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. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for …
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Firm-to-firm relationships in global value chains create opportunities for North-South technology diffusion. This paper studies technology transfer in value chains when contracts are incomplete and input production technologies are imperfectly excludable. The paper introduces a new taxonomy of...
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This paper analyzes the optimal protection strategy for an innovator of a complex innovation who faces the risk of imitation by a competitor. We suppose that the innovation can be continuously fragmented into sub-innovations. We characterize the optimal mix of patent and trade secrets when the...
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On May 30, 2017, the Supreme Court held that the initial authorized sale of a patented item within or outside the U.S. "exhausts" all rights of the patentee to that item under the Patent Act. This decision goes against the Government's position that a foreign sale authorized by the U.S. patentee...
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university patents are more readable. Combining the multiple measures using principal component analysis, we find that the gap in … patents become less readable is use of multiple examples to mask the "best mode" of inventions. By confirming that … computational linguistic measures are useful indicators of readability of patents, we suggest that the disclosure function of …
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linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team … is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation … is weak. We also connect collaborative patents to the ethnic composition of the firm's U.S. inventors and cross …
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markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …
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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 … reduces the incentives to exert effort in R&D activities. Then, drawing on the signaling role of patents highlighted by the …
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innovation. We associate the strength of IPR protection with the duration of a country's patents that are applied with national … are patents longer in the North? We also study international patent agreements by deriving the properties of an efficient …
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