This paper explores several characteristics of patents in the biotechnology field, comparing and contrasting them to … patents in other fields of research. We find that biotechnology patents face a longer lag between application and grant date … patent, with a special weight on academic or scientific literature, foreign patents, and a tight circle of research fields …

on Biotechnology. An example of the use of patent information for determining trends by means of Technology Surveillance …Taking into account the relevance of Biotechnology in the World industry and economic growth, this essay is focused on … the analysis of the use of biotech patent information for determining technological trends and generating innovation …

invention, and costs of patenting across countries on firms' propensity to pursue agricultural biotechnology patents in …Using a unique dataset of patent applications, I examine the importance of differences in patent laws, demand for the … different countries. I isolate the propensity to patent, a potential negative side effect of instituting stronger patent policy …

Fledgling efforts exist to establish open-source projects in biotechnology. Following copyleft, participants agree that … advances in the technology must remain as openly available as the original technology. Such agreements implicate patent misuse …, which is defined as an impermissible attempt to expand the scope of the patent. Given that advancements were not part of the …

policy levers, reveals that rather than systematically expanding the patent system to accommodate biotechnology inventions … and stimulating innovation in the biotechnology sector, some policy levers narrow down the patent potential for …In their animated book 'The Patent Crisis and How the Courts can Solve It', Dan Burk and Mark Lemley give an account of …

Biotechnnology Directive in Belgian patent law. Whereas the first bill was hotly debated in parliament [see G. Van Overwalle, ‘Of …

examination demonstrates clearly that European patent law has adapted itself to the new reality of biotechnology in many ways, but … trend was less prominent in the field of patent law and it was only with the coming into effect of the TRIPS Agreement that … Meilenstein von enormer Bedeutung, (a major milestone) since, for the first time in patent history, it introduced a worldwide …

The United States Patent Office was poised to implement a new set of regulatory rules on November 1, 2007, that would … have had considerable impact upon the use of continuation applications in patent prosecution. As the proposed Final Rules …'s authority, their potential impact upon patent prosecution methods will likely remain in the realm of the hypothetical. This …

Today it is widely recognized that biotechnology is one of the key sectors of the emerging knowledge based economy (see …, e.g., Trippl and Tödtling 2007). Revenues and turnovers from biotechnology applications – here defined to include all … considerably, in particular over the last two decades. A specific property of the biotechnology industry is its knowledge …