This paper considers the prospect of a government patent buyout in a model of endogenous growth. To this end, the … shows that in this set-up, patent buyout by the government can lead to higher level of welfare without lowering an economy …

trends of innovation and patenting activities of COVID-19 vaccines in WTO Members, and presents the legal status of the 74 …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 …

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … lower than the social plannerś benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a "non-infringing inventive … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

We test whether intellectual property rights foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations for a …

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent … Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the … participation of a patent's original examiner in the opposition division as an instrument. We find a disciplinary effect of …

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …