world? This paper considers a framework where non-frontier countries may benefit from medical innovation that is embodied in …

other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide patent-like protection or further strengthen existing patent … drug companies: data exclusivity and patent linkage. As noted in earlier chapters (separately posted on SSRN), not all … competition, a thorough understanding of these requirements (as well as how they intersect with patent protection) is important to …

international laws and policies impacting access to medicine is a dynamic process in which competing patent perspectives (as well as … their confluence) play an important role. Whereas patent-owning companies are usually considered to dominate conversations …

Tracing back to the Venetian patent law of the 1400s the motivation underlying the grant of the patent was to encourage … society. A patent generally gives its owner the right to prevent third parties from exploiting that same invention or creation …. As a reward or encouragement, it empowers the patent owner to secure a ‘producer surplus’ above that which would be …

five factors describe the phenomena largely responsible for the current mass extinction event, and patent law offers … valuable assistance in combating each one. Though it cannot offer a complete solution to the biodiversity crisis, the patent … system can offer powerful tools to help save biodiversity. On first inspection, patent law might appear an unlikely ally for …

discusses how patent-like rights (such as "data exclusivity") prevent lower-cost generic medicines from entering into the …

. Patent owners should be compensated for both conservation efforts and valuable innovation … propose the use of transferable intellectual property rights (wildcard patents) and patent term extensions as methods to … introductions is higher than previously suggested. More importantly, creating new patent rights is shown to be an inefficient and …