strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A … counterfactual welfare analysis suggests that the increase in patent flows from North to South has benefited both regions, with South …

The patent industries have discovered the global marketplace. While the practice of patented technologies is now … international, patent rights remain territorial. Various international developments facilitate the acquisition of patent rights …

ignore the fact that the DVD technology is protected with patents. More than 850 patents owned by some 10 patent holders … individual licenses with all those 10 patent holders in order to use these technologies. It goes without saying that doing so … ‘the safe side’, you will have to negotiate individual licenses with all those patent holders in order to bring your rice …

concerns about the appropriateness of the present patent system have focused, in particular, on health and access to medicines … in developing countries, alternatives to the present patent system will then be considered in relation to current … using patent information to stimulate invention and innovation …

This paper examines the role of patent policy in the open economy. It begins by considering how the presence of patents … affects trade in patentable products. A brief review of the general argument for patent protection is followed by … consideration of the elements that comprise a patent system, and which determine "patent strength". Attention is then given to how …