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 …

Southern firms in global innovation networks. A complementary exercise uses global bilateral patent data to investigate the …

Patent thickets may inefficient retard cumulative innovation. This paper explores two alternative mechanisms that may … be used to weed out patent thickets. Both mechanisms are intended to reduce the number of patents in our society. The … more innovative mechanism is quantity based regulation through the establishment of a system of Tradable Patent Rights. The …

product development. The strategic use of race as a genetic category to obtain patent protection and drug approval. A dramatic … of patent law as an adjunct to biotechnological inventions producing a new political geography of intellectual property …

implemented to date have focused on procedural matters, such as international patent application procedures, and the duration of … patents. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conducted negotiations toward substantive harmonization under the …

mean, of course, that transactions in IP will not take place – we see such transactions happening out in the world every …

The U.S. has been under pressure to abandon the unique first-to-invent feature of its patent law for awarding patents … innovation. We evaluate this argument in a dynamic stochastic model of a patent race. The result generally supports the …

that patent issues will arise in the future …