This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

India's amendment to her patent regime in 2005 to introduce pharmaceutical product patents attracted unprecedented … away their exclusive rights, civil society activists decried the new product patent regime, fearing that it would cause … steep hikes in the price of life saving drugs. This politicization of patent law produced some interesting results; most …

The application of patent protection for gene sequences and associated technologically developments has met with much …-economic policies underpinning intellectual property, that support a restricted purpose-bound approach to patent protection of gene …