patent system. Adequate access to medicines, particularly in developing countries, is necessary to promote health and … medicines. This paper presents a theoretical proposal for global drug patent system reform that attempts to find the balance … between these interests in the form of flexible patent terms …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social planner's benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a “non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product … of the law protecting trade secrets on innovation and productivity growth in the service sector …

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 …

Until recently, successful patent plaintiffs would almost always be awarded injunctions against future infringement …. Thanks to a recent change in remedies jurisprudence, however, patent plaintiffs today are often denied injunctions and … determined by the court. As a result, certain types of patent cases should today slow down. That is, courts should extend …

between imitation and innovation. Using US patent data for the period 1977-2005, we find that there are inverted U …-shaped relationships between the degree of industry-level technological imitation and industry-level innovation activities and between the … degree of industry-level technological imitation and the value of firm-level innovation. Our results suggest that positive …

How do non-practicing entities (“Patent Trolls”) impact innovation and technological progress? We employ unprecedented … access to NPE-derived patent and financial data and a novel model to answer this question. We find that NPEs tend to acquire … innovation drops when patents are acquired by NPEs. Quantitatively, the overall impact of NPEs depends on the share of …

Classical patent literature assumes that patents grant well-defined legal rights to exclude others from practicing an … invention. In this scenario, start-up companies benefit from the exclusive right to commercialize patent-protected inventions … and the certification effect of patents which signals the ventures' “quality” to investors. If the decision about patent …

-in-differences estimates using 4226 China–U.S. patent dyads and comparable U.S. patents support our hypotheses …