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Big tech acquisitions and innovation : an empirical assessment
Barsy, Laureen de; Gautier, Axel - 2024
this analysis, we use patent citations as a proxy for the innovation effort by the acquirer. Our main result is to show … that acquisition increases the innovation effort of the acquirer but only temporarily. After 1.5 year, there is no longer a … significant impact of the acquisition on the acquirer’s innovation effort. This decline is relatively larger when the acquired …
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Product patents and access to innovative medicines in a post-trips-era
Watal, Jayashree; Dai, Rong - 2019 - Manuscript date: 28 March 2019
This WTO working paper studies availability and affordability of new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era. The WTO's TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS) makes it obligatory for WTO members − except least-developed country members (LDCs) - to provide pharmaceutical product patents with a...
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Product Patents and Access to Innovative Medicines in a Post TRIPS Era
Watal, Jayashree; DAI, Rong - 2019
This paper examines access to new and innovative pharmaceuticals in a post-TRIPS era. The WTO’s TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS) makes it obligatory for WTO members – except least-developed country members (LDCs) - to provide pharmaceutical product patents with a 20-year protection term. Developing...
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Standards, Intellectual Property Rights, and Strategic Patenting : Evidence from the IETF
Wen, Wen - 2016
How does the development of formal standards for information and communication technologies shape the behavior of firms that may need the technologies to develop new products and services? We argue that standardization lowers the search costs of identifying important intellectual property rights...
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Standards, Intellectual Property Rights, and Strategic Patenting : Evidence from the IETF
Wen, Wen - 2015
How does the development of formal standards for information and communication technologies shape the behavior of firms that may need the technologies to develop new products and services? We argue that standardization lowers the search costs of identifying important intellectual property rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032235
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Strategic Patenting and Software Innovation
Noel, Michael D. - 2015
cumulative innovation. This paper studies the effects of strategic patenting on Ramp;D, patenting and market value in the … find evidence that both strategic patenting and Ramp;D spillovers strongly affect innovation and market value of software …
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Sources and characteristics of software patents in the European Union: some empirical considerations
Rentocchini, Francesco - Dipartimento di Economia e Management, Università … - 2010
This work provides a deeper account of an increasing phenomenon characterising the European Union in recent years, i.e. software patenting. To this purpose we present a novel database of software patents providing a reliability check. According to that, more than 30 000 software patents have...
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Finding the Point of Novelty in Software Patents
Chao, Bernard - 2013
The issue of patentable subject matter eligibility is in considerable flux. In 2012, the Supreme Court set forth a confusing new framework for determining patent eligibility. The decision in Mayo v. Prometheus cast serious doubt on the continued viability of many software patents. Indeed, a...
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Innovation Through Optimal Licensing in Free Markets and Free Software
Parker, Geoffrey; Van Alstyne, Marshall W. - 2015
innovation are both possible. For private firms, we model a variety of possible business models from completely closed to fully … open, and find that opening a platform can increase profits based on network effects exclusively, innovation exclusively …, or both. A firm's ability to control downstream innovation gives it reaon to rationally behave more like a social planner …
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Global technology cycles and local economic performance
Heinrich, Sebastian; Sarferaz, Samad; Wörter, Martin - 2023
This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...
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