@article{Biga_2020, title={Patent Races and Institutional Solutions of Health Care Policy in Developed Countries}, volume={50}, url={https://publicgovernance.pl/zpub/article/view/532}, DOI={10.15678/ZP.2019.50.4.02}, abstractNote={<p>Objectives: To identify the methods of the state’s influence on health care system through intellectual property law mechanisms.</p> <p>Research Design & Methods: Literature review based on the economic analysis of law.</p> <p>F indings: An active role of the state in innovations in the pharmaceutical branch could bring benefits in the health care system. This role does not have to be limited to being a shareholder in selected projects (as a capital supplier).</p> <p>Implications / Recommendations: The state is able to influence the speed, the structure, and the direction of patent races b y setting a real width of the patent (court verdicts) and patent height (patent office’s decisions) as well as the manner and the scale of compulsory licences usage.</p> <p>Contribution / Value Added: Making changes in the speed, the structure, and the direction of patent races has got a strong impact on health policy. Appropriate influencing of the state on innovation activity in the pharmaceutical branch allows one to generate large benefits in the health care system.</p>}, number={4}, journal={Journal of Public Governance}, author={Biga, Bartłomiej}, year={2020}, month={Feb.}, pages={15–22} }