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Kochugovindan, Sree; Lawson, Jeremy - 2023

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Patent screening, innovation, and welfare

Schankerman, Mark; Schütt, Florian - 2020

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The patent troll : benign middleman or stick-up artist?

Abrams, David S.; Akcigit, Ufuk; Oz, Gokhan; Pearce, Jeremy - 2019

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Acquisition for sleep

Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Olofsson, Charlotta; Persson, Lars - 2020

Within the policy debate, there is a fear that large incumbent firms buy small firms' inventions to ensure that they are not used in the market. We show that such "acquisitions for sleep" can occur if and only if the quality of a process invention is small; otherwise, the entry profit will be...

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How antitrust enforcement can spur innovation : bell labs and the 1956 consent decree

Watzinger, Martin; Fackler, Thomas; Nagler, Markus; … - 2017

harmful for innovation and if so, whether compulsory licensing can provide an effective remedy. The consent decree settled an … to license all its existing patents royalty-free. The compulsory licensing increased follow-on innovation building on … Bell patents by 17%. This effect is driven mainly by young and small companies. Yet, innovation increased only outside the …

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Patent breadth in an international setting

Bond, Eric W.; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2017

We examine the Nash equilibria of a game where two national governments set patent breadth strategically. Broader patents make R&D more attractive, but the effect on static efficiency is nonmonotonic. In a North.South model, where only the North can innovate, harmonization of patent breadth...

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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector

Gamba, Simona - 2016

This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …

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The disciplinary effect of post-grant review : causal evidence from European patent opposition

Nagler, Markus; Sorg, Stefan - 2019

We study the causal impact of invalidating marginally valid patents during post-grant opposition at the European Patent Office on affected inventors' subsequent patenting. We exploit exogenous variation in invalidation by leveraging the participation of a patent's original examiner in the...

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Cumulative innovation, growth and welfare-improving patent policy

Chor, Davin; Lai, Edwin L.-C. - 2013

We construct a tractable general equilibrium model of cumulative innovation and growth, in which new ideas strictly … the rate of innovation, as well as a separate optimal required inventive step that maximizes welfare, with the former …

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Property rights for innovation : a structural model of patent screening

Matcham, William; Schankerman, Mark - 2023

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