the heart of open source model since licenses that organize the innovation and business relationships between developers …, distributors and end-users are based on copyright law. The proliferation of software patents can, however be seen as a threat for … licenses and the creation of patent commons, are a testiment to a genuinely creative use of IP law by the open source community …

the main strategic implications of such a complex picture. We first survey the main patent functions : innovation … protection, functions related to trade and finance, defensive roles, and patent as an input in the innovation process. We then … how complex patents are. The goal of this paper is to present an overview of all identified functions of patents and of …

inventors in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. We analyse patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to thousands of …We provide new insights into the role of individual inventors in innovation. We focus our analysis on prolific …

particular industry - standards generate potential for market power far beyond the legal protection conferred by patents. Patent …From the perspective of antitrust authorities, the multiplication of patents embodied in technology standards is a … source of concerns. Certainly it is necessary and efficient that patents owners derive a revenue from the use of the standard …

How do financial markets respond to firms' efforts at innovation ? To answer this question, we measure innovation by … creating a synthetic indicator based on a firm's recent history of R&D expenditure and patent applications. We focus on four 2 …. Whilst standard regression techniques find a positive relationship between innovation and growth, quantile regression …

of the French case, the place of science in the patent system is taken into account in order to understand, at last, the …

, the legislation on innovation of each country, patents deposited and cases of technology transfer are presented. The … Universidade de La Rochelle (ULR) (France) in relation to the activities of innovation management, intellectual property (IP) and … regarding the legislation on innovation, from the databases of the universities, and from an interview with the director of the …

article describes important advantages and disadvantages of a number of patent systems. In order to correct negative effects … of the intellectual property institute the author encourages to use mechanisms such as compulsory licensing, patent …