then, the issue of the relationship between patent protection and the development of and access to medical treatments and … an overview of the patent landscape of medical treatments and technologies related to COVID-19, and of the patent status … of two investigational medical treatments: remdesivir and lopinavir/ritonavir. It then presents various patent …

This paper has attempted a comprehensive investigation of the economic impact of patent holdout by (1) providing a … theoretical foundation of patent holdout and its economic implications, (2) operationalizing this theory into several testable … economic models, and (3) testing the models with empirical data.As a starting point, we define patent holdout as a …

This working paper provides a statistical analysis of 74 patent families which cover subject matter relevant to ten … based on VaxPaL, a COVID-19 vaccines patent database developed by the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP). Through the detailed … examination of patent applicants, filing dates, and offices of first and subsequent filing, the paper identifies patterns and …

resolve the access problems. The comment concludes that the key patent problem is the transfer of know-how and that developing … new ideas about addressing these patent know-how transfers is the presently unaddressed challenge …

to local pharmaceutical industries in developing countries. With the advent of global patent protection for … innovation capacities in developing countries requires a well constructed patent regime. To this end, this thesis investigates … the concept of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection in developing countries, its issues and prospects and illustrates the …

explores whether patents, like other governmental acts such as legislation, can create expressive harms. The grant of a patent … elimination through what is effectively privatized eugenics. The grant of a patent on such technologies affords the government …