, 2011, the first major overhaul of US Patent law in nearly 60 years was signed into law. Among other provisions, the law … moved the US to a first-to-file priority when granting patents, as was the practice in most of the rest of the world. Many … felt this change would help to reduce the amount of patent litigation. The case ends with the Supreme Court's 9 to 0 on …

Biotechnology companies have fought to have their rights to seeds and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) recognized …

-biotech realm. In this study, patent production acts as a measure of intellectual property rights production in ag-biotech, assuming … that patent production is a primary goal of university administrators. Five hypotheses are explored:presence of correlated … to ag-biotech patent production), presence of industry effects (funding influences production of ag-biotech patents), and …

Using a unique dataset of patent applications, I examine the importance of differences in patent laws, demand for the … invention, and costs of patenting across countries on firms' propensity to pursue agricultural biotechnology patents in … different countries. I isolate the propensity to patent, a potential negative side effect of instituting stronger patent policy …

patent counts. The econometric estimates reveal the importance to agricultural biotechnology patent production of land grant …This article examines the factors that account for agricultural biotechnology patenting success among universities … infrastructure, quality faculty, patent-oriented technology transfer offices, as well as dynamic feedback effects …