Patent is a significant tool for the technological and economic development of any society. Being monopoly rights for a period of 20 years, patent also restricts competition as it is an incentive to the patentee. Though on the expiry of 20 years, patent falls into public domain and becomes...

“Superprime” condominiums—condos worth more than $10,000,000—represent the apex of the land market in global cities. In New York City, several superprime condo developments have sprouted up in recent years, with many of them clustering in an area south of Central Park popularly dubbed...

This paper aims to examine whether property rights protection can enhance firm innovation. To address the endogeneity problem and establish a causal relationship, we adopt the establishment of Intellectual Property Tribunals (IP Tribunals) in China as a natural experiment and employ the...

The objective of granting patent rights is to confer monopoly rights, the rights to exclusive use and exploitation of one’s invention to the exclusion of all the others. However, this essentially requires that the rights claimed may only be realised once the claimed invention satisfies the...

International law has traditionally evolved to settle legal disputes between States and private parties by providing for economic retaliation and demand for repatriation in case of trade in goods. When it comes to disputes between States diplomatic efforts have attempted to prevent trade...

This study describes patterns and trends of intellectual property (IP) use in Brazil, drawing on a new statistical database (BADEPI) containing all IP filings at Brazilian Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial (INPI) over the period 2000-2011. This novel database contains a unique set of...

An analysis of new, FDA-approved molecular entities reveals dynamism in terms of new innovation. An assessment of the first patent for each drug reveals that the pharmaceutical industry, particularly large, established companies in North America, tend to dominate the field. Whereas inventors...

We analyze inventions in green energy technologies over the period 2005-2017. We use a novel dataset, making use of the IPC Green Inventory of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to analyze four broad categories of green energy technologies including alternative energy production...