examination and investigation and the economic impact of patents on development and local infrastructures is of significant … concern. However, the cultural impact of patent law is arguably examined with less emphasis, somewhat in contrast to the … by the editor to the collection of essays, Patenting Lives: Life Patents, Culture and Development, considers the nature …

as key-words "university", "patent", "license", "Bayh-Dole", "triple helix" and by an abstract-by-abstract reading of all … university patents did not happen at the expense of their quality, nor of the quality of research. Moreover, scientific …

addresses from a patent perspective some representative concerns relating to patents that appear to be prevalent in the … patent law operates generally with an emphasis on how it may impact the environment in particular. In so doing, the essay … environmental literature and shows how the patent system may provide substantial benefit for those favoring the environment …

Patent thickets are sets of overlapping intellectual property rights that occur in fragmented technology markets. Their … potential impacts on innovation have become an increasing concern in recent years. I estimate the direct and indirect effects of … patent thickets on market value of publicly traded manufacturing firms. I find that patent thickets decrease the market value …

This Article explores the practical consequences of an important shift that has recently taken place in patent theory …. Although it was long agreed that the purpose of granting patents is to reward invention, today many scholars instead attempt to … justify the patent system based on its role in facilitating information exchange and enabling technical coordination among …

sometimes could rely instead on a consideration far more relevant to the patent system's goal of promoting innovation: the … range of topics at the core of contemporary patent policy debates, including patent privateering, FRAND-encumbered patents …The current approach for determining when courts should award injunctions in patent disputes involves a myopic focus on …

about patents and innovation, that they cannot simply rely on the patent system to build up a sound technological base and a …The implementation of patent law in the emerging market countries is having an impact on the international patent … system. First, it is apparent that the principal emerging market economies are not strictly adhering to the patent regimen of …

Because it must rely on imperfect information, the patent system will inevitably make mistakes. To determine how the … picture of the consequences of error in either direction. On the one hand, erroneous patent awards impose unjustified costs …. On the other hand, erroneous patent denials discourage successful inventors and reduce incentives to create in the future …

If a litigated patent has previously been licensed to a third party, the courts generally adopt the terms of the prior … trivialized (and generally false) presumption that a patent license is like a commodity, with the patentee charging a common price … future licensing negotiations – whenever they license their patents, whether or not today’s agreement will be a good proxy …

-life, treatment cost, target clinicians, availability, owner, stage of development, patent life, product differentiation, number of …