industries where patents are traded less frequently. Our findings are consistent with a stylized model whereby patent protection …We estimate the effect of patent protection on follow-on investments in corporate scientific research. We exploit a new … method for identifying an exogenous reduction in the protection a granted patent provides. Using data on public, research …

of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to … those already offering such protection the situation offers a unique opportunity to examine the incentive role of patent … might enhance, or dampen, a firm's responsiveness to the availability of product patents. The picture presented here …

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 economic literature reveals that the relationship between patents and Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) depends on … most attractive destinations to technology intensive FDI, for instance, pharmaceutical FDI. To explore whether patent … measuring the pharmaceutical patent protection in China (PPP index) to analyze its correlation with inward pharmaceutical FDI …

firms may protect their inventions by means of intellectual property rights, such as patents. By taking out a patent … of patents on the dissemination of R&D findings is, however, insignificant. Therefore, we conclude that patent …From a firm’s perspective two competing forces are driving the decision to invest in innovation. On the one hand …

Since the patent system relies on private litigation for challenging weak patents, and patent settlements might … influence the incentives for challenging patents, the question arises whether the antitrust assessment of patent settlements … should also consider their impact on the incentives to challenge potentially invalid patents. Patent settlements in the …