technology/innovation indicators to arrive at our list of "technologically proficient" developing countries (TPDC); countries …

. Although patent pools and copyright collectives differ in purpose, membership size and market conditions, their efficiency …This paper analyzes and compares two types of cooperative agreements that combine Intellectual Property (IP): patent … pools and copyright collectives. I evaluate antitrust policy in three environments in which owners of the intellectual …

where that permission stops. This paper argues that, under the current policies regarding copyright protection and …

Concerns have been raised that the upsurge of 3D printing technology would disrupt the patent system. The central … us to rethink patent law. The paper splits up this question by looking at two facets in more depth – patentability and …/consumers). The paper concludes that the wide uptake of 3D printing does not fundamentally challenge the premises of patent law. 3D …

Using an original dataset of over 1,000,000 patents and empirical methods, we find that the patent system perpetuates … research and development expenditures, while those already holding many patents increase their innovation efforts. This … barriers to entry (e.g., licensing costs or potential litigation).A hallmark of this type of behavior is securing large patent …