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An Empirical Examination of Patent Hold-up
Galetovic, Alexander; Levine, Ross; Haber, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A large literature asserts that standard essential patents (SEPs) allow their owners to “hold up” innovation by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252669
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Copyright and the Profitability of Authorship: Evidence from Payments to Writers in the Romantic Period
MacGarvie, Megan; Moser, Petra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Proponents of stronger copyright terms have argued that stronger copyright terms encourage creativity by increasing the profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of authorship is typically not available to the public. Moreover at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011264932
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H; Harhoff, Dietmar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence … on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and … software and business method patents, university patenting, and the growth in patent litigation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421975
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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property: A Literature Review
Hall, Bronwyn H; Helmers, Christian; Rogers, Mark; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011227905
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology: Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H; Helmers, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators … innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other patents in the same technologies or held by the same multinationals, we … of climate change related technologies. This study, therefore, indirectly provides evidence on the role of patents in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008927017
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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 - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation …. The data set comprises a sample of patents, as well as exhibits and prizes at annual industrial fairs in Massachusetts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096584
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Efficiency Advantages of Grandfathering in Rights-Based Fisheries Management
Libecap, Gary D.; Anderson, Terry L.; Arnason, Ragnar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We show that grandfathering fishing rights to local users or recognizing first possessions is more dynamically efficient than auctions of such rights. It is often argued that auctions allocate rights to the highest-valued users and thereby maximize resource rents. We counter that rents are not...
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Rewards versus Intellectual Property Rights
Shavell, Steven; Ypersele, Tanguy van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
This paper compares reward systems to intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights). Under a reward system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005720847
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The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier
Alston, Lee J.; Libecap, Gary D.; Schneider, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
This paper provides new empirical results regarding the demand and supply of title, its impact on land value, and its effects on agricultural investment on Brazilian frontiers. We use survey data from 1992 and 1993 from the state of Par  with data on the characteristics of the settlers, land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575833
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Consent and Exchange
Bebchuk, Lucian; Bar-Gill, Oren - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
In some cases, the law permits a party that unilaterally provides a benefit to another party to recover the estimated value of this benefit. Despite calls for expanding the set of cases to which such a restitution rule applies, the law commonly applies a mutual consent rule under which a party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005580777