Yiannaka, Amalia; Fulton, Murray E. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2003
Innovating firms choose to patent their innovations when patenting allows the appropriation of more rents than do other … that have generated patentable process innovations and have decided to seek patent protection. In specific, the paper … determines the privately optimal patent breadth for process innovations when the innovator faces the probability of a direct …