The strengthening of the U.S. patent regime in the early eighties was followed by a sharp increase in patenting and a … rather small increase in the in Ramp;D expenditure in some industries in the U.S. This patent paradox is prominently observed … number of ideas to successfully develop a final product. In this paper I examine the effects of a change in the patent regime …

We analyze optimal patent design when innovators can rely on secrecy to protect their innovations. Secrecy provides a … temporary monopoly, which terminates when the secret leaks out or the innovation is duplicated. We find conditions under which … the optimal policy is to induce the first innovator to patent. Furthermore, we derive the optimal scope of the rights …

Patent trolls appropriate innovation rents by threatening to block other players’ R&D-related value creation. Legal … manufacturers, we show that this is not the case. Patent extortion will remain viable in technologically crowded industries as long … patent trolls, and discuss adjustments to their R&D strategies regarding product design, interaction with trolls …

This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … recent research using patent data, focusing on major developments since Griliches in 1990 [Griliches, Z. (1990). “Patent … availability of patent data on an increasingly global scale and the accompanying global spread of research using patent data. The …

find a link between patent propensity, R&D and innovation performance. Descriptive analyses show that Polish manufacturing … increase in patent propensity affects the firm's innovation performancepositively. …This paper tries to find how firms use IPRs in the form of patents to protect innovation capital and find determinants …

property. It is organized around the two principal objectives of intellectual property law: promoting innovation and aesthetic … creativity (focusing on patent, trade secret, and copyright protection) and protecting integrity of the commercial marketplace … protection and other means of addressing the economic problem (such as public funding and prizes in the case of patent and …

. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted domestic patents filed at the European Patent Office (EPO): to account for … to patent at the EPO. Results show that, in the short-run, IPR stimulate innovation. The effect for developing countries …This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

-competitive patent settlements and hold-ups in relation to standard setting processes, in addition to the modern focus on mergers that … potentially lessen incentives for innovation and on abuse of dominance/single firm exclusionary practices in IP-intensive network … importance for economic advancement and prosperity, having a direct bearing on innovation, growth and the diffusion of new …