Congratulating Elise Melon - Laureate - EFPIA College of Europe Award 2012
20.06.12
This paper deals with the “global patent warming” phenomenon and the increasing concerns it is raising, from the perspectives of the patent system, competition law and the new open innovation paradigm. “Global patent warming” is indeed a major challenge today: patent applications are increasing, the number of patents granted is increasing, pendency volumes are increasing. The phenomenon has grown to an extent such as to drive the patent system close to the burnout and to heavily question its efficiency and legitimacy. Because global patent warming, by the issues it raises, is largely symptomatic of the patent system perpetual crisis, understanding this phenomenon is the key to understand what is today at stake withthe patent system and to think about what the ways forward are.
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Deliberation of the Jury
Elise Melon’s Curriculum Vitae