Patents and the Right to a Healthy Environment - An Outline of a Response to the Critics

Patents and the Right to a Healthy Environment - An Outline of a Response to the Critics Dijkman, Léon Author aut Text xx# 2025 Verfassungsblog 2025-04-23 eng 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Dijkman, Léon 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– 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/patents-and-the-right-to-a-healthy-environment/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/3e4c22892bb1b136 250423 10.59704/3e4c22892bb1b136 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)