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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
Such institutions as patent systems cannot be well understood without an assessment of technological creativity in other contexts. Some have argued that prizes might offer superior alternatives to the award of property rights in inventions. Accordingly, this paper offers an empirical comparison...
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China and India as Suppliers of Affordable Medicines to Developing Countries
Hafner, Tamara - 2014
pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … China are not only important sources of inexpensive medicines but also have an indirect effect by lowering prices through …
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Trading and Enforcing Patent Rights
Galasso, Alberto - 2011
We study how the market for innovation affects enforcement of patent rights. Conventional wisdom associates the gains from trade with comparative advantage in manufacturing or marketing. We show that these gains imply that patent transactions should increase litigation risk. We identify a new...
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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
In a model of industry standard setting with private information about firms' intellectual property, we analyze (a) firms' incentives to contribute to the development and improvement of a standard, and (b) firms' decision to disclose the existence of relevant intellectual property to other...
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The Choice between Formal and Informal Intellectual Property : A Literature Review
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014
We survey the economic literature, both theoretical and empirical, on the choice of intellectual property protection by firms. Our focus is on the tradeoffs between using patents and disclosing versus the use of secrecy, although we also look briefly at the use of other means of formal...
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Are National Patent Laws the Blossoming Rain?
Qian, Yi - 2014
Research on the effects of patent protection on innovation and technology transfer in the cross-country pharmaceutical industry adds to our understanding of the underlying forces driving a country's innovation level. Qian (2007) constructs a comprehensive database useful for evaluating the...
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The Patent Troll : Benign Middleman or Stick-Up Artist?
Abrams, David - 2019
How do non-practicing entities ("Patent Trolls") impact innovation and technological progress? Although this question has important implications for industrial policy, little direct evidence about it exists. This paper provides new theoretical and empirical evidence to fill that gap. In the...
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O.; Cockburn, Iain M. - 2021
Since the late 1980s the global intellectual property rights (IPR) system has been strengthening dramatically as much of the developing world introduces patent protection for new drug products. This may lead to more research on drugs to address developing country needs. As there are identifiable...
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150 Years of Patent Protection
Lerner, Josh - 2021
This paper examines three sets of explanations for variations in the strength of patent protection across sixty countries and a 150-year period. Wealthier nations are more likely to have patent systems, to allow patentees a longer time to put their patents into practice, and to ratify treaties...
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