(SEPs), and the patent policies of standards development organizations (SDOs). While this litigation has fueled a cottage …

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 …

how, and the extent to which a precautionary approach could be crystallized in the intellectual property (IP) patent …

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 …

public both directly and in terms of reduced access. During the COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive patent assertion may be a …, and personal protective equipment. For these reasons, pandemic-related patent law is an issue which the European …. This Article focuses on how the U.S. patent system can promote the public interest and global public health in the context …

other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

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 …