Global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections: micro evidence from the international equivalents of the drug patents in Japan
Okada, Yoshimi : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-07 一橋大学イノベーション研究センター (2016/07/13)
We investigate the global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections as acquired by firms, based on a novel global patent database for all significant medical drugs introduced in Japan. It gives us the propensity of filing and grant rate for each country for the granted patents in Japan. Major findings are the following. Both the fili…