This article is a collection of the recent patent and trademark news around the world. Part I deals with the trademark … issues related to Patent Law around the world with 10 most important developments including the American Invents Act that … tends to change the patent scenario in United States of America from “First to Invent” to "First to File” …

other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

Tracing back to the Venetian patent law of the 1400s the motivation underlying the grant of the patent was to encourage … society. A patent generally gives its owner the right to prevent third parties from exploiting that same invention or creation …. As a reward or encouragement, it empowers the patent owner to secure a ‘producer surplus’ above that which would be …

70 markets, the study finds that introduction of product patent for pharmaceuticals in the patent law has a positive …-income markets. Also, innovative pharmaceuticals are launched sooner than non-innovative ones, irrespective of the patent regime in …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

. This exercise was part of the "UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it", which set out the government …’s long-term plan for delivering innovation-led growth. The call for views and this submission focus on issues of (i …

intense import competition. I introduce a model of international patent protection, where patent holders influence the policy … their long product lifetime seek strong patent protection by home government. To test the theory, I measure product cycles …, using millions of patent citations, and collect lobbying reports filed on US trade agreements on patent protection, signed …

This research explores the cultural origins of observed differences in the strength of patent rights across countries …. The analysis establishes empirically that pairwise differences in patent rights strength between countries are associated … patent rights institutions. The study also reveals that the strength of patent rights has been determined by the prevalence …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position … that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee should exhaust U.S. patent rights by default unless the patentee … subjects the firms that source in the South and sell in the North to the risk of a patent infringement lawsuit but allows the …