Caillaud, Bernard; Duchene, Anne - HAL - 2009
The number of patent applications and "bad" patents issued has been rising rapidly in recent years. Based on this trend …, we study the overload problem within the Patent Office and its consequences on the firms' R&D incentives. We assume that …&D, opportunistic patent applications and the issuance of bad patents. Multiple equilibria often coexist, which deeply undermines the …