public both directly and in terms of reduced access. During the COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive patent assertion may be a … outpatient treatment for COVID-19 is being denied in many parts of the world, as patients are turned away from hospitals and …, and personal protective equipment. For these reasons, pandemic-related patent law is an issue which the European …

We show the impact of technology licensing on optimal patent policy. Strong patent protection that eliminates imitation … increase or reduce the strength of the patent protection …

Patent counts are very imperfect measures of innovative output. This paper discusses how additional data-the number of … years a patent is renewed and the number of countries in which protection for the same invention is sought - can be used to … proposed which may remove half of the noise in patent counts as a measure of innovative output. The paper also illustrates how …

Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic … that despite sometimes controversial licensing practices the patent system has broadly achieved what is intended. The …