hungry capitalist marketplace, patent law has expanded to accommodate a range of biological inventions. There has been much … waitress, Donna MacLean, sought a patent application - GB0000180.0 - in respect of herself. She explained that she had … satisfied the usual patent criteria - in that she was novel, inventive, and useful: It has taken 30 years of hard labor for me …

Few topics in the life sciences today provoke as much debate as the availability of patent protection on "genetic … that despite sometimes controversial licensing practices the patent system has broadly achieved what is intended. The …

Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the …

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 …