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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
domestically filed patent applications in 2011, the quality of these patents needs improvement. Also, while certain innovation in … least partially meant to encourage patents, that can actually discourage quality patents, and highest-quality patents in … disputes that can hamper building of quality patents and innovation in China. These include concerns about abuse of patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258189
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Institutionalized Incentives for Ingenuity – Patent Value and the German Employees’ Inventions Act
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Germany is one of few countries in which the monetary compensation for inventors is not only determined by negotiations between employer and employee-inventor, but also by relatively precise legal provisions. In this paper, we describe the characteristics of the German Employees’ Inventions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005121186
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The benefits of international standards in the awarding of genetic patents - A comparative analysis between the EU and Japan
Gilroy, Bernard Michael; Vollpert, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
consistent standards for patents in the area of genetic engineering, are only scarcely reasonable. Due to national distinctions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472247
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Patents versus patenting: implications of intellectual property protection for biological research
Lei, Zhen; Juneja, Rakhi; Wright, Brian D - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
A new survey shows scientists consider the proliferation of intellectual property protectionto have a strongly negative effect on research.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371821
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Evolving Towards the Enclosure of the ‘Intangible Commons’?
Escalona Reynoso, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Advancements in the areas of Information Technologies (IT) and the New Life Sciences (NLS) are helping redefine the boundaries of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). Although the fast growth of these technological areas may very well be fueled by the existence of the IPR system itself, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258318
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Economic Recognition of Innovation
Rao, Balkrishna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Globalization has benefited the economies of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) by helping their businesses stay profitable through cost-effective outsourcing of mostly garden-variety tasks and some knowledge-based activities. With time, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621804
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Licensing probabilistic Patents and Liability Rules: The Duopoly case
Vargas Barrenechea, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper a game is used to compare the licensing of a cost reduction innovations under lost profits (LP) and unjust enrichment (UE), both damage rules that are used by courts in the calculation of damages when a patent has been infringed. The market is composed by two homogeneous firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034377
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Explaining the Patenting Propensity: A Regional Analysis using EPO-OECD Data
Cozza, Claudio; Schettino, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The aim of this paper is to study empirically the patenting propensity at the European regional level. To do that we use the OECD-REGPAT dataset, that includes patent applications made by European inventors and applicants to EPO in the time-span 1978-2011. Explanatory variables on R&D and human...
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To Be Financed or Not... - The Role of Patents for Venture Capital Financing
Haeussler, Caroline; Harhoff, Dietmar; Müller, Elisabeth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents … British biotechnology companies we have identified all patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO). Applying hazard rate … attention to patent quality, financing those ventures faster which later turn out to have high-quality patents. Patent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005785936
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Patents in Theory and Practice: Empirical Results from Switzerland
Harabi, Najib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1996
appropriation. 2)For both product and process innovations, patents are the least effective means of appropriation. In general …, patents are viewed by R&D managers as an effective means of protecting the competitive advantages of new technolgy in the … around" is seen as the most important constraint on the effectiveness of patents. …
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