There has been a wide-spread misconception based on the imprecise wording of Art. 52 of the European Patent Convention … framework set by patent laws with respect to the patentability of business methods, contrasting the situation in lege in Europe … Europe. In the empirical part of the paper, 1,901 European patent applications relating to business methods are identified …

This thesis analyses the extraterritorial dimension of patent systems in light of recent judicial trends, ending with … interest of nations in issuing and maintaining patent rights; (ii) the legal arguments against a unilateral extraterritorial … extension of patent rights. The general conclusions are that, in the modern age, patent rights need to be extended beyond the …

over-inclusive. If an invention is “new, useful, and non-obvious,” critics ask, why should it be denied patent incentives …

all cases the lab is required to take the responsibility for any patent infringement liability. No lab would willfully … interpretation of patent infringements by US courts, aggressive patenting strategies of MNCs, globalisation of operations by Indian …

Since the mapping of the human genome and the technical innovations in the field of biotechnology, patent law has gone … legislative acts and judicial decisions, ensuring a fair balance between the interests of patent right holders and third parties … shaping the patent policy on an international level are the patent offices of the United States of America, Japan and the …

the European Patent Office by companies in the remit of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). We also aim at moving … Patent Office between 1985 and 2014. We employ a new matched patent-firm data set provided by the Bureau Van Dijk: ORBIS … become progressively younger on average. At the same time, we find a steady growth in the average number of 4IR patent …

file patent applications to safeguard and exploit the results of their research. Section 2 of the paper discusses the … rationale of the patent system. Section 3 deals with the subject-matter which can be protected under the European Patent … Convention together with the criteria for patent protection. Section 4 describes how a patent right can be acquired. In …

Between 1980 and 2001, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded over 8,000 patents on genes and genetic … to a variety of issues, including their relatively recent arrival into the patent realm, their grant of exclusivity over … factors, dealing directly with the application of patent laws, and policy factors, implicating problems of access, cost, and …

both governments to the issue of regulatory delay eroding some period of patent protection. Second, the paper considers the … impact of the principle of free movement of goods within the European Union on the incentive structure of the patent system … could be pursued without undercutting the effective operation of the patent system. The paper suggests that such a …

Although patent litigation has become increasingly global, with litigants earning billion-dollar verdicts and seeking … litigants are increasingly drawn, and to which policy makers interested in harmonizing the U.S. patent system look in vain for … database including nearly 9,000 patent suits from seven of the largest and most judicially-active countries in the European …