecting new drugs approved by the FDA which draw upon government-sponsored research - as …
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Do National Patent Laws Stimulate Domestic Innovation in a Global Patenting Environment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection, 1978-2002
Qian, Yi - 2014
This paper evaluates the effects of patent protection on pharmaceutical innovations for twenty-six countries that established pharmaceutical patent laws during 1978-2002. Controlling for country characteristics through matched sampling techniques to establish two proper comparison sets among...
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