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creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …
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principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic creativity (focusing on patent and … problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and copyright law and direct consumer protection statutes and … copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace (trademark protection and unfair competition law …
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Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...
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Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I address the positive question of when countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as domestic inventors, and how their incentive to do so...
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Intellectual property treaties create two types of obligations: for national treatment of foreign inventors and for certain harmonized protections. I investigate both the incentive to join such treaties and the incentive to harmonize. As compared to an equilibrium in which the countries' policy...
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Intellectual property treaties have two main types of provisions: national treatment of foreign inventors, and harmonization of protections. I characterize the circumstances in which countries would want to treat foreign inventors the same as national inventors. I then argue that national...
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. We argue that the patent rule is inferior. First, the threat of entry by independent invention would induce patentholders … invention would reduce the wasteful duplication of R&D effort that occurs in patent races. In either case, the threat of …
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