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Dynamic Protection of Innovations through Patents and Trade Secrets

Belleflamme, Paul; Bloch, Paul - CESifo - 2013

This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...

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Cutting too Close? Design Protection and Innovation in Fashion Goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - CESifo - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Universal Intellectual Property Rights: Too Much of a Good Thing?

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara; Paillacar, Rodrigo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies the incentives that developing countries have to protect intellectual properties rights (IPR). On the one hand, free-riding on rich countries technology reduces their investment cost in R&D. On the other hand, firm that violates IPR cannot legally export in a country that...

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How Many Patents Does it Take to Signal Innovation Quality?

Comino, Stefano; Graziano, Clara - CESifo - 2014

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …

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Competition, Imitation, and R&D Productivity in a Growth Model with Sector-Specific Patent Protection

Mosel, Malte - CESifo - 2010

is found that patents ought to be weaker, the more intense competition, the higher R&D productivity, and the more …

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Cumulative Innovation, Growth and Welfare-Improving Patent Policy

Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - CESifo - 2013

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly improve upon frontier technologies, and productivity improvements are drawn in a stochastic manner. The presence of positive knowledge spillovers implies that the decentralized...

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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to implement them. Both of these knowledge-based...

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Would Global Patent Protection be too Weak without International Coordination?

Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Yan, Isabel K.-M. - CESifo - 2011

This paper analyzes the setting of national patent policies in the global economy. In the standard model with free trade and social-welfare-maximizing governments à la Grossman and Lai (2004), cross-border positive policy externalities induce individual countries to select patent strengths that...

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Employment Protection and the Market for Innovations

Bastgen, Andreas; Holzner, Christian - CESifo - 2015

We study the effects of employment protection taking into account that firms can invest in R&D or buy new technologies in order to restore their productivity. To do so we develop an equilibrium matching model with an imperfect labor and innovation market. If employment protection is introduced,...

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The Role of Human Capital and Innovation in Prussian Economic Development

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - CESifo - 2013

By merging individual data on valuable patents granted in Prussia in the late nineteenth century with county level …

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