Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual … property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational … enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit of the patent box by historical IP ownership. On average …

lower than the social planner's benchmark, which suggests a role for patent policy. We focus on a “non-infringing inventive … instrument in the form of patent length policy …

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader … North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth lowers welfare relative to the Nash equilibrium. When both countries can … innovate, harmonization toward narrower patent breadth may raise world welfare …

This paper develops a model of patent trolls to understand various litigation strategies employed by nonpracticing …

patentability standards at PTOs (Patent and Trademark Offices awarding so-called bad patents), not only “false innovators” have the … chance of being granted patents but also, and more interestingly, “true innovators” are forced to patent more intensively … distortions caused by bad patents. Moreover, we show that introducing a two-tiered patent system is unlikely to improve market …