Global Collaborative Patents

Global health and university patents.

U niversities have long been important in the development of life-saving medicines and technologies, and they once considered patenting to be antithetical to academic science and public health. Now a fierce debate rages about whether and when patents promote innovation, but in practice, the patenting worm has turned: Seeking revenues and ways to commercialize their inventions, U.S. universities...

Google Patents: The global patent search engine

Google Patents (www.google.com/patents) includes over 8 million full-text patents. Google Patents works in the same way as the Google search engine. Google Patents is the global patent search engine that lets users search through patents from the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), EPO (European Patent Office), etc. This study begins with an overview of how to use Google Patent a...

Patents and the Global Diffusion of New Drugs.

Analysis of the timing of launches of 642 new drugs in 76 countries during 1983–2002 shows that patent and price regulation regimes strongly affect how quickly new drugs become commercially available in different countries. Price regulation delays launch, while longer and more extensive patent rights accelerate it. Health policy institutions and economic and demographic factors that make market...

Patents or Patents Pending

An Aluminum Nitride (AlN) MEMS resonator technology has been developed, enabling massively parallel filter and oscillator arrays on a single chip. Low loss filter banks and resonator arrays covering the 10MHz10GHz frequency range have been demonstrated, as has monolithic integration with inductors and CMOS circuitry. The high level of integration enables miniature multi-band, spectrally-aware a...

Rights, patents, markets and the global AIDS pandemic.