The objective of this paper is to show the necessity of reviving the debate on the economic justifications for patent … patent protection, and on the other hand, we believe that major changes to the patent law should be considered. Critical … review of the discussion on patents shows that the weaknesses of many arguments for patent protection, as well as the …

This paper describes how we constructed a real-time database for the euro area covering more than 200 series regularly … before their first meeting of the month. We describe the database in details and study the properties of the euro area real …

. Die so erarbeitete schulrechtliche Datenbank ist über einen Zeitraum von zehn Jahren entstanden und wird fortlaufend … wird auch, welche interdisziplinären Forschungsfragen mithilfe der Datenbank untersucht werden können, wie sie zukünftig …. Th e database has been developed over a period of 10 years and is continuously updated. It can be used to analyse changes …

all of Iceland’s health records into a central electronic database. Decode Genetics fought two rounds with the informal …

the primary patent covering an innovation and whether the innovating firm's licenses its innovation or raises external … finance at certain stages of the firm/product's development, and thereby enable the firm to delay licensing, obtaining patent … effects from the empirical analysis, the theory suggests that patent filing may act as a signal to financial investors that …

This paper analyzes the effect of an increase in patent scope on R&D and innovation. It presents a model where patent … duplication of R&D. The model predicts that an increase in patent scope can increase the probability of innovation if the … technology. However, when the model is extended to Stackelberg competition or licensing, the benefit of a broad patent scope to a …