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Intellectual Property Rights and North-South Trade
Chin, Judith C.; Grossman, Gene M. - 2021
We study the incentive that a government in the South has to protect the intellectual property rights of Northern firms, and the consequences of the decision taken by the South for welfare in the North and for efficiency of the world equilibrium. We conduct our analysis in the context of a...
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O.; Cockburn, Iain M. - 2021
might enhance, or dampen, a firm's responsiveness to the availability of product patents. The picture presented here …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222046
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The Role of Patent Protection in (Clean/Green) Technology Transfer
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115728
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Patent Laws and Innovation : Evidence from Economic History
Moser, Petra - 2014
What is the optimal system of intellectual property rights to encourage innovation? Empirical evidence from economic history can help to inform important policy questions that have been difficult to answer with modern data: 1) Does the existence of strong patent laws encourage innovation? And 2)...
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Patent Disclosure in Standard Setting
Ganglmair, Bernhard - 2014
setting that implies a waiver of intellectual property rights if patents are not disclosed timely, firms aspire to disclose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066245
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Growth and Intellectual Property
Boldrin, Michele - 2007
Intellectual property (IP) protection involves a trade-off between the undesirability of monopoly and the desirable encouragement of creation and innovation. Optimal policy depends on the quantitative strength of these two forces. We give a quantitative assessment of current IP policies. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778117
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Parallel Imports and Price Controls
Grossman, Gene M. - 2006
Price controls create opportunities for international arbitrage. Many have argued that such arbitrage, if tolerated, will undermine intellectual property rights and dull the incentives for investment in research-intensive industries such as pharmaceuticals. We challenge this orthodox view and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779605
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The Patent Troll : Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?
Abrams, David - 2019
-derived patent and financial data, as well as a novel model that guides our data analysis. We find that NPEs acquire patents from … license patents, those that generate higher fees are closer to the licensee's business and more likely to be litigated. We … also find that downstream innovation drops in fields where patents have been acquired by NPEs. Finally, our numerical …
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Intellectual Property Rights, the Pool of Knowledge, and Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014
The pace of innovation is related both to the level of investment in innovation and the pool of knowledge from which innovators can draw. Both of these are endogenous: Investments in innovations are affected by the pool of knowledge and the ability of firms to appropriate the returns to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056191
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Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System : Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison of patents in relation to the award of prizes for technological innovation …. The data set comprises a sample of patents, as well as exhibits and prizes at annual industrial fairs in Massachusetts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040534