Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Institute for New Technologies - 2005
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Over time, stronger patent regimes, newer technologies such as biotechnology and changing
industrial …), there has been a rapid rise in patent grants in
biotechnology. In the time period 1990 to 2000, the number of patents … granted in
biotechnology rose by 15% a year at the USPTO, and by 10.5% at the EPO, compared with a
5% increase in overall …