Zaby, Alexandra K.; Heger, Diana - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
of critical knowledge. Given that a patent specification has to include a clear description of the patented matter so … that anybody skilled in the art is enabled to reproduce the invention, the non-disclosure intention seems contradictory to … patent law. This paper provides a model identifying the incentives for firms to deliberately obscure their inventive …