... of this article is to provide an overview of the patent damages rules in the EU and to identify some of the challenges US companies and inventors should be aware of as they seek to enforce their patent rights in Europe. First, it reviews the lack of a Community patent and the ability to enforce damage awards...

... agreements in a way that does not unintentionally exhaust their patent rights, particularly in industries having a multi-level product supply chain. The upcoming decision of the Supreme Court will provide further guidance. In the USA, the doctrine of patent exhaustion cuts off a patent owner's rights...

... by the enforcement of patent rights when firms have overlapping technologies; some merger activity may be explained by attempts to avoid mutually blocking technology, as exemplified by the case of Roundup Ready corn. hazard estimation mergers and acquisitions mutually blocking patents patent enforceability...

... remaining errors are her own. 5 1999 5 2001 Copyright 2002 American Agricultural Economics Association 2002 Abstract This article analyzes the effects of foreign patent rights on U.S. bilateral exports. The empirical analysis covers three highly disaggregated drug industries over three decades. We...

... the counter medications Source: Vassallo 2010 : 19. This chapter discusses the evolution of Chilean patent rights and the protection of non-disseminated information concerning the safety and efficacy of pharmaceutical products. The chapter is organized as follows. Section I presents...

...Considers the efficiency effects of intellectual property rights (IPR), with a focus on patent rights. Specifically, it examines the dilemma facing policy‐makers in fostering innovation: how to reconcile the restrictions that intellectual property rights impose on the use of innovations...

... from the United States and its pharmaceutical industry to expand patent rights in violation of express limits on IP protection required by Andean IP rules. Section III evaluates the Andean Community's relative success in balancing the interests of IP owners and consumers. It also considers the broader...

... is the provision of rapid, inexpensive, and reliable enforcement of patent rights within Europe. The EU Commission has attempted to harmonize IP enforcement in Europe by means of Directive 2004/48, ⁷¹ now implemented by all EU countries, but this does little more than set out general principles...

... that regulate the acquisition, recognition, and use of patent rights on pharmaceuticals and trade secrets in data concerning them, along with the conditions under which these rights give way to the interest in public access to cheaper generic drugs. One of a series of studies commissioned as part of a larger...

...This chapter takes a look at how strong patent rights affect the growth of technology transactions. Several types of welfare benefits are seen to emerge out of this trade, such as how the division of labor may promote specialization, or how it can also give rise to a superior resource allocation...

...This chapter examines the issue of farmers' rights in the context of proprietary claims in agriculture as either patent rights or breeders' rights. It argues that in the case of farmers' rights, the power that the right confers on the farmer ought to determine his capacity and power to sustain his...

... of patent rights, and how patent rights are enforced for WTO member countries. In addition, it discusses the TRIPS requirement to protect some clinical data. This chapter answers some key questions, such as the following: Does TRIPS establish uniform patent standards? Do all WTO member countries need...

...This chapter considers the licensing of patents. When a product that a manufacturer wishes to sell or a project that it wishes to develop appears to be covered by someone else’s patent rights, it may have to approach the patentee for a licence. The licence is a non-exclusive licence under...