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 …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

the user in the assessment of the subject matter covered by the patent claims and in creating a comprehensive overview of … the patent situation within this field. These tools have been used in a pilot study on 11 selected hereditary disorders …

family size, and the patent grant likelihood. The final four chapters of the study focus on a set of specific topics: (1 …) ‘blanket disclosures’, (2) essential patent transfer, (3) patent pools, and (4) and litigation …

future of plant breeding in the light of developments around plant breeder’s rights and patent rights. The following … intellectual property in this? Who are the main patent holders in plant breeding? What are the socio-economic consequences of these … agriculture, which led to the introduction of patent rights in the breeding sector. This system of intellectual property rights …

trend was less prominent in the field of patent law and it was only with the coming into effect of the TRIPS Agreement that … Meilenstein von enormer Bedeutung, (a major milestone) since, for the first time in patent history, it introduced a worldwide … framework of minimum standards with regard to the grant, scope and use of patent rights. The present paper describes the global …

ignore the fact that the DVD technology is protected with patents. More than 850 patents owned by some 10 patent holders … individual licenses with all those 10 patent holders in order to use these technologies. It goes without saying that doing so … ‘the safe side’, you will have to negotiate individual licenses with all those patent holders in order to bring your rice …

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 …

the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout in the ICT sector, and then about how to eliminate or reduce these … made great efforts to solve the issue of patent holdup and holdout, there is still an ongoing struggle among divergent … stakeholders. Patent holdup and holdout directly impacts the innovation and dissemination of patented technology, the harmonization …