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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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3D Printing and Patent Law : A Disruptive Technology Disrupting Patent Law?
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2017
adequacy of current enforcement tools and strategies. A lack of adequate enforcement tools might well undermine the innovation …
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Incentive for Innovation and the Optimal Allocation of Patents
Hamada, Kojun - 2017
incentives for innovation by applying a property rights approach. We explore a model in which two research laboratories invest in …
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Inventing Inclusive Patents. From Old to New Open Innovation
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2015
Open innovation is the subject of increased scholarly debate. A lot of attention has thereby been paid to firm …-centered open innovation, characterized by a for-profit motive and the interplay between patents and contracts, resulting in … communities the present paper examines how the law can assist in establishing a new approach to open innovation (‘new' open …
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A Natural Experiment on Innovation Without Patents
Torrance, Andrew W. - 2015
Innovation occurs within ... …
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The Innovation Consequences of Mandatory Patent Disclosures
Kim, Jinhwan - 2020
We investigate the effect of patent disclosures on corporate innovation. Using the American Inventor's Protection Act … (AIPA) as a shock that increased patent disclosures, we find an increase in innovation for firms whose rivals reveal more … information after the AIPA and a decrease in innovation for firms whose own disclosures are divulged to competitors as a result of …
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The Role of Patent Law in Knowledge Codification
Burk, Dan L. - 2015
Recent studies of knowledge production have increasingly recognized the role of codified knowledge in the operation of social organizations. Much of the knowledge resident in organizations exists as tacit knowledge, that is, as knowledge that goes unrecorded. Typically such knowledge is carried...
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Smart Innovation and Inclusive Patents for Sustainable Food and Health Care : Redefining the Europe 2020 Objectives
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2015
Various remedies have been suggested to deal with potential hindering effects of patents in the area of plant and human biotechnology – two areas which show remarkable linkages and share similar problems. What many of these suggestions have in common, is their call for a more responsible...
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Appropriability and the Timing of Innovation : Evidence from Mit Inventions
Dechenaux, Emmanuel; Goldfarb, Brent; Thursby, Marie C.; … - 2015
innovation. This belief was a key principle underlying the Bayh-Dole Act, which gave universities the right to own and license …
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Gene Patents and Collaborative Licensing Models : Patent Pools, Clearinghouses, Open Source Models and Liability Regimes
Van Overwalle, Geertrui - 2015
Concerns have been expressed that gene patents might result in restricted access to research and health care. The exponential growth of patents claiming human DNA sequences might result in patent thickets, royalty stacking and, ultimately, a ‘tragedy of the anti-commons’ in genetics. The...
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