Under certain conditions it is optimal for the noninnovating south to give patent protection for a longer time period … than the innovating north. A cooperative patent agreement involves a larger protection by each country compared to the non …

data for patents granted by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a UN organization to map national … innovations. Rather than analyzing in which fields, or sectors, patents are granted, which would meet with all the drawbacks that … patents have as an indicator for innovation the authors use different information that can be drawn from patents. …

data for 2001-2010. In a milieu where most firms do not patent, the concern was whether ‘small’ innovations would be …

to structure interactions among people, such as land titles, patents, and social norms. The central task of reducing …

Patents and patent applications are important indicators of innovative activity in industrial R & D, especially in … patents for Internet-related technologies where patenting is often the only way by which entry-barriers can be erected against … competitors. This paper presents the analysis of Internet-related patent applications that have been filed under the Paris …