While the US patent system has no doubt provided valuable incentives to researchers to innovate, culminating in new discoveries, the same system has restricted the research it seeks to promote. Part 1 of this article addresses the history and present state of the US patent system. In Part 2,...

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 were struck down by the court in Tafas v. Dudas as...

In the last two decades the society has witnessed dramatic advances in the field of biotechnology. Recently, nanotechnology forms the main area of technological innovation. Genetic altering of various products and live organisms hopefully will improve the quality of human life. Two decades ago...

The biotechnology industry has been an engine of innovation for the U.S. healthcare system and, more generally, the U.S. economy. It is by far the most research intensive industry in the U.S. In our analyses in the current paper, for example, we find that, over the past 25 years, average Ramp;D...

This article deals with some of the intellectual property protection of biotechnology in developing countries. The article does not pretend to present an exhaustive study about the subject, but to provide an introduction to the problems faced by developing nations. There are several...

We examine the evolution of biotechnology clusters in Germany between 1996 and 2003, paying particular attention to their composition in terms of venture capital, basic science institutions, and biotechnology firms. Drawing upon the significance of co-location of quot;money and ideasquot;, the...

Patent scope is probably one of the most debated issues in patent law generally and it has recently gained new contours thanks to the substantial scientific improvements in genetics and modern biology, which have resulted in the creation of what we now address as the biotech industry. Indeed,...

A number of theoretical frameworks describe the development of high-technology industries. These frameworks usually proscribe a minimum of government intervention and often emphasise a regional agglomeration of industries. The frameworks described here are the National Innovation System (NIS)...

India is promoted as the global hub of IT and ITES enabled services. The Economic Times has dubbed Bangalore as the BPO capital of world, but the question remains as to whether the Indian corporations would match the standards of western world. Government both central and federal have started to...

During the late 1990s a series of negative events occurred in the United Kingdom (UK) related to biotechnology. These events signaled potential risks associated with biotech foods and crops and were highly reported. According to the trust asymmetry hypothesis, such events ought to cause public...