public both directly and in terms of reduced access. During the COVID-19 pandemic, aggressive patent assertion may be a …, and personal protective equipment. For these reasons, pandemic-related patent law is an issue which the European …. This Article focuses on how the U.S. patent system can promote the public interest and global public health in the context …

patent rights have been strengthened or when standards-contributing firms hold a larger proportion of related patents …

which are under patent protection in India. The Indian prices of DPP-4 inhibitors are higher than those of other drugs in … the same segment, but only a fraction of the price in the U.S. and other developed countries (i.e., the patent holders … practice international differential pricing). The patent holders also license the products out voluntarily to local …

Economists’ standard notion of intellectual property rights considers a single patent per product, with a clearly …” intellectual property rights: More than one patent may cover a single product, with the scope and enforcement of each uncertain … generic entry: by introducing a binding later patent expiration and by increasing uncertainty in the scope and enforceability …

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 …

This paper evaluates the effects of patent protection on pharmaceutical innovations for twenty-six countries that … established pharmaceutical patent laws during 1978-2002. Controlling for country characteristics through matched sampling …-effects regressions, this study yields robust results. National patent protection alone does not stimulate domestic innovation, as …

. The article argues that technology, with its legal protection, can be used to expand the patent monopoly, or even supplant … effects of access- and use-controlling technology on the patent monopoly and, drawing on the experience of other jurisdictions … the Copyright Act can be misused to expand the patent monopoly. One recommendation is to change the proposed provisions in …

company:(1) has a patent needed to use a standard, (2) promises to license the patent on reasonable terms, and then (3) says … “patent holdup.”The concerns threatened by patent holdup have consistently been acknowledged by officials in Republican and … Antitrust in Preventing Patent Holdup. In contrast, they are neglected by the current Assistant Attorney General of the …

. The licenses may be issued under certain conditions, even if the patent holder (innovator) has an exclusive right to the … paper details the first attempt by the Indian patent system to strike a balance between the innovator's legal and economic … related to this case. An assessment of the compulsory licensing provisions under the TRIPS agreement and the Indian Patent Act …

TRIPS agreement exceptions and/or to water down those exceptions. Altogether, they ramp up pressure on patent owners to give … that stealth licensing is a significant phenomenon that adversely impacts the social welfare functions of the patent system …. It risks undermining investment in technology, technology creation and the dissemination functions of the patent system …