http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/3e4c22892bb1b136 https://verfassungsblog.de/patents-and-the-right-to-a-healthy-environment/ Patents and the Right to a Healthy Environment - An Outline of a Response to the Critics Dijkman, Léon eng 2025-04-23 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 EU Europäisches Gericht | Luxemburg (Stadt) Richtlinie zur Durchsetzung der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums | Europäische Union Vrendenbarg Charlotte | 1981– climate change patents EU Europäisches Gericht | Luxemburg (Stadt) Richtlinie zur Durchsetzung der Rechte des geistigen Eigentums | Europäische Union Vrendenbarg Charlotte | 1981– Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 How may patent law contribute to or hinder the technologies and innovation needed to conserve a healthy environment? This brief contribution seeks to make two points in this respect. The first is that the role patent law can play on its own should not be overestimated. The second is that future studies in this direction should take an innovation systems approach. While neither point is new, I believe connecting them and building on key publications that first expressed them serves as a useful agenda for future research in this field.