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Piracy and competition
Belleflamme, Paul; Picard, Pierre M. - 2004
The effects of (private, small-scale) piracy on the pricing behavior of producers of information goods are studied within a unified model of vertical differentiation. Although information goods are assumed to be perfectly horizontally differentiated, demands are interdependent because the...
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The valuation of moral rights: A field experiment
Bechtold, Stefan; Engel, Christoph - 2017
U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …
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Digital design protection in Europe: Law, trends, and emerging issues
Filitz, Rainer; Henkel, Joachim; Ohnemus, Jörg - 2017
a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject matter, a European perspective is still lacking in the literature …
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Interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and its relevance to the implementation of the WTO Agreements
Wu, Xiaoping - 2017
The interplay between patents and standards in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has been intensively debated at international, regional and national levels over the past decades. In essence, the debate is firstly about the extent and impact of patent holdup and holdout...
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Big patents, small secrets: how firms protect inventions when R&D outcome is heterogeneous
Mosel, Malte - 2011
Patents have long been regarded as the 'gold standard' of intellectual property protection. In 'Little patents and big secrets: managing intellectual property', Anton and Yao (2004) call this traditional view into question by finding that firms keep their most important innovations secret. This...
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The role of patents and secrecy for intellectual property protection: theory and evidence
Mosel, Malte - 2012
Traditionally patents are seen as the gold standard for intellectual property protection. But, in line with empirical findings that secrecy is considered more important for appropriating returns, recent theories predict that firms keep their most important inventions secret. This article...
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Auf dem Weg zu einem Urheberrecht für das 21. Jahrhundert: Ideen für eine zukünftige Regulierung kreativer Güter
Kreutzer, Till - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 10, pp. 699-705
The article describes the challenges of copyright protection in the digital world. Starting from the observation that … copyright is one of the most disputed regulative systems in the 21st century, it analyses the reasons for the intensity of the … impact copyright law has undergone since computers and Internet access found their way into almost every household. What was …
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Patent litigation in Europe
Cremers, Katrin; Ernicke, Max; Gaessler, Fabian; … - 2013
We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...
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Technology entry in the presence of patent thickets
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian; von Graevenitz, Georg - 2016
We analyze the effect of patent thickets on entry into technology areas by firms in the UK. We present a model that describes incentives to enter technology areas characterized by varying technological opportunity, complexity of technology, and the potential for hold-up in patent thickets. We...
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Patents: A Means to Innovation or Strategic Ends?
Schwarz, Jiri; Stepanek, Martin - 2016
This paper utilizes a data set of over 208,000 U.S. patents applied for between 1975 and 2010 to study development of strategic patenting over time and across industries. With received citations as a measure of patent social value, we use data envelopment analysis to estimate firm-level relative...
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