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Does Compulsory Licensing Discourage Invention? Evidence From German Patents After WWI

Baten, Joerg - 2015

effects of compulsory licensing under the US Trading-with-the-Enemy Act on invention in Germany. We find that compulsory … of patent-owners - discourages invention. Our analysis exploits new historical data on German patents to examine the … licensing was associated with a 28 percent increase in invention. Historical evidence indicates that, as a result of war …

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Appropriability and the timing of innovation : Evidence from MIT inventions

Dechenaux, Emmanuel - 2003

At least since Arrow (1962), the effects of appropriability on invention have been well studied, but there has been … terminate or commercialize the invention is driven by the current market value of the invention, as well as the option value of …

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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations

Khan, B. Zorina - 2014

success of the invention. Prize-oriented institutions thus appear to be less systematic and not as market-oriented as patent …

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The Circulation of Ideas in Firms and Markets

Hellmann, Thomas F. - 2011

Novel early stage ideas face uncertainty on the expertise needed to elaborate them, which creates a need to circulate them widely to find a match. Yet as information is not excludable, shared ideas may be stolen, reducing incentives to innovate. Still, in idea-rich environments inventors may...

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Why Don't Inventors Patent?

Moser, Petra - 2007

This paper argues that the ability to keep innovations secret may be a key determinant of patenting. To test this hypothesis, the paper examines a newly-collected data set of more than 7,000 American and British innovations at four world's fairs between 1851 and 1915. Exhibition data show that...

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State-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights Policy

Acemoglu, Daron - 2006

What form of intellectual property rights (IPR) policy contributes to economic growth? Should technological followers be able to license the products of technological leaders? Should a company with a large technological lead receive the same IPR protection as a company with a more limited lead?...

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Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 1997

technologies and focused their energy and resources on invention itself. Firms responded to the expansion of this trade by … ease of integrating invention and production within the firm, we reverse the story. Economic actors at that time had a lot …

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The Democratization of Invention During Early Industrialization : Evidence from the United States, 1790-1846

Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1989

We employ the 1860 Census of Manufactures to study rural antebellum manufacturing in the South and Midwest, and find that manufacturing output per capita was similar across regions in counties specialized in the same agricultural products. The southern deficit in manufactures per capita appears...

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The Consequences of Invention Secrecy : Evidence from the USPTO Patent Secrecy Program in World War II

Gross, Daniel P. - 2019

compulsory invention secrecy reduced follow-on invention and restricted commercialization, but as part of the security policies … results shed light on the consequences of invention secrecy, which is widely used by inventors to protect and appropriate the …

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Patenting Inventions or Inventing Patents? Strategic Use of Continuations at the USPTO

Righi, Cesare - 2020

Continuations allow inventors to claim technology developed after the original filing date of their patent, leading to concerns about inadvertent infringement and hold-up. We use the link between patents and standards created by the disclosure of standard essential patents (SEPs) to analyze the...

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